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From its beginnings, the Church of God had a commitment to pacifism and antiracism. [4] The Church of God held that "interracial worship was a sign of the true Church", with both whites and blacks ministering regularly in Church of God congregations, which invited people of all races to worship there. [4]
CGI was founded in 1978 by four former members of the Worldwide Church of God, [2] including evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong (1930–2003) [3] after his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, excommunicated him from the WCG and fired him from all roles in the church over disagreements about operations and certain doctrinal positions.
The World Mission Society Church of God is a new religious movement established by Ahn Sahng-hong in South Korea in 1964. [5] The church believes that founder Ahn Sahng-hong is the Second Coming of Jesus, and that Zahng Gil-jah is God, in the form of "God the Mother". [6]
Church of God International (United States), based in Tyler, Texas; Church of God Preparing for the Kingdom of God; Church of the Great God, based in Charlotte, North Carolina; Global Church of God, based in the UK, affiliated with the Church of the Eternal God (U.S.) and the Church of God, a Christian Fellowship, (Canada)
The Church of God is a holiness Pentecostal body that descends from the Christian Union movement of Richard Spurling, A. J. Tomlinson and others. They consider themselves officially The Church of God, but also designate themselves as The Church of God (1957 Reformation) and The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres), which is the name of their headquarters.
The movement to create LGBT-affirming Apostolic or Oneness Pentecostal churches began in 1980 in the city of Schenectady, New York. [7] [8] [9] The founder of the affirming Apostolic Pentecostal movement, Reverend William H. Carey, envisioned an international network of affirming Oneness Pentecostal churches, including the more fundamentalist theology inherent with such churches.
The Church of God is a hierarchical church with an episcopal polity. [ 22 ] [ 13 ] The Church of God's highest judicial body is the International General Assembly. [ 23 ] This body has "full power and authority to designate the teaching, government, principles, and practices" of the Church of God. [ 24 ]
The Church of God (Restoration) builds the dating of their movement on the same dates as the Church of God (Anderson) earlier ministers did. They also hold that in about 1930 the Church of God (Anderson) as a whole became apostate and there was silence in the spiritual heavens for "the space of half an hour" (Rev 8:1).