National Association of Evangelicals

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) was formed in April 1942. A group of 150 men and women met in St. Louis to establish an organization initially named "National Association of Evangelicals for United Action" after a national conference called "United Action Among Evangelicals." That "action" was to preserve Christian Fundamentalism in the United States and oppose the more liberal views of the Federal Council of Churches. The group's first vote was a move against affiliation with the Federal Council of Churches and the American Council of Christian Churches.

One of the catalysts for the group's formation was the Fundamentalist-Modernist debate among American Christians, which included a strong position against teaching evolution in schools. Initial proposals in the NAE included motions to establish an educational committee to invite "qualified schools to adhere to this association." Other motions included a separation from churches sympathetic to or leaning towards Christian Modernism. Modernist Christian denominations began to debate the authority of the Bible, the death, resurrection, and atoning sacrifice of Jesus, creationism, evolution, and more. Christian Fundamentalists were opposed to the views of the Modernists.

Before the creation of the National Council of Evangelicals, many disparate Fundamentalist leagues, groups, and organizations were created to rally Christians against Modernism. In the 1920s, American politician William Jennings Bryan championed the Fundamentalist movement via the highly publicized Scopes Trial and a series of lectures in the South to defend the Christian faith. After Bryan's death, fundamentalist organizations were created in his honor, most notably Gerald Burton Winrod's "Defenders of the Christian Fath." Winrod also served on the board of directors of the World's Christian Fundamentalist Association (WCFA), the leading conservative organization to wage war against modernism. Branham's mentor and second-in-command of the Ku Klux Klan, Roy E. Davis, also served as one of the national directors of the WCFA. Though the National Council of Evangelicals may not have been fully aligned with the scattered fundamentalist organizations or their leaders, the council was a means to unite the groups for a common cause.

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National Association of Evangelicals:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/national_association_of_evangelicals

Defenders of the Christian Faith:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/defenders_of_the_christian_faith

Gerald Burton Winrod:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/gerald_burton_winrod

Roy E. Davis:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/roy_e._davis
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