Church of God in Christ. The Church Of God in Christ COGIC is a Pentecostal Holiness. The Azusa Street Revival was a historic revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles, California, and is the origin of the Pentecostal movement. It was led by. Who were the Traditional Pentecostals Traditional Pentecostalism is an extension of what the early Church was, the modern manifestation starting around the early 1900s. Christian denomination with a predominantly African American membership. The denomination reports having more than 1. United States. 2 The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in the U. S. 3Internationally, COGIC can be found in more than 8. Smith Wigglesworth Holy Spirit Pdf By RIts worldwide membership is estimated to be between six and eight million,4 composing more than 2. The current presiding Bishop is Bishop Charles Edward Blake Sr., who is the Senior Pastor of West Angeles Church of God In Christ. HistoryeditHoliness OriginseditThe Church of God in Christ was formed in 1. Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones 1. Charles Harrison Mason 1. Smith Wigglesworth Holy Spirit Pdf BooksIl pentecostalismo o movimento pentecostale un insieme di denominazioni e chiese del cristianesimo protestante, sviluppatosi nella seconda met del XIX secolo. Liceo Journal of Higher Education Research. Ranked Category B Philippine Journal Gold Prize Quality Assurance Award for Journal. Shofar prayer praise you holy father god anoint us with holy spirit supernatural peace practice righteousness create in us a clean heart. Find our Church App in the App Store directly on your device. L.jpg' alt='Smith Wigglesworth Holy Spirit Pdf Free' title='Smith Wigglesworth Holy Spirit Pdf Free' />In the 1. C. P. Jones and C. H. Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippi who taught a Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection or Entire Sanctification as a second work of grace to their Baptist congregations. C. H. Mason was influenced by the testimony of the African American Methodist evangelist Amanda Berry Smith, one of the most widely respected African American holiness evangelists of the nineteenth century. Her life story led many African Americans into the Holiness movement, including C. H. Mason. He testified to receiving Entire Sanctification after reading her autobiography. In June 1. C. P. Jones held a Holiness convention at Mt. Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, attended by C. H. Mason and others from several states. Protestant doctrinal debates about Calvinism and Wesleyan Perfectionism affected how even local African American Baptist pastors responded to new Christian movements at the time. Some of these African American Baptist pastors in local Southern areas such as Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas considered C. P. Jones and C. H. Mason to be controversial. The leadership of the Mississippi State Convention of the National Baptist Convention intervened and expelled C. P. Jones, C. H. Mason, and others who embraced the Wesleyan teaching of Entire Sanctification. In 1. Baptist churches under the Mississippi State Convention, Elder Mason founded the St. Paul Church in Lexington, Mississippi, as the first COGIC church. At its first convocation held in 1. Church of God. Many Holiness Christian groups and fellowships forming at the time wanted biblical names for their local churches and fellowships, such as Church of God, Church of Christ, or Church of the Living God. They rejected denominational names such as Baptist, Methodist, or Episcopal. Since so many new holiness groups and fellowships were forming that used the name Church of God, C. H. Mason sought a name to distinguish his Holiness group from others. Later in 1. 89. 7, while in Little Rock, Arkansas, C. H. Mason believed that God had given him such a name for the group, the Church of God in Christ. He believed that the name, taken from 1 Thessalonians 2 1. This Holiness groupfellowship adopted the name Church of God in Christ, and COGIC began to develop congregations throughout the South. C. P. Jones was elected the General Overseer, C. H. Mason was selected as Overseer of Tennessee, and J. A. Jeter was selected as Overseer of Arkansas. After testifying to being sanctified, members of the church referred to themselves as the Saints, believing that they were set apart to live a daily life of Christian Holiness in words and deeds. Pentecostal originseditIn 1. C. H. Mason, J. A Jeter and D. J. Young were appointed as a committee by C. P. Jones to investigate reports of a revival in Los Angeles, California that was being led by an itinerant preacher named William J. Seymour. Masons visit to the Azusa Street Revival changed the direction of the newly formed holiness church. During his visit, Mason received the baptism in the Holy Spirit the evidence was believed to be his speaking in other tongues, in accordance with the biblical account found in the book of Acts 2 4. Upon his return to Jackson, Mississippi, Mason faced opposition when he recounted his experience. Not all of his congregation were willing to accept speaking in tongues as evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit. At the 1. 90. 7 COGIC Convocation held in Jackson, a separation occurred among Jones and other Holiness leaders because of such disagreements. After being rejected for accepting these new teachings, Mason called a meeting in Memphis and reorganized the Church of God in Christ as a Holiness Pentecostal body. The early pioneers of this newly formed Holiness Pentecostal body in 1. E. R. Driver, J. Bowe, R. R. Booker, R. E. Hart, W. Welsh, A. A. Blackwell, E. M. Blackwell, E. M. Page, R. H. I. Clark, D. J. Young, James Brewer, Daniel Spearman, and J. H. Boone. These elders became the first Pentecostal General Assembly of the Church of God in Christ. They unanimously chose C. H. Mason as General Overseer and Chief Apostle. Mason was given authority to lead the new denomination. The Church of God in Christ became the first legally chartered Pentecostal body incorporated in the United States. C. P. Jones and those Holiness leaders who did not embrace the Azusa Revival experience continued as Holiness churches. They organized a legally chartered Holiness body called the Church of Christ Holiness U. S. A. 1. 2Growth and developmentedit. First Church of God in Christ at Park Place and Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn, New York it took over a former synagogue. Senior and Presiding BishopseditBishop Charles Harrison Mason 1. Founder and Senior Bishop. Bishop Ozro Thurston Jones, Sr. Second Senior Bishop. Bishop James Oglethorpe Patterson, Sr. First Elected Presiding Bishop elected six timesBishop Louis Henry Ford 1. Second Elected Presiding Bishop elected twiceBishop Chandler David Owens, Sr. Third Elected Presiding Bishop elected onceBishop Gilbert Earl Patterson 2. Fourth Elected Presiding Bishop elected twiceBishop Charles Edward Blake, Sr. Present Fifth Elected Presiding Bishop elected three timesBishop C. H. Mason era 1. 90. After moving to Memphis, Tennessee, Bishop Mason established a local church called Temple COGIC. He also established the COGIC national headquarters there. He called an annual gathering of COGIC members, known as the International Holy Convocation, to be held in Memphis. This gathering of the Saints lasted for twenty days, from November 2. December 1. 4. This seasonal period was selected because most of the COGIC members were farmers and were finished harvesting their crops around this time. COGIC members gathered for praying, fasting, teaching, preaching, fellowship and conducting business related to the national COGIC organization. COGIC originated among African Americans in the Southern states of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. But during the early twentieth century, the Pentecostal movement had rapid growth nationally and attracted racially integrated congregations to its worship services. Bishop Mason was pivotal in licensing and credentialing both white and African American ministers, who spread the Pentecostal message and planted new churches. The first General Secretary of COGIC was Elder William B. Holt, a white minister. During 1. 91. 0 1. Elder H. A. Goss and Elder Leonard P. Adams, were clergy under the authority of C. H. Mason. They established organizations within COGIC. More than a decade after the Azusa Revival, in 1. United States entered World War I, approximately 3. Holy Spirit Books Christianbook. Sign Up To Receive. Exclusive Email Offers. 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