T
The Man of God — one leader, worldwide, whose ministry is read everywhere.
The fellowship has had a recognised worldwide leader since James Taylor Senior; James Taylor Junior held it from 1959 to 1970, and Bruce D. Hales, a Sydney businessman, since 2002. His ministry is transcribed, circulated and read in meetings across every country.
Meet them — context →
The shared center — held across the tradition
Separation from evil is God's principle of unity.
The formula is James Taylor Senior's and it is the whole system: the body is one because it is separate, and anything that touches the defiled defiles. Every practice that outsiders find extreme is this sentence applied without exception.
Go deeper — context →
You do not eat with those outside the fellowship.
From the 1960s the doctrine of separation was extended to the table, on 1 Corinthians 5:11. It governs restaurants, workplaces, weddings and the family kitchen, and it is why a withdrawal from is not only a matter of church attendance.
Go deeper — context →
Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
A world under judgement from which the believer must be visibly, physically separate, and a fellowship that is one body across every country
After death
The pre-tribulation rapture of the church, tribulation, then Christ's appearing — the Darbyite scheme, held without modification