Australian Free Church
Australian Free Church | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Calvinism |
Polity | Presbyterian |
Origin | 1979 Chadstone, Victoria |
Separated from | Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia |
Congregations | 2 [1] |
Members | about 30 |
Australian Free Church is a Presbyterian denomination in Australia.
History
The Australian Free Church was established in 1979 when Eric Turnbull (1928-2013) was removed from being a minister of the
Turnbull was the minister at
Statistics
There are currently congregations in Chadstone, Beaufort and Hamilton.[1] The Rockhampton congregation was received in 2009 and had previously been a congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church that had withdrawn from that body, but subsequently broke up. The Deep Lead/Stawell Congregation was established in early 2012-but disassociated in 2014, the minister subsequently being called to a Reformed and Presbyterian Congregation in Rockhampton. The total following is about 30 people including three ministers, one with seven children residing in Beaufort (Vic).
Theology
The Australian Free Church holds to the historic Presbyterian confessions, these are:
See also
References
- ^ a b "Places of Worship". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
- ^ a b Rowland Ward and Robert Humphreys, Religious Bodies in Australia, 3rd edition (Wantirna, Victoria: New Melbourne Press, 1995), 88.
- ^ a b "Our History". Australian Free Church. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ a b Australian Free Church
- ^ Standards Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Free Church
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