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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]
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. [66] 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 ...
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 Second Vatican Council, in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, speaks with clarity of the universal call to holiness, saying that no one is excluded: "The forms and tasks of life are many but holiness is one—that sanctity which is cultivated by all who act under God's Spirit and… follow Christ, poor, humble and cross-bearing, that ...
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 ...
The holiness standards vary based on the group and while many Holiness Pentecostal denominations such as the Apostolic Faith Church have specific 'holiness standards', other denominations in the present-day, such as the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, have general principles of living contained in their covenant.
[146] The teaching of Methodists aligned with the holiness movement is that outward holiness is a testimony of a Christian believer's regeneration, done in obedience to God. [147] This teaching was inherited by Holiness Pentecostalism at its inception, as Holiness Pentecostals inherited Wesleyan theology, apart from Holiness Pentecostalism's ...
"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 ...