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[Excerpt] The Restoration Movement (also known historically as the “Stone-Campbell Movement”) is a Christian reform movement traced to the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States during the Second Great Awakening. Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell were leading figures of four independent movements with like principles who merged together into two religious movements of significant size. These churches have a total population of about 4,000,000 in the United States. Restorationism sought to renew the whole Christian church, on the pattern set forth in the New Testament, without regard to the creeds developed over time in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or Protestantism, which allegedly kept Christianity divided. Churches are now found throughout the globe, claiming to “concentrate on the essential aspects of the Christian faith, allowing for a diversity of understanding with non-essentials.” Essentially, there are those who are not under the beliefs and doctrines of Alexander Campbell. These are members that believe in Jesus Christ the Son as the savior and authority of the church. Among key practices are the weekly celebration of the Lord’s Supper on the first day of each week and a commitment to believer’s baptism by immersion in water.

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