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born-again |
of, pertaining to, or professing a new or renewed commitment to belief in Christ or to evangelical Christianity. [1/2 definitions] |
evangelical |
a person who embraces evangelical doctrines. [1/4 definitions] |
evangelist |
a person who works to gain converts to an evangelical church, esp. a minister who travels about or broadcasts his or her preaching widely. [1/3 definitions] |
Mennonite |
any member of an evangelical Protestant Christian sect founded in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century, characterized by simple living and by opposition to military service and to holding public office. [1/2 definitions] |
Salvation Army |
an international evangelical and charitable Christian organization. |
United Church of Christ |
a Protestant denomination created by a merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957. |
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