According to the list of preachers chronologically presented on page 21, a Bible believing type of Arminianism could be traced from the early church fathers, through the Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Anglican Church, and finally the Methodist Church. To pick up from where he leaves off, I would add all of the churches from the holiness movement and the Pentecostal movement. It is specifically to be found in their books on doctrine, theology, and catechism–and specifically in the soteriology sections of those books: the parts that teach about salvation. In terms of modern day church attendance, I suppose I could recommend the following Arminian denominations: the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), the Global Methodist Church (GMC), the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), the Church of the Nazarene, the Free Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Church, Church of God (Anderson), the Free Will Baptist Church (FWB), Church of Christ, the Bible Methodist Church, Church of God (Holiness), God’s Missionary Church, the Southern Methodist Church, Assemblies of God (AG), and Church of God (Cleveland) (COG). Although I personally lean in the direction of these last two more than any of them; but after that, maybe the CMA, the Southern Methodists, or the Bible Methodists. A lot of the other ones are into evolution, third way, seeker-sensitive, and worldly compromise, even the ones I chose; so you would have to look for smaller old school churches out in the country.

Really, Church of God (Cleveland) is my favorite: specifically small Churches of God out in the country, in the South, where the preacher makes a point to break a sweat during his fervent preaching of repentance and hellfire sermons. When it comes to the issue of young earth creation (YEC), which I would consider absolutely essential for sound doctrine, homeschooling, Christian academies, and Christian education, the independent Baptists (IFB) are the absolute strongest, so I would suggest some level of cooperation with them, especially because some of them are Bapticostal. They are only half Arminian though; they’ll eventually teach once saved, always saved. The Southern Methodists and the Bible Methodists are likely 100% young earth creation (YEC) churches, but there’s not very many of them. Although I prefer COG and AG churches, young earth creation (YEC) is not pushed very strongly in those churches; and there’s some evolution people mixed in there. But of the two, Church of God (COG) is probably the strongest on YEC. Now, when it comes to the subject of persecution from the Antichrist and post-tribulation rapture, the Southern Methodists and the Bible Methodists are the strongest on that. The two strongest Wesleyan Arminian churches are probably the Southern Methodist Church and Church of God (Cleveland)–in that order–but seeing that I’m a tongue talking Pentecostal, I always land on Church of God as my final choice. They’ve got about 1 million members in the USA and 8 million members worldwide. Their college is Lee University. –J.B.