Cindy K

In other words, Sovereign Grace (and many of those groups that were hooked up into Shepherding which wove many Calvinist doctrine into things) is unusal.  They were far less Calvinist in years past, but they followed the hierarchy of shepherding.  The CBMW connection grew as their connection to Calvinism grew (as a guiding force).

Anyway, they are an oddball group that underwent a lot of syncretism when they were formed, all resulting from the Charismatic Renewal and Shepherding, as they were one of the bigger shepherding denominations/groups.  Those threads all go back to Bob Mumford and his participation and dabbling in the dominionist ideas of the Calvinists.

If you look only at where the groups came from, traditional Methodists and traditional Pentecostals tend to be more egalitarian.   Baptists that are Dispensational tend to be more egalitarian as opposed to their Reformed Baptist counterparts.

I think.

But Sovereign Grace is a weird product of both the “love and togetherness” of the time when it was formed and of the dropping of many denominational barriers during the Charismatic Renewal that seemed to trancend all denominational barriers.