Beliefs
Twelve articles, adopted in 1969, are presented by the fellowship as their statement of faith on the following issues - the Bible, God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Man, Salvation, the Church, the Christian life, Ordinances, Satan, Second Coming, and Future Life. The Grace Brethren at one time were considered to be more Calvinistic than the Ashland Brethren, but there is a growing cooperation emerging in recent years between the Grace and Ashland groups. They are generally dispensational, and pretribulational in eschatology.
Grace Brethren International Missions, CE National, Brethren Missionary Herald Company and Women of Grace USA are ministries formed by the FGBC to help fulfill their mission of making Jesus known. Grace College and Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana is associated with the FGBC. Though its students do not all belong to FGBC churches, Grace does offer scholarships to FGBC students who meet academic standards. Grace College is also now offering a three-year accelerated degree option that will allow students to get a Bachelor's degree in three years or a Bachelor's and Master's in four years As part of its redesigned curriculum, Grace College is placing a heavy emphasis on applied learning experiences, such as internships. Many ministry-minded Grace students do internships and volunteer work in FGBC churches. FGBC headquarters are maintained in Winona Lake, and the annual conference is held there. Today (2003) the Fellowship of Grace Brethren is made up of over 265 churches in the United States and Canada, with a membership of over 30,000. There are 23 districts cooperating with the Fellowship, and over 1100 churches have been formed outside North America. Worldwide attendance in Grace Brethren Churches is estimated to be 600,000 people.
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Famous quotes containing the word beliefs:
“Airplanes are invariably scheduled to depart at such times as 7:54, 9:21 or 11:37. This extreme specificity has the effect on the novice of instilling in him the twin beliefs that he will be arriving at 10:08, 1:43 or 4:22, and that he should get to the airport on time. These beliefs are not only erroneous but actually unhealthy.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted—Pound’s, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot’s with beliefs. Where the mind’s life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.”
—R.P. Blackmur (1904–1965)
“The methodological advice to interpret in a way that optimizes agreement should not be conceived as resting on a charitable assumption about human intelligence that might turn out to be false. If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)