Talk:Gospel Halls

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The authors Bogus accusations labeling Gospel halls a sect, is false. Gospel Halls is a special auditorum used for preaching the Good News. The gospel hall is not a sect. Stop creating Wikipedia Articles and flooding internet sites with this bogus accusations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.93.228.176 (talk) 18:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How different

While the author of this article may well be correct in identifying a different (Scottish) origin for Gospel Hall Brethren, I would question whether this article serves a useful function:

• Is there a recognisable difference between them and Plymouth Brethren?
• Is there a separate denominational organisation today? I of course appreciate that denominational organisation is minimal anyway.

If these questions cannot be answered in the affirmative, I would suggest that the article be merged with [[Plymouth Brethren]. In any event details should (please) be provided of a citable sources. Peterkingiron 17:21, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I wrote this article because I saw that although the "gospel hall brethren" have a page, nobody bothered to explain what precisely a gospel hall is. So I made this page. Sorry about no cited sources; as a member of a gospel hall assembly, I just used my history with the gospel hall brethren. As they all are pretty much the same (at least the ones in Mexico, South America, the US, Ireland, and the UK and Canada are) I didn't really use any particular online source. I did use Norman Crawford's short book "Assembly Truth" for some information about gospel halls in general.

In answer to your questions... the gospel hall brethren are similar to but not the same as the Plymouth Brethren. Whereas the Plymouth Brethren take a name (the "Plymouth Brethren" or simply "the Brethren"), so-called "gospel hall brethren" do not take any sort of title other than Christians. Any name given to them is given to them by others, not by themselves. The Plymouth Brethren are very much a seperate union (I shrink from using "denomination" because the "gospel hall brethren", if not both groups, is nondenominational.) and have no real fellowship with the "gospel hall brethren". The gospel hall assemblies are all linked by common beliefs, origin and traditions, few (if any) of which are shared with the Plymouth Brethren. 204.38.47.171 16:17, 31 October 2007 (UTC) (Alinnisawest)

I am an outsider to the distinctions among the various groups of Brethren, though I have long been on the fringes and in some degree still am. I am familiar with the distinction between Exclusive and others (usually called Open). There was a previous article Gospel Hall - please look at its history to see what it said - which was deleted and redirected to Plymouth Brethren after a WP:AFD debate. If this article is to survive, you need to provide much more detail of how the Gospel Halls that you describe differ in practice from what outsiders (at least) call Plymouth Brethren. I appreciate that with a movement that is so amorphous, this may be difficult. It helps if you can log in before editing (or commenting here), so that other editors can see who the contribution is by. The numerical internet addresses that appear otherwise are rather anonymous, which is convenient to vandals, something I certainly do not accuse you of. Peterkingiron 23:33, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'm logged in now. I didn't make this page to talk about the group that meets in gospel halls, only to talk about what a gospel hall is. As far as I know, the Plymouth Brethren do not call their gathering places "Gospel Halls", so I felt an article specifically explaining the name was appropriate. The group that meets in gospel halls is under Gospel Hall Brethren, I think. As far as I know, that article explains the differences between the fundamentalist Christians meeting in buildings referred to as "gospel halls" and the Plymouth Brethren. Alinnisawest 16:10, 1 November 2007 (UTC)