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To: big'ol_freeper
Interesting. What denotes a "bible" church (which accounts for half the cases)? From the list it appears to be mainly borderline cultish groups (polygamous mormon offshoots, Jim Jones style groups, etc.). I'm not surprised they have a high number of sex abuse cases (the more absolute one's power over the innocent...), but I question how much they reflect on mainline Protestant churches.
71 posted on 06/15/2002 6:09:47 PM PDT by pragmatic
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To: pragmatic
What denotes a "bible" church

Typically they are independent (self-planted, self-lead, and stand alone) non-denominational community churches with names like 'Church on the Way', '{your town} Community Church', 'River of Life Church', 'Living Word Church', etc...they are Christian churches that adhere primarily to scripture and not intsitutions or denominational doctrine. Their personality comes more from the senior pastor's style than from an affiliation with a denomination.

Small pentacostal, charismatic, evangelical, fundamental, denominations like "The Vineyard", Four Square, Bretheren, can also be considered 'bible' churches.

In all cases, they're independent with an emphasis, ostensibly, on teaching the entire bible as written, and not doctrine or denomination.

105 posted on 06/16/2002 5:12:57 AM PDT by Starwind
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