Held by many Protestant groups who take what they believe is a more literal interpretation of the Bible, including many, but not most, Pentecostal Charismatic and Baptist churches and Independent and ' Non-denominational ' churches as well as a few of the Presbyterian Church and Wesleyan / Methodist churches.

Independent Baptist churches have no formal organizational structure above the level of the local congregation.

* Independent Fundamental Baptist

The Memphis area is home to many private, college-prep schools: Briarcrest Christian School ( co-ed ), Christian Brothers High School ( boys ), Evangelical Christian School ( co-ed ), First Assembly Christian School ( co-ed ), Hutchison School ( girls ), Lausanne Collegiate School ( co-ed ), Memphis University School ( boys ), Saint Benedict at Auburndale ( co-ed ), St. George's Independent School ( co-ed ), St. Agnes Academy ( girls ), Bishop Byrne Middle and High School ( co-ed ), Immaculate Conception Cathedral School ( girls ), St. Mary's Episcopal School ( girls ), and Elliston Baptist Academy ( co-ed ).

As evidenced from his writings and publications, Chick is an Independent Baptist who follows a dispensational premillennialist view of the end times.

Such Christians prefer to use the term fundamental, as opposed to fundamentalist ( e. g., Independent Fundamental Baptist and Independent Fundamental Churches of America ).

* LaRue Baptist Church, an Independent Baptist church

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley was born in Armagh, County Armagh and brought up in the town of Ballymena, County Antrim, where his father James Kyle Paisley was an Independent Baptist pastor.

The city is home to several long-established churches including a United Methodist Church, a Congregational Church, the Faith Baptist Church ( Independent ) and the First Baptist Church.

Churches established in the city in later years include Beech Grove Wesleyan Church ( formerly Pilgrim Holiness Church, in the 1920s ); Independent Nazarene Church ( in the 1950s ); Faith Assembly of God ( Assemblies of God, 1958 ); South Emerson Church of God ( Reformation Movement, Church of God ( Anderson ), 1961 ); Southwood Baptist Church ( Southern Baptist Convention, 1962 ); and Ascension Lutheran Church ( Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, 1972 ).

There are also: North Park Elementary, Woodland Elementary, Meadowview Elementary, North Middle School, Radcliff Elementary and the all-grades North Hardin Christian School private school run by Radcliff's Fellowship Independent Baptist Church.

* Jimmy G. Tharpe ( 1930 – 2008 ), founder of Louisiana Baptist University in Shreveport, pastored during the early 1950s the Trinity Baptist Church, then a Missionary Baptist congregation in Doyline but since Independent Baptist.

Sibley is the home of several churches, including First Baptist, First United Methodist, Missionary Baptist, and the Independent Baptist congregation, Baptist Tabernacle, founded by the late evangelist Jimmy G. Tharpe.

* Independent Baptist Academy-( Piscataway Road ) Grades K-4 and up.

* LeRoy Independent Baptist Church

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

* They hold that the practice within Independent groups of ordaining women demonstrates an understanding of Priesthood that they vindicate is totally unacceptable to the Catholic and Orthodox churches as they believe that the Universal Church does not possess such authority ; thus, they uphold that any ceremonies performed by these women should be considered being sacramentally invalid.

This applies to the validity and efficacy of the ordination of bishops and the other sacraments, not only of the Independent Catholic Churches, but also of all other Christian churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodoxy and the Assyrian Church of the East.

In the Roman Catholic ( Latin: sacri ordines ), Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ( ιερωσύνη, ιεράτευμα, Священство ), Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, Independent Catholic churches and some Lutheran churches Holy Orders comprise the three orders of bishop, priest and deacon, or the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders.

The church suffered a split in Ireland in 1973 when a group of churches formed the Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches.

Other traditional Christian churches ( Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Independent Catholic Churches, etc.

The small town consists of one convenience store, a US Post office, an Independent School District, a mechanic service, a store called blues tropical paradise, a natural gas plant, a cabinet maker, a volunteer fire department, an excavation company, a community center, and several churches.

He assisted in the restoration of the Rump parliament, and, when George Monck began his march into England, Owen, in the name of the Independent churches, to whom Monck was supposed to belong, and who were anxious about his intentions, wrote to dissuade him.

Whilst members of the Independent Catholic movement take seriously the issue of valid orders, it is highly significant that the relevant Vatican Congregations tend not to respond to petitions from Independent Catholic bishops and clergy who seek to be received into communion with the Holy See, hoping to continue in some sacramental role.

More than the name separates each church example :" Independent Christian Church " will not accept a woman as a minister when some of the " Disciples of Christ " congregation will.

After some pressure, an office of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission opened an office in Mazar in April 2003.

Independent circuits can be found in almost any community in the United States, with some cities having numerous leagues using many of the same wrestlers as other nearby leagues.

The term " tabloid journalism ", which tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, celebrity gossip and TV is commonly associated with tabloid sized newspapers, though some respected newspapers such as The Independent are in tabloid format, and in the United Kingdom the size is used by nearly all local newspapers.

A number of conservative parties ( some formally affiliated with or descended from the American Independent Party, some not ) calling themselves " Constitution Party " have existed in the United States.

Reporting the appointment of George Simpson as GEC managing director in 1996, The Independent had said " some analysts believe that Mr Simpson's inside knowledge of BAe, a long-rumoured GEC bid target, was a key to his appointment.

In September 2012, the Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded that up to 41 of the 96 who had died might have been saved had some failings been addressed.

Sarandon has contributed the narration to some two dozen documentary films, many of which dealt with social and political issues ; in addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, Independent Lens.

By the end of this period some Independent Puritans were again derisively using the term Roundhead to refer to the Presbyterian Puritans.

: The Independent is a relative newcomer but is generally regarded as a source of some of the most innovative crosswords.

There is some disagreement as to who tailored the suit ; according to Vanity Fair magazine, it was Norton & Sons of London, although according to The Independent it was Quintino of Beverly Hills.

In his retirement, and for some years previously, he has contributed obituaries to The Independent.

The market was tight and when The Independent launched The Independent on Sunday in 1990, sales were less than anticipated ( partly due to the launch of the ill-fated Sunday Correspondent some months earlier ).

Most residents are zoned to the Dallas Independent School District, while some are zoned to the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District.

However some Lefors children go to the Pampa Independent School District, in Pampa, Texas

Most of Haltom City is served by the Birdville Independent School District ( BISD ), but some portions are served by the Fort Worth Independent School District and Keller Independent School District.

Writing in The Independent, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon said :" Goldsmiths graduates are unembarrassed about promoting themselves and their work: some of the most striking exhibitions in London over the past few months —" The East Country Yard Show ", or " Gambler ", both staged in docklands — have been independently organized and funded by Goldsmiths graduates as showcases for their work.