The Swedish Alliance Mission has its roots in the nyevangelism revival of the 19th century, mainly in Jönköping and neighboring counties.
Elmblad was soon transferred due to protests[2] and was later active in the Swedish Evangelical Mission (Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen, EFS).
[3] The group in Jönköping continued to meet in homes, despite the Conventicle Act, which forbade religious gatherings without the participation of a priest.
It was mainly used for the association's four quarterly meetings, which were held in connection with Jönköping's market days in January, March, May and October.
[10] Gradually, more and more mission buildings were built by the local assistant associations, to be used for meetings when the traveling preacher came to visit, but also for auctions.
Through an American organization (the Scandinavian Alliance Mission), he undertook the task of recruiting 200 missionaries, mainly to China.
The early roots of the Alliance Mission, like much of the rest of the revivalist movement, used a form of civil disobedience to the Conventicle Act (1726–1858), i.e. the ban on gathering as a religious group without a priest present.
A theological belief that characterized the roots of the Swedish Alliance Mission, as well as other parts of the revival movement, was the Pietist emphasis on personal conversion and sanctification.
The Swedish Alliance Mission has held to the Anselmian doctrine of the atonement and has generally had a more conservative biblical view.
[17] The Swedish Alliance Mission was influenced by other parts of the revivalist movement in Sweden, perhaps mainly after it developed from an intra-church missionary association to a free church denomination.
The most obvious example of collaboration and the influence of the ecumenical movement, of which the Alliance Mission is a part, is the joint theology and leadership training program Academy for Leadership and Theology [sv] (ALT), run together with the Pentecostal Alliance of Independent Churches and the Evangelical Free Church in Sweden.