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====Holiness movement==== The [[Emmanuel Association of Churches]], [[Immanuel Missionary Church]], [[Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma)]], First Bible Holiness Church, and [[Christ's Sanctified Holy Church]] are denominations in the [[holiness movement]] (which is largely [[Methodist]] with a minority from other backgrounds such as Quaker, Anabaptist and Restorationist) known for their opposition to war today; they are known as "holiness pacifists".<ref name="Emmanuel2002">{{Cite book |title=Guidebook of the Emmanuel Association of Churches |year=2002 |publisher=[[Emmanuel Association]] |location=[[Logansport, Indiana|Logansport]] |pages=15β17 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=James R. |title=The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions |year=2001 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=978-1615927388}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Manual: First Bible Holiness Church |date=1956 |publisher=First Bible Holiness Church |location=[[Muncie, Indiana|Muncie]] |page=4}}</ref><ref name="BeamanPipkin2013" /> The Emmanuel Association teaches:<ref name="BeamanPipkin2013">{{Cite book |last1=Beaman |first1=Jay |title=Pentecostal and Holiness Statements on War and Peace |last2=Pipkin |first2=Brian K. |year=2013 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=978-1610979085 |pages=73β74, 98β99, 124}}</ref><ref name="Alexander2011">{{Cite book |last=Alexander |first=Estrelda Y. |title=Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism |year=2011 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0830825868 |page=82 |language=English}}</ref> {{blockquote|We feel bound explicitly to avow our unshaken persuasion that War is utterly incompatible with the plain precepts of our divine Lord and Law-giver, and with the whole spirit of the Gospel; and that no plea of necessity or policy, however urgent or peculiar, can avail to release either individuals or nations for the paramount allegiance which they owe to Him who hath said, "Love your enemies." Therefore, we cannot participate in war (Rom. 12:19), war activities, or compulsory training.<ref name="BeamanPipkin2013" />}}
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