15 Facts About Evangelical Protestant

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Evangelical Protestant churches have been involved in the establishment of elementary and secondary schools.

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Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Churches of Christ, Plymouth Brethren, charismatic Protestant, and nondenominational Protestant traditions have all had strong influence within contemporary evangelicalism.

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Term "Open Evangelical Protestant" refers to a particular Christian school of thought or churchmanship, primarily in Great Britain .

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4.

Evangelical Protestant described receiving assurance of God's grace after a period of fasting, self-examination, and despair over his sins.

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Evangelical Protestant preachers emphasized personal salvation and piety more than ritual and tradition.

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Evangelical Protestant clergy networked together through societies such as the Eclectic Society in London and the Elland Society in Yorkshire.

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In Nigeria the Evangelical Protestant Church Winning All is the largest church organization with five thousand congregations and over three million members.

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In Kenya, mainstream Evangelical Protestant denominations have taken the lead in promoting political activism and backers, with the smaller Evangelical Protestant sects of less importance.

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Daniel arap Moi was president 1978 to 2002 and claimed to be an Evangelical Protestant; he proved intolerant of dissent or pluralism or decentralization of power.

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10.

In Mozambique, Evangelical Protestant Christianity emerged around 1900 from black migrants whose converted previously in South Africa.

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11.

Evangelical Protestant denominations saw a rapid growth in their number of followers since the last decades of the 20th century.

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12.

Evangelical Protestant escalated the war against leftist guerrilla insurgents as a holy war against atheistic "forces of evil".

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The Evangelical Protestant Alliance, formed in 1846, was the first ecumenical evangelical body in the world and works to unite evangelicals, helping them listen to, and be heard by, the government, media and society.

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Recurrent themes within American Evangelical Protestant discourse include abortion, evolution denial, secularism, and the notion of the United States as a Christian nation.

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Particularly controversial doctrine within the Evangelical Protestant Churches is that of prosperity theology, which spread in the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, mainly through Pentecostal and charismatic televangelists.

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