Abstract:
Thus was born a church: the rise of the Christian Independent communities in the city
of Serra, Espírito Santo is a work that aims to identify the factors that has triggered the
birth of new Christian churches, not related to historical communities in the municipality
of Serra, as well as the impact of this phenomenon in Historical Protestant Churches,
especially in Baptist Churches, in both its benefits and the losses. In the first chapter,
the geographical search is located and theoretically, through a mapping of the religious
city of Serra and a presentation of the typology used in this work. The second chapter
provides a brief history, showing how the Christian churches were born from the New
Testament period to the present, with emphasis on early Christianity Churches, Great
Schism, the Reform Movement of the XVI century, and in the Pentecostal movement.
The third chapter identifies the external and internal factors that have triggered the birth
of new churches. The fourth chapter presents the benefits and losses that the
fragmentation of Christianity creates to the Historic Christian Churches and the
Kingdom of God.
