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The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship. Many such congregations identify themselves ...
International Churches of Christ. The International Churches of Christ ( ICOC) is a body of decentralized, co-operating, [6] religiously conservative and racially integrated [3] [7] Christian congregations. In March 2024, the ICOC numbered their members at 112,000. [3] A formal break was made from the Churches of Christ in 1993 with the ...
In the mid-1980s, McKean became leader of both Boston and Crossroads Movements, eventually splitting from mainstream Churches of Christ, to become the International Church of Christ (ICOC). The movement was first recognized as an independent religious group in 1992 when John Vaughn, a church growth specialist at Fuller Theological Seminary ...
The Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT) is a New Age religious organization founded in the United States in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. [1] The church is headquartered near Gardiner, Montana, and the church has local congregations in more than 20 countries. Influenced by Theosophy and I AM, the Church originated as The Summit Lighthouse ...
Peoples Temple. The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, [1] originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Founded by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana ...
The Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) is a Pentecostal church in the Aladura movement, which was founded by Samuel Oshoffa on 29 September 1947 in Porto-Novo, Benin. It has spread from West Africa to countries in Europe, such as Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom, but a number of its parishes are located in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos and Ogun State.
Church of Christ (Latter-day Saints) – the original church founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. on April 6, 1830. Pure Church of Christ – First schismatic sect in the Latter Day Saint movement, this denomination was organized in 1831 in Kirtland, Ohio, by Wycam Clark and Northrop Sweet and is now extinct. Church of Christ (Ezra Booth) – An ...
The Church of God and Saints of Christ is a Black Hebrew Israelite new religious group established in Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States, by William Saunders Crowdy in 1896. [2] William Crowdy began congregations in several cities in the Midwestern and Eastern United States, and sent an emissary to organize locations in at least six African ...