Talk:Alliance World Fellowship

Pre-millenial?

In the listing of beliefs, it states The Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is imminent and will be personal, visible, and premillennial. This is the believer's hope and is a vital truth that is an incentive to holy living and faithful service. What does "premillennial" mean? Is that before the turn of the next millenium? --Habap 21:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Premillenialism is a view of the end-times that essentially states that Christ will return for believers before the thousand-year reign spoken of in the book of Revelation. See Premillennialism. raekwon 23:05, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Prominent Members

How do we decide who a prominent member is? Specifically why is Cam Ward on the list? --Josephus78 03:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Because he's a professional sports player? -- JHunterJ 10:59, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

More justification needs to be given for inclusion Brent Jesko as a prominent member.Josephus78 23:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Can someone please post some sort of confirmation that the three hockey players are in fact members or adherents of Alliance churches? I've tried unsuccessfully to find any mention of what church any of them belong to. I'd really like this to be true, but I'm beginning to think it's not. - Ed

Yeah, and what's with Alliance members being hockey players anyway (or is it vice-versa)?--Midnite Critic 19:30, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to start removing unverfied pominent member entries soon, in accordance with the policy on verifiability - Ed

Some sources say Jon Lynn Christensen is a member[1][2], but others seem to contradict that. Anyone know?--T. Anthony (talk) 04:25, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Ummm, the one C&MA church I've been to claimed to have successfully converted the chief of the Saudi secret police and the foreign minister of Uzbekistan. While I'm sure they do have famous and important followers, I'd take their claims on the matter with a grain of salt... 213.181.226.21 (talk) 14:00, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Redlinked "prominent members" removed

I removed these redlinked entries. Joie de Vivre ^T 12:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

List

• Ethel Bell, missionary, survived 20 days with her two children in the North Atlantic after the West Lashaway was sunk by a German U-boat
• Lorna Dueck, host of Listen Up TV
• Howard O. Jones, Billy Graham's first African-American evangelist, author
• Reuben Larson, co-founder of HCJB
• David Paul Rader, evangelist, Christian radio pioneer, and C&MA president

Polity

As far as I can tell, the polity of the C&MA is fairly unique (although that of such denominations as the Assemblies of God and the Church of the Nazarene are similar), containing elements of Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, and (non-sacramental)"Episcopacy". If anyone would like a source for this change, see the following How We are Organized from the C&MA website. --Midnite Critic 01:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

In my experience, their orientation is fundamentalist more than anything else, in the variation that's rather rigidly exclusive towards other Christian denominations. They seem more interested in competing for followers with Catholics, liberal Protestants and rival evangelical missionary sects, than in actually bringing anyone "to Christ". The vast majority of their missionaries are sent to Latin America, the Philippines, Europe and other places that are already overwhelmingly Christian, while virtually ignoring the entire Arab world which is overwhelmingly Muslim. Not sure if or how that helps situate them on the religious spectrum, but it shows they do indeed have a "fairly unique" approach to their "missionary" work. 213.181.226.21 (talk) 13:52, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, but I'm not sure how that relates to C&MA polity. As a counterpoint, many such bodies indeed proselytize among Roman Catholics, Orthodox, and liberal Protestants. However, at the same time, the C&MA does work with like-minded "evangelical missionary sects", such as the Assemblies of God and Youth with a Mission. --Midnite Critic (talk) 15:54, 16 June 2008 (UTC)