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The International Church of Christ didn't come from nowhere, although it sometimes looks
that way to unsuspecting people when a new ICC church is planted in their city or
community. The ICC itself largely ignores its roots -- current members rarely hear
anything about the group's history prior to the early 1990s, and earlier periods are almost
never discussed publicly by the leaders.
This can strike an observer as odd, because the story is worth telling, and hearing. The
International Church of Christ has grown from a single congregation with a few hundred
members in 1967 to a worldwide organization with over 300 local churches spread across
six continents and a membership of around 85,000 as of earlier this year. This is a record
most churches would be glad to point to.
Unfortunately, the story doesn't stop there. In its growth, the ICC has also left behind a lot
of people and churches on the way -- during a series of during a series of reconstructions,
exposure and disgrace of its founder for sexual improprieties, rejection by the church
which founded it, and (according to former members) sheer burnout from impossibly high
expectations and abusive treatment at the hands of the leaders. Two years ago at a
conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, one current ICC leader estimated that there
were two former members for each current member, which (if correct) would mean that
there are around 200,000 former members. Since the ICC at present does not consider
anyone who left it prior to around 1987 to be a former member, the actual number is
probably much higher.
The International Church of Christ came out of a mainstream American Protestant
denomination called the Church of Christ. The Churches of Christ have come to be called
the "mainline" Churches of Christ in the last ten or fifteen years to distinguish them from
the International Churches of Christ -- before that, both groups were just called Churches
of Christ.
The ICC was also influenced by the "Discipling" movement which started among the
Assemblies of God in the late 1950s, and to some extent by the general "Jesus People"
revival which accompanied the social upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the
United States.
This sounds like an odd combination to an outsider, but the rather rigid and legalistic
intellectual approach of the mainline Churches of Christ, with its emphasis on Scripture,
Scripture, and more Scripture complemented the more emotional Assemblies of God, who
valued the personal touch in spiritual development. While the early Crossroads movement
did not have direct contact with the Assemblies of God, the influence of such Assembly of
This paper elaborates on the diverse contributions peoples of African descent have made to the pluralistic religious landscape of America and replicates various passages from our textbook. It focuses on the personal narratives of non-religious to religious leaders—exemplifying their influence on the African American religious movement during slavery and the reconstruction of America. Each section represents different historical periods, regional variations, and non-Christian expressions of African-American religion.
The southern revivals settled the arrangements of authority some of them declared interest of some evangelicals to race and the bitterness of the slavery.During the 1830, the s...
They’re the group that pressed for a nationally recognized Columbus Day, which passed in 1938.
This event changed the role of American religion during the early nineteenth century. Non-traditional religions such as Mormonism resulted from this religious revival movement as well. The religious revivals that emphasized individual choice of humans over predestination of God continuously shook New England Calvinism. The “cult of Matthias” was unlike any other religious groups during the time period.
several preservation projects attributed to their club. The first was the fight against the Echo Park
This mass enterprise is reviewed through five traditions in the early nineteenth century: the Christian movement, the Methodists, the Baptists, the black churches, and the Mormons. Hatch explains that these major American movements were led by young men who shared “an ethic of unrelenting toil, a passion for expansion, a hostility to orthodox belief and style, a zeal for religious reconstruction, and a systematic plan to realize their ideals” (4). These leaders changed the scope of American Christianity by orientating toward democratic or populist ideals. Their movements offered both individual potential and collective aspiration, which were ideas ready to be grasped by the young and booming population. These early leaders had a vision of a faith that disregarded social standing, and taught all to think, interpret, and organize their faith for themselves. It was a faith of “religious populism, reflecting the passions of ordinary people and the charisma of democratic movement-builders” (5).
meetings at churches and preach sometimes at the cost of their lives. Quakers had many
In America during the 1970s, society had changed enormously since the 1800s. In the third
One of the main waves of music of the time was a calmer more gentle rock. A major band called The Beatles were so popular during this time it was called Beatle Mania. The Beatles were one of the numerous bands coming to America either many more would coming getting the title of the British invasion. During the 1960s America’s economy was greatly increasing. This time period focused on the housing and computer industry which overpowered automobiles, chemicals, and electrically powered consumer durables, which were the leading sectors in the 1950s. Agriculture fell from 19.2 to 7.5 percent, minimum wage increased from $1.00 to $1.25, and the unemployment of was around 6 percent. Another economic point is the growing middleclass. Between 1945 and 1960, the median family income, adjusted for inflation, almost doubled. Rising income doubled the size of the middle class. Before the Great Depression of the 1930s only one-third of Americans qualified as middle class, but in postwar America two-thirds did. Many middle class families of postwar America became suburban families. Of the 13 million new homes built in the 1950s, 85 percent were in the suburbs. The GI bill helped this growth greatly. Soldiers coming home from the war would have a government loan for a home or going to college. Making college more of a social norm. Which still effects society today making more jobs having a college degree required. The political culture focused more on containing communism with the theory helping this being called the domino theory “Military Intervention in Korea and Vietnam finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the falling domino principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration
During the sixties and seventies there was an influx of social change movements, from civil rights, gay rights, student’s rights and feminism. In the early sixties the US was experiencing
...ty in the world that even remotely resembles it”. (p91) Going forward what is needed is for the Corinthians is to stop being self-centered and repent. The church is God’s sanctuary. Paul’s portrayal of the church expands upon the role of the “Father Son and Holy Spirit in relation to the church”(p91). Which minimizes the role of its leaders, the leaders are not to be put on a pedestal. Because all the glory goes to God the leaders are mere servants of their flock and servants of God. The growth in God’s field is caused by God not humans as for God’s building the only foundation is that of Jesus Christ, and God’s temple is where the Holy Spirit dwells. According to Romans 8:17 what is Jesus’s is ours 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Moving to the post World War II era, the evangelical coalition began to appeal to the older generations, to the Hollywood population, and to leaders in Washington D.C. Soon after the war, the religious conflicts that infected fundamentalism in the 1920’s were no longer relevant. Protestantism, in its mainline form, had become much more evangelical in its’ nature and its’ sects became much more interested in becoming recognized publicly. Many historians agree that, “what has not often been recognized, however, is that one of the most important driving forces behind the postwar resurgence of religion was a cadre o...
Richardson, William E., and Dave Kidd. “Articles.” Pentecostal Evangel. General Council of the Assemblies of God. Web. 13 Nov. 2011.
A religious organization is a group of people who are bound by their desire to wo...