EFCA
Brenham Bible Church is part of the Evangelical Free Church of America. We are friendly, caring, and committed to helping you grow in Christ through expository preaching, genuine fellowship, and hands-on missions.
The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) is an association of almost 1500 autonomous churches in 75 countries around the world. It began in 1950 when the Evangelical Free Church of America (Swedish) and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association merged. The EFCA's governing body is the annual national Leadership Conference. The Board of Directors serves as the governing body between the Leadership Conferences and on behalf of the body. EFCA churches belong to Districts, which support local congregations and encourage close cooperation between EFCA churches and their district. EFCA churches are autonomous, congretationally governed and interdependent.
Why "Evangelical" and "Free"? Evangelical refers to the commitment to proclaiming the gospel and to the Scriptures as being the "inspired, inerrant, authoritative and sufficient Word of God." Free references the polity, structure and organization (committed to a congregational form of government).
What are the distinctives of the Evangelical Free Church of America?
- EFCA is a believers' church membership consists of those who have a personal faith in Jesus Christ.
- EFCA is evangelical - we are committed to the inerrancy and authority of the Bible and of the essentials of the gospel.
- EFCA embraces a humble orthodoxy in partnership with others of like faith.
- EFCA believes in Christian freedom with responsibility and accountability.
- EFCA believes in both the rational and relational, i.e. the head and the heart, dimensions of Christianity.
- EFCA affirms the right of each local church to govern its own affairs with a spirit of interdependency witih other churches.
There's lots more to the EFCA, like church planting and overseas missions. Check out www.efca.org to learn about it.
