Not exact matches
When Methodism became a separate
denomination, this history of
evangelical worship carried over
into its services.
It lives today among heirs of Dutch Seceders and in some Scandinavian flowings
into the
Evangelical Covenant Church and the
Evangelical Free Church
denominations.
Earlier in our weekend symposium, an
Evangelical Protestant with strong localist tendencies had expressed a certain sort of jealousy for those of us whose
denominations operate on a parish model, for this, he thought, must make sinking roots
into one's church community far easier to do.
I would much rather see us continue to focus on the major issues of Reformed thought in an admittedly pluralistic
denomination than get
into the debates that seem inevitably to arise when
evangelicals have established their own «pure»
denominations.
Their book may not turn card - carrying members of mainline
denominations into Evangelicals, but it might begin to make them «wise as serpents.»