What is WJE and ERF?
ERF is a decades-old fellowship of evangelical pastors and laypeople in the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. We gather once or twice during the year for renewal and education. We also sponsor pre-Annual Conference briefings and meet for a banquet during the Annual Conference. ERF sometimes functions as an unofficial evangelical caucus, but most times it is an informal fellowship. While some members of ERF are affiliated with Good News and the Confessing Movement, many are not. WJE is simply a name for ERF's web-presence.
What is our definition of an evangelical?
Our definition is admittedly imprecise. Generally speaking, however, evangelicals believe in the affirmations of the Nicene Creed, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the authority and reliability of Scripture, the bodily resurrection of Jesus, the necessity of conversion to experience salvation by grace through faith, the reality of heaven and hell, and salvation through Jesus Christ alone.