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The attributes of God may be classified under two main categories: His infinite powers. His personality attributes, like holiness and love. Millard Erickson calls these categories God's greatness and goodness respectively. [3]
"One Church", illustration of Article 7 of the Augsburg Confession. This mark derives from the Pauline epistles, which state that the Church is "one". [11] In 1 Cor. 15:9, Paul the Apostle spoke of himself as having persecuted "the church of God", not just the local church in Jerusalem but the same church that he addresses at the beginning of that letter as "the church of God that is in ...
In 1881, D. S. Warner started the Evening Light Reformation, out of which was formed the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), bringing Restorationism to the Holiness family. [65] The Church of God Reformation Movement held that "interracial worship was a sign of the true Church", with both whites and blacks ministering regularly in Church of God ...
Holiness Pentecostals teach that believers should dress and behave in a manner becoming unto holiness, and as such, historically, Holiness Pentecostals (such as the Apostolic Faith Church, Calvary Holiness Association and Free Holiness Church) traditionally adhere to the Wesleyan doctrine of outward holiness, which include modest dress, as well ...
The Church of God (Holiness) has about 120 congregations in the United States, with the majority in Missouri and Kansas. [6] Additionally they have 12 congregations on the Navajo Reservation, 13 Spanish-speaking congregations in California, Texas, New York and Colorado, a Korean ministry in Overland Park, Kansas , and two Haitian works in New ...
The universal call to holiness is a teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that all people are called to be holy, and is based on Matthew 5:48: "Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). In the first book of the Bible, the call to holiness is expressed in the Lord's words to Abraham: "Walk before me, and ...
Congregations led by Charles W. Gray also retained the original teaching of the holiness movement and though identical in doctrine to those led by C.P. Jones, they left and formed the Original Church of God. The name Church of God in Christ was widely held by both groups until 1907, when Bishop C. H. Mason had the name COGIC, incorporated ...
Calvary Holiness Church (Philadelphia) Central Yearly Meeting of Friends; Christ's Sanctified Holy Church; Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. Church of Daniel's Band; Church of God (Guthrie, Oklahoma) Church of God (Holiness) Church of God (Restoration) Church of God by Faith; Church of God in Christ; Church of the Nazarene; Churches of Christ ...