Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee
The Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee today aligns itself in many ways with the Conservative Holiness Movement.D. P. Denton and his conservative sympathizers met in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1966 to discuss the formation of a new connection with more individual church autonomy.In March 1987, after 35 years as president, D. P. Denton resigned and formed a small group called the Bible Methodist Fellowship.Since Earl Newton retired in 2003, the presidency has been held for shorter time periods by Gerald Wright, Leroy Archibald and Richard Midkiff.They believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ, and affirm their faith in the "literal creation of man by the immediate creative act of God."