The Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches (FFBC) is a fellowship of independent, autonomous, fundament churches established in 1939. It is considered only a fellowship of like-minded churches, rather than a denomination. Local congregations in the fellowship have no financial obligations to the fellowship, and the fellowship exercises no control over them. It is only expected that the churches believe and teach theology that is consistent with the Fundamentals of the Faith. The church originated in a split from the

Methodist Protestant Church The Methodist Protestant Church (MPC) is a regional Methodist Christian denomination in the United States. It was formed in 1828 by former members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, remaining Wesleyan in doctrine and worship, but adopting ...

, which was in merger talks with the

Methodist Episcopal Church The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself on a national basis. In ...

and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Shortly before almost all of the Methodist Protestant Church joined the two Methodist Episcopal bodies to form The Methodist Church, the more conservative churches in the Methodist Protestant Church's Eastern Conference reorganized as the Bible Protestant Church. It took its current name in 1985. Doctrinally, the FFBC professes to hold these distinctives: ''"Biblically literal in our interpretation; dispensational (not covenantal) in our theology; premillennial and pretribulational in our eschatology; evangelistic and missions-oriented in our outreach; Biblically separated in personal life and ecclesiastical associations, and baptistic with regard to the mode and subjects of baptism."'' They also oppose the

Pentecostal Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement

and Charismatic movements, holding that spiritual gifts such as

speaking in tongues Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is a practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid vocalizing of sp ...

were sign gifts that ceased to operate after the close of the New Testament canon. Currently (2018), the FFBC comprises 18 churches spread out over New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and California. The fellowship operates the '' Tri-State Bible Camp & Conference Center'' in Montague, New Jersey. Most churches in the fellowship are either "Bible Churches" or "Baptist Churches". The ''Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches'' is a member of the American Council of Christian Churches.

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