Who belongs to protestant sects outside of the c Church of England?

Answer 1

The term 'sect' is usually reserved for a group of people who have branched off from a main denomination and who have different or even heretical beliefs. Therefore to call other groups outside the Church of England as 'sects' is incorrect.

The Church of England is just one Church among many Protestant Churches, all of which profess Jesus Christ as Lord, who believe in the Creeds of the Early Church, regard Jesus as divine and one person in the Trinitarian Godhead, and who accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God. Other Protestant Churches as as Christian as the Church of England. The only difference, usually, is in organisational structure and in minor customs.

Protestant Churches include the rest of the Anglican Church, the Lutherans, Calvinists and the Reformed Church. Other groups include the Anabaptists (from which we get Baptists nowadays), Methodists (an offshoot of the Church of England), Episcopalians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Quakers, Salvation Army, Church of the Nazarene, Armish, Bretheren, Congregational and many more. All have doctrinally the same or similar beliefs to the Church of England, but emphasise different aspects of Christianity (eg the Baptists emphasise adult baptism by immersion, Pentecostals emphasise the gifts of the Holy Spirit and so on). They all share the Christian faith in its true form and reject the authority of both the Orthodox Church and the Rioman Catholic Church - hence the name 'Protestant' = 'protesting against the pope'.

Other groups such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons and the Christian Scientists, as well as not being part of the Protestant Church cannot either be a part of the Christian Church as a whole, as their beliefs are so far removed from mainstream Christianity as to render them true sects - or even cults - and not Christian Churches as we would understand them.