Haugeanism

"Haugeanism has maintained from the very first that every believer has the right publicly to testify concerning his faith, basing this contention on the teaching of the Word of God as to 'the universal priesthood of believers.' They had also demanded that this activity should be free within the congregation, that is, not under the control of the clerical office, but controlled either by the congregation itself or by the body of professing believers . . . Lay preaching has become a recognized and