Plymouth Brethren Christian Church

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The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) is an evangelical Christian denomination in the Exclusive Brethren tradition, a branch of the Plymouth Brethren originating in the 19th century. The PBCC has a global presence, with about 50,000 members based across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the Americas. Members see the Bible as their Scripture and the denomination teaches the doctrine of nonconformity to the world—aiming to live apart from what they see as the moral corruption in mainstream society. The Brethren movement originated among evangelical Protestants in Ireland and England in the 1820s. John Nelson Darby was one of its early leaders, and the movement became associated with Plymouth after Darby began meeting there with others who had separated from the Church of England. In 1848, the movement divided into the Open Brethren and Exclusive Brethren, the latter adopting more restrictive rules concerning membership and relations with people outside the fellowship...

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