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Twelve Tribes communities
Cult and new religious movement
Twelve Tribes communities
The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, the Messianic Communities, and the Community Apostolic Order, is an international organisation that originated in the United States. Scholarship from experts in the social psychology of exploitative and abusive relationships, and others in clinical social work, characterises the group as a cult, as does the SPLC. Sociologists of religion characterise the group as a new religious movement. It was founded by Gene Spriggs and it sprang out of the Jesus movement in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1972. The group calls itself an attempt to recreate the 1st-century church as it is described in the Book of Acts. The group's origins in Chattanooga led to planted churches in surrounding areas. In the late seventies, the group established a community in Island Pond, Vermont. The group eventually left Tennessee and primarily moved to Vermont. The Twelve Tribes's beliefs resemble those of Christian...
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