以马忤斯学院是一所非宗派的学院，由弟兄会运动创立并继续支持, as well as many other evangelical Christian groups.

The Brethren are a fellowship of like-minded, 不属于任何正式教派的独立的地方教会. These brethren are a loose fellowship of like-minded, yet interdependent churches rather than a tight-knit, formal denomination. Each church is autonomous, but enjoys sharing preachers, 营地, 会议, national service organizations, and mission-sending agencies. Their theology fits well within protestant evangelicalism. There are 800 congregations with 60,000 members in the U.S.在加拿大有400个教会，3万名成员(被称为黄金城官网教兄弟会)。.

The movement began in England and Ireland in the late 1820s. Christians from various churches, who had become dissatisfied with the formalism, clericalism and spiritual dryness of many British churches, met for communion, 祈祷, and 圣经 teaching. They sought a simple New Testament pattern of meeting. 他们的一些早期领导人是约翰·纳尔逊·达比，安东尼·诺里斯·格罗夫斯，威廉·凯利，C. H. Mackintosh, and George Mueller. Two of their larger centers were in Plymouth and Dublin. They rallied around several distinctives. The brethren do not ordain clergy, 但更倾向于强调每个信徒的圣职和教会中的平信徒的事工. They consider worship a primary reason to gather as believers, so they break bread weekly, 在长达一小时的会议中，通过公开的口头参与来庆祝交流. 他们由多位长老带领，在讲坛上使用不同的传道人. 弟兄们的神学和实践很符合主流福音主义. 作为一个整体，他们对福音派的两个最大贡献是领导的多元化和时代论, premillennial view of Christ's kingdom. 他们以传福音、传教和个人对圣经的了解而闻名.

约有三分之一的学生来自以马忤斯弟兄会的背景, while the remainder come from other evangelical 回来grounds.

不，但我们确实希望所有的学生都能积极参与当地的福音派教会. There are three assemblies in town, 还有其他一些福音派教会可供选择.