Their desire was to place greater evangelical emphasis on such doctrines as repentance, conversion, scriptural discipline and non-conformity to the world.
Affiliation was accomplished in 1958, with the South American group being made a district of the general conference, but with self-government.
Until 1983, the conference officially held the Mennonite position of non-resistance and not bearing arms in war.
Since that year, their constitution, while maintaining the official position, has also recognized the individual's right to their own conscience concerning these matters.
[2] The Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches holds an orthodox Trinitarian theology, the infallible inspiration of the Scriptures, and is dispensational premillennial in eschatology.
1964), and the Mennonite World Conference, and until January, 2023, they had held membership with the National Association of Evangelicals (USA, org.