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The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) is an organisation linking independent, evangelical churches in the United Kingdom. The word evangelicalism usually refers to a tendency in diverse branches of Protestantism, typified by an emphasis on evangelism, a personal experience of conversion, biblically-oriented faith, and a belief in the relevance of Christian faith to cultural issues. ...
The FIEC was formed in 1922 under the name A Fellowship of Undenominational and Unattached Churches and Missions, but was later renamed The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
FIEC currently has around 500 affiliated churches, which together have a total of around 22,000 members.
Member churches are required to assent to and sign annually the doctrinal basis of the Fellowship.
FIEC is linked to Affinity, which was previously called the British Evangelical Council. Affinity (formerly known as the British Evangelical Council), is an organisation that links together evangelical churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ...
The Fellowship of IndependentEvangelicalChurches and the British Evangelical Council are significant organisations in the ranks of independentchurches in Britain.
Churches had to come out of their denominations before they could be in union with the FIEC.
By means of the BEC, and FIEC has had fellowship at the church level with the Free Church of Scotland and the Evangelical Presbyterians of Ulster.
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