The Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers' Church emerged out of the spontaneous gospel revival among students of high school and higher institutions in various parts of the country by the mid 1960s. In those successive years the revival broke throughout the country. Since then, the revival inundated the whole country the provincial towns, small towns and villages in the countryside. The church official
ly founded in 1966 at Addis Ababa. However the movement was not only limited in Addis Ababa rather it covers the whole country. This brought the issue that the believers had to form unity on a national level and be organized as a denomination. In 1974, leaders from different places of the country came and agreed to be organized at a denominational level. Organizing the denomination had many advantages; among those are that it enabled to guard against false teaching/heresy/ and the other was to obtain recognition by the government and other denominations. Besides these, the unity had contributed in holding common understanding of doctrine, as well the believers were able to encourage and help one another during years of hardship. With the change of the government in Ethiopia came new chapter of the church. The national office of the church is established in Addis Ababa and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia accorded the church its full recognition on November 10, 1991 in accordance with the constitutional provision of the religious liberty and freedom of worship. Now a days the Church is one of few big evangelical Churches in the country. It consists of more than 3093 local churches and 8000 fellowships divided into 38 regions . The Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers' Church Statement of Faith:
1. We believe that the Holy Bible, which contains the sixty-six books of the old and New Testament, is the inspired word of God. It is inerrant and is the final authority in all maters of faith and conduct.
2. This God revealed himself as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the sovereignty of God in creation, providence, revelation, redemption and Final judgment
4. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, born of the virgin Mary, True God and True Man, in his redemptive death on the cross, his burial, his bodily resurrection from the dead, his ascension to the Father's right hand and his glorious return to judge the living and the dead.
5. We believe that man was created in the image of God has fallen in sin and is therefore guilty. subject to the wrath and condemnation of God.
6. We believe that God delivered humanity from guilt, power and penalty of sin through 1 redemptive work of the sinless Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord who died on the cross man's perfect substitute. Hence we believe that the sinner shall be saved by the grace of God through faith in Christ alone.
7. We believe that the Holy Spirit works in the life of the repentant sinner granting conviction of sin and creating him a new as a result of faith in Jesus Christ.
8. For the edification of the body and enable it to accomplish the assignment of the great commission and to edify the church Christ gave her apostles, prophets, evangelists, paste teachers and other ministry gifts.
9. We believe in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the believer. We believe that the belie' receives power and speak in tongues when baptized by the Holy Spirit and can be filled w the Spirit constantly.
10. We believe that God the Holy Spirit is active today dividing gifts of grace to the body Christ, to work miracles, heal the sick, cast out demons and do other deeds for the glory our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for the extension of God's kingdom and for the edification of the Church.
11. We believe in the one Holy Church, which is the body of Christ and to which all believers belong.
12. We believe that the repentant sinner who professes faith in Jesus Christ shall identify w the death and resurrection of Christ through water baptism by immersion in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. We also believe that the believer partakes of the Lords' supper to declare the Lord's death till he comes and to show his fellowship with ot1 believers in the body of Christ.
13. We believe that Christ gave ordinances to the Church namely water baptism and Lon Supper.
14. We believe in the resurrection of the dead, in eternal judgment of the wicked and eternal bliss of the saved.
