Bible Methodist Connection of Churches

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In 1943, the General Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church recommended the strengthening of the “central supervisory authority to oversee the work of our Church.” The Wesleyan Methodist Church adopted a proposal in 1966 to merge with the Pilgrim Holiness Church, thus forming the Wesleyan Church; those who strongly disagreed with the merger, as well as the trend of greater centralization, formed the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches.{{cite web|url=http://www.apbrown2.net/web/BibleMethodism/HistoryofBibleMethodism.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207183909/http://www.apbrown2.net/web/BibleMethodism/HistoryofBibleMethodism.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 7, 2006|title=The History and Development of Bible Methodism|last=Brown|first=A. Philip|year=1995|language=English|accessdate=1 May 2017}}{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=James R.|title=The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions|year=2002|publisher=Prometheus Books, Publishers|language=English|isbn=9781615927388|page=356|quote=The Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee, the Bible Holiness Church, and the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches were formed as a result of the opposition to the merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Pilgrim Holiness Church into the Wesleyan Church (1968).}}

In 1994, the United Holiness Church, which broke from the Free Methodist Church in 1955, joined the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches.

In 2019, the Pilgrim Nazarene Church merged into the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches.{{cite web |title=Pilgrim Nazarene Church |url=http://www.pilgrimnazarene.org/ |publisher=Southwest Bible Methodist Connection of Churches |accessdate=11 August 2019 |language=English |date=2019}}

The connection is divided into four regional conferences: the Southern Conference, led by Rev. John Parker; the Southwest Conference, led by Rev. G. Clair Sams; the Heartland Conference, led by Rev. Chris Cravens; and the Great Lakes Conference, led by Rev. David Ward.{{Cite web |title=Connectional Team |url=https://www.biblemethodist.org/connectional-team/ |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=Bible Methodist |language=en-US}}

The Bible Methodist Connection of Churches operate one Christian school, three family camps, and three youth camps.{{cite book | last1=Olson | first1=R.E. | last2=Atwood | first2=C.D. | last3=Mead | first3=F.S. | last4=Hill | first4=S.S. | title=Handbook of Denominations in the United States | publisher=Abingdon Press | series=14th ed | year=2018 | isbn=978-1-5018-2251-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0EoMQAACAAJ | access-date=2022-01-26 | page=}}

Seminarians attend God's Bible School and College in Cincinnati and Hobe Sound Bible College in Hobe Sound.

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• Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection
• Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee
• Primitive Methodist Church
• Interchurch Holiness Convention

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• [http://www.biblemethodist.org/ Bible Methodist Connection of Churches]

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