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===Holiness Pacifists=== The [[Emmanuel Association]], [[Reformed Free Methodist Church]], [[Immanuel Missionary Church]], [[Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)]], First Bible Holiness Church and [[Christ's Sanctified Holy Church]] are denominations in the [[holiness movement]] known for their opposition to war today; they are known as "Holiness Pacifists".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=James R. |title=The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions |date=2001 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=9781615927388}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Manual: First Bible Holiness Church |date=1956 |publisher=First Bible Holiness Church |location=[[Muncie, Indiana|Muncie]] |page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Discipline of the Reformed Free Methodist Church |date=17 March 1960 |publisher=The Sound of Trumpet Ministries |page=14 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Emmanuel2002">{{cite book |title=Guidebook of the Emmanuel Association of Churches |date=2002 |publisher=[[Emmanuel Association]] |location=[[Logansport, Indiana|Logansport]] |pages=15β17 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Alexander2011">{{cite book |last1=Alexander |first1=Estrelda Y. |title=Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism |date=3 May 2011 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-2586-8 |page=82 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="BeamanPipkin2013"/> The Emmanuel Association, for example, teaches:<ref name="BeamanPipkin2013">{{cite book |last1=Beaman |first1=Jay |last2=Pipkin |first2=Brian K. |title=Pentecostal and Holiness Statements on War and Peace |date=2013 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=9781610979085 |pages=73β74, 98β99, 124|language=en}}</ref> {{blockquote|We feel bound explicitly to avow our unshaken persuasion that War is utterly incompatible with the plain precepts of our divine Lord and Law-giver, and with the whole spirit of the Gospel; and that no plea of necessity or policy, however urgent or peculiar, can avail to release either individuals or nations for the paramount allegiance which they owe to Him who hath said, "Love your enemies." Therefore, we cannot participate in war (Rom. 12:19), war activities, or compulsory training.<ref name="BeamanPipkin2013"/>}}
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