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Mason suggested the name "the Church of God in Christ," a name that he said came to him during a vision in Little Rock, Arkansas. The name could distinguish the new church from a number of "Church of God" groups that were forming at the time. In March 1907, Mason was sent by the church to Los Angeles to investigate the Azusa Street Revival ...
A man of God (1 Samuel 2:27–36) A man of God from Judah (1 Kings 13:1) A man of God (1 Kings 20:28) One of the sons of the prophets (1 Kings 20:35–42) A man of God (2 Chronicles 25:7–9) The seventy elders of Israel (Numbers 11:25)
The UNTV Public Service channel, Radyo La Verdad 1350 kHz, Wish FM 107.5, The Truth Channel, TV Verdade and TV La Verdad are the official religious media services of the Members Church of God International. Between 2010 and 2011, the MCGI programs reached the airwaves of India, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Portugal.
Enoch Mgijima. Enoch Mgijima (1868 – 5 March 1928) was a Xhosa prophet and evangelist.He formed his own church, known as the Israelites, a breakaway from the Church of God and Saints of Christ, and led them through a clash with the white Union of South Africa government, which left 163 Israelites dead, 129 wounded and 95 taken prisoner, in what became known as the Bulhoek Massacre.
James Francis Marion Jones (November 24, 1907 – August 12, 1971), [3] also known as the Rt. Rev. Dr. James F. Jones, D.D and as Prophet Jones, was an American black religious leader, televangelist, faith healer and pastor who led the religious movement that developed into the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, Inc. from 1938 until his death in 1971.
Bishop Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. was pastor of the Holy Temple Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia and the Jurisdictional Bishop of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction. Bishop Jones was the only living bishop of the five original bishops consecrated by Bishop Mason.
He taught that God, Jesus, Adam, and Eve were black [9] and established the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations in 1886 which has served as a focal point of the modern Black Hebrew Israelite movement. [2] [3] After his death, he was succeeded as the church's leader by his son Prince Benjamin F. Cherry. [7]
The name "Church of God" was chosen as its adherents felt that this was the Scriptural name for the body; its people opposed the idea of denominationalism, holding that "all who were genuinely converted were a part of the true church" and that "each individual was accountable to a local body of believers."