Affinity (formerly known as the British Evangelical Council), is an organisation that links together evangelical churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There are around 1200 church congregations linked to Affinity. Evangelicalism usually refers to a conservative tendency in diverse branches of Protestantism, typified by an emphasis on evangelism, a personal experience of conversion and biblically-oriented faith, and a belief in the relevance of Christian faith to cultural issues. ...
Affinity's ancillary title is "Church-centred Partnership for Bible-centred Christianity".
Groups of churches linked to Affinity include the Apostolic Church, the Association of Grace Baptist Churches, the Evangelical Movement of Wales, the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches, the Free Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales and Ireland. The Apostolic Church was the first Pentecostal denomination in the United Kingdom, founded in the early twentieth century and has expanded across the world. ... Association of Grace Baptist Churches - any one of three regional associations in England in cooperation with one another and with the Grace Baptist Assembly. ... History The Evangelical Movement of Wales was born in the 1940s, it came to light as a counter move by reformed Christians (see Reformed theology) to the liberal theology which got in to the protestant denominations of Wales during the 20th century. ... In one sense the Free Church of Scotland dated its existence from the Disruption of 1843, in another it claimed to be the rightful representative of the national Church of Scotland as it was reformed in 1560. ... Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales is a reformed Church in the United Kingdom. ...
The director of Affinity is Jonathan Stephen, who is also a pastor of Carey Baptist Church in Reading, UK. St Marys Church and market Reading is a town and unitary authority in Berkshire in England, at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, halfway between London and Oxford. ...
External links
Affinity's website
To Affinity and Beyond - an article in Evangelicals Now magazine
In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage.
In chemistry the term affinity is used with the meaning of reactivity, referring to the relative stability of the product(s) from a certain reaction or process.
Affinity of one chemical to another is measured quantitatively by an equilibrium constant of the bound and nonbound form.
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