Mission Friends | |
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Missionsvännerna | |
Classification | Protestantism |
Orientation | Lutheran, Baptist (Swedish Baptist), Pentecostal, Charismatic, Radical Pietist, Evangelical Christian |
Theology | Pietism and Radical Pietism |
Polity | Movement and Associations |
Separated from | Church of Sweden (Lutheran) Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church |
Merged into | Swedish Evangelical Mission (Lutheran) Evangelical Free Church in Sweden (Charismatic Baptist) |
The Mission Friends (Swedish: Missionsvännerna) was an interdenominational Christian, mostly Pietist and Radical Pietist association in Sweden and among Swedish Americans (Swedish immigrants) in the United States, that eventually had an impact on several Protestant denominations and their missionary societies today, even outside of Lutheranism, the Swedish community, and the United States, eventually influencing other communities and forming new independent Radical Pietist, Baptist – especially Swedish Baptist – and later on Pentecostal and Charismatic free church denominations.