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Most of the nonconformist Churches are to some extent evangelistic.
Evangelism
Evangelism is the belief that the gospel of Jesus Christ should be preached directly to people without any need for a highly organized and established Church and elaborate services. Many evangelists preach that men can be saved and go to heaven only as the result of their faith in God and not of the good works they do on earth. They believe that men can be suddenly converted and live new lives.
The entire nonconformist Churches are to some extent evangelistic. The Congregationalists, originally called Brownists, developed from the Puritans of the 1500's. They try to avoid excessive centralization: each congregation elects its own minister. They have close ties with the Presbyterians, who are strong in Scotland. The Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, was formed by George Fox in 1647. Quakers reject formal services and sacraments such as baptism and Holy Communion. At about the same time, Unitarianism developed. Unitarians do not believe in the Trinity.
John Wesley founded the Methodist Church during the 1700's. It was a breakaway movement from the Church of England. A feature of the Methodist Church is the number of lay or local preachers, who lead services.
General William Booth founded the Salvation Army in 1865. The Salvation Army has always concentrated on bringing the Christian message to the poorest and most degraded of people. It does much valuable social work and runs a service for tracing missing people.
Some evangelistic Churches hold fundamentalist views i.e., they believe that every word of the Bible is literally true.
