Hence, an understanding of Oneness is critical in any analysis of UPCI doctrine.

Like other Oneness believers, the UPCI baptizes " in the Name of Jesus Christ ", while Trinitarians use " in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit ".

The UPCI operates the only fully accredited Oneness Pentecostal seminary in the world:

In 1945 a merger of two predominantly-white Oneness groups, the Pentecostal Church Incorporated and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ, resulted in the formation of the United Pentecostal Church, or UPCI.

The Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship ( hereafter known as WPF ), a group of Apostolic ministers is the newest Oneness body which was organized in 2008 after the UPCI approved the use of television advertising in their churches.

The UPCI believes their conception of the Godhead is true to early Christianity's strict monotheism.

The UPCI emerged out of the Pentecostal Movement, which traces its origins to the teachings of Charles Parham in Topeka, Kansas, and the Azuza Street Revival led by William J. Seymour in 1906.

Although many Evangelicals would characterize this as " works salvation " and thus heretical, the UPCI insists that one is saved, not by works, but solely by the grace of God which is received through faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to his commandment to be born again.

Other UPCI churches which participated in the competition included:

Although the UPCI belief in the union of the divine and human into one person in Christ is similar to the Chalcedonian formula, Chalcedonians disagree sharply with them over their opposition to Trinitarian dogma.

This Jesus ' Name doctrine is a point of contention between the UPCI and Trinitarian Christians.

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Other notable and / or large churches in Memphis include Second Presbyterian Church ( EPC ), Evergreen Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ), Colonial Park United Methodist Church, Christ United Methodist Church, Idlewild Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ), The Pentecostal Church ( UPCI ), Calvary Episcopal Church, and Elliston Baptist Church.

The United Pentecostal Church International ( UPCI ) is a Pentecostal Christian denomination, headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood, Missouri.

In recent years, the UPCI has become more ethnically diverse.

A number of African-American pastors, presbyters and district superintendents hold leadership positions in the UPCI today.

For the UPCI, Jesus is the one true God manifested in flesh as evidenced by St. John Chapter 1: 1 – 14.

The UPCI derives its soteriology from Acts 2: 38 and John 3: 3 – 5.

The UPCI does not recognize the soteriology advanced by most Evangelical Protestants, namely that belief or faith in Christ alone is the sole requirement for salvation.

The UPCI believes that repentance is essential to salvation, as indicated in Luke 13: 5 and Acts 2: 38.

According to the UPCI, repentance requires the repentant sinner to take the next biblical steps toward forgiveness and reconciliation to God: water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. See under headings " Repentance and Emotion " and " Relationship to Water and Spirit Baptism " in Bernard, David K. Furthermore, repentance must be accompanied by " Godly sorrow ".

UPCI sources emphasize that no one can repent on his or her own power ; it requires a supernatural gift of God's grace. See under heading " The Source of Repentance " in Bernard, David K. It does not bring by itself the full power of salvation, and unless it is followed up with baptism in water in the name of Jesus Christ and baptism of the Holy Ghost, it may be lost. See under heading " Relationship to Water and Spirit Baptism " in Bernard, David K. Furthermore, the ability to repent is temporary and may only be accomplished while one is alive.

Rather than being a concept distinct from that of a sequel, a prequel still adheres to the general principle of serialization, defined only by its internal chronology and publication order.

WWP adheres strongly to the Leninst concept of a cadre membership but seeks to become a revolutionary mass party through Marxist political analysis as well as deep involvement in organizing movements and protests.

On an individual level, how well someone adheres to a cultural worldview is the same concept as self-esteem ; people measure their own worth based on how well they live up to their culture's expectations.

The majority of the population adheres to traditional beliefs or Christianity.

Tempera adheres best to an absorbent ground that has a lower " oil " content than the tempera binder used ( the traditional rule of thumb is " fat over lean ", and never the other way around ).

Rockhurst University adheres to a traditional Ignatian philosophy of educating students not only in academics, but in leadership and service as well.

Broadly speaking, traditional notions of gender assume that one's gender identity, role, and presentation is determined by one's biological or physiological sex: Female-bodied people are expected to identify, behave, and present in a way that conforms to the normative conceptions of femininity ; male-bodied people are expected to identify, behave, and present in a way that adheres to the normative notions of masculinity.

Classical Ballet is the most formal of the ballet styles, it adheres to traditional ballet technique.

That is to say, they contain a free, rhapsodic ( though restrained ) opening section that foreshadows the stylus phantasticus style of German composers later in the century ( notably Dieterich Buxtehude ), followed by an imitative, fugal section that strictly adheres to traditional contrapuntal rules.

There is a separate and unrelated evangelical Christian ministry known as Concerned Christians, an outreach to Mormons in transition out of Mormonism, based in Mesa, Arizona, that was established in the 1970s, and adheres to mainstream, traditional Christian doctrines and teachings.

The largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, to which adheres about half the population.

The SSPV maintains that much of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church no longer adheres to the Catholic faith but instead profess a new, or Conciliar religion.

More generally, the use of water within High Church Anglicanism or Anglo-Catholicism adheres closely to Roman Catholic practice.

" I am dying ," Ken had written, " In the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West ; and, more particularly, in the Communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from both Papal and Protestant innovation, and adheres to the Doctrine of the Cross.

In its religious sympathies it adheres to orthodoxy, whether Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox or Protestant.

It claims to adheres to " the essential Catholic doctrine and practice as expressed and implied in the statements of Vatican Council II, and in the light of the best contemporary thought.

The suburb contains four churches — Uniting and Baptist churches in Salcott Road, and Catholic and non-denominational on Girrawheen Avenue — as well as the Maha Bodhi Buddhist monastery which adheres to the Burmese Theravada tradition.

The Eastern Orthodox Church generally adheres to the doctrine of theosis in its conception of salvation as a process of personal transformation to the likeness of God in Christ.

The Eastern Orthodox Church adheres to the law as laid down in Leviticus, xviii, 8, 14, 16, 18 ; xx, 11, 12, 14, 19, 21.