Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
General Six-Principle Baptists embrace the six principles in (Hebrews 6:1-2) which lists Repentance, Faith, Baptisms, Laying on of hands, Resurrection, and Judgment to be considered as foundational concepts.
The General Association of Regular Baptist Churches is a national and an international network of independent churches. This network of independent churches share the same common practices which include fellowship, witness, convictions and ministry.
The National Association of Free Will Baptists is a group of churches that share a common history, name and accept the Arminian theology rather than the usual Calvinistic predestination doctrine. The Arminian theology is based on the belief of general atonement, the theory of free will, free grace, and free salvation.
The Friends (Quakers) spread their commitment of pacifism and denunciation of slavery throughout the American colonies. They were responsible for a variety of social reforms, even after the American Revolution, such as abolition, temperance, the women’s movement, education, prison reforms, the rights of the Indians as well are the freedmen’s right.
The Free Methodist Church of North America is more conservative among the larger bodies of American Methodism. They are conservative in doctrine and their standards of Christian practices. They follow the Wesleyan standards of the church and call for the return to primitive Wesleyan teaching.
The Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches is an evangelical Christian denomination with the heritage of the Anabaptist Mennonites. They are a fellowship of Churches committed to the New Testament. They keep to their Biblical foundation in faith and in practice and believe the Bible is inspired, inerrant and the authoritative Word of God.
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church is a Bible believing Presbyterian denomination. They are committed to the Westminster Standards. They are a family of the American churches, reformed and Presbyterian.
The Evangelical Methodist Church is a denomination of progressive churches that are built on a sound Biblical base. They started as a conservative and evangelical church.
The Evangelical Mennonite Church is a fundamental and evangelical denomination of Christians with a Mennonite heritage.The Evangelical Mennonite Church has considered merging with other denominations.