A religious movement, founded in 1846 - the formal expression of an international evangelical community embracing a variety of conservative evangelical churches and independent agencies. They are united by the common purpose of winning the world for Christ. In the USA it has been succeeded by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
The Evangelical Alliance is a London-based charitable organization founded in 1846 with a claimed representation of over 1,000,000 evangelical Christians in the United Kingdom. It was a founding member of the World Evangelical Fellowship (now the World Evangelical Alliance).
The Evangelical Alliance has about 7000 churches affiliated to it.
The Evangelical Alliance lobbies the government on various political issues.
Recent Controversy
Recently the Alliance has had to face up to questions over what it means to be 'Evangelical'. Initially, the Evangelical Alliance published a strongly-worded statement:
"...we do not believe that penal substitutionary atonement can be rejected as it is rejected in The Lost Message of Jesus, and as Steve has persisted in rejecting it since.
However, this press release was later moved to the 'archive' section of the Alliance's web site, and subsequently quietly disappeared altogether. Now, according to a statement in 2005 by the General Director, it welcomes the fact that Steve Chalke has:
"affirmed [his] willingness to continue creative engagement with penal substitutionary atonement, and to work alongside its proponents in the cause of the gospel."
Currently the General Director is Joel Edwards and the Head of Theology is David Hilborn.
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