The United Church of Christ is and was a northern protestant church. The Disciples of Christ or so I have been told belong to the same conference as the United Church of Christ. One of the LBOers brought the Disciples of Christ up a while ago, and, I'm not into the fine points of this relationship. Locally Oberlin College is a United Church of Christ school; and is still in some ways the un-official United Church of Christ semminary and in the past was the official semminary.
The Methodists were pretty well fractured even before the Civil War. The two Methodist Churches that I am the most familiar with historically are the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church. There were a plethora of Methodist Churches in this country up until the formation of the United Methodist Church e.g. the Free Methodists etc.etc. The only differences I can see between the M.E. South and the M.P. Church was that the M.P.'s were Northern pro-union and had a little more humanistic humor in their view of race relations and a little more empathy to all parties involved.
This is all water over the dam anyway,
TL
"John K. Taber" wrote:
> "David Jennings [MSAI] said:
> <
> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, John K. Taber wrote:
>
> >
> >Calvinism cuts both ways.
> >
> >Southern Protestants seem to take Calvin's predestination to mean
> >that they are assured of God's grace. They believe that as born
> >again Christians they are guaranteed salvation regardless of
> >what they do.
> >
>
> I don't know where you're getting this. The most popular churches in
> the
> Southern US are not Calvinist. Also, those churches place a strong
> emphasis on the connection between professions of faith and salvation.
> >
>
> It wouldn't be the first time I was mistaken on this list.
>
> I thought the Baptists were descendents of Calvinism. You're saying
> they're not? So, their belief in personal salvation because of
> being born again isn't grace but profession of faith? I'll be
> darned. I learn something on this list almost every day.
>
> Also, I thought that in the South the Southern Methodists are the
> church of the upper class, while Southern Baptist and Church of
> Christ were middle and working class.
>
> So, does grace have anything to do with Southern Baptists and
> Church of Christ?