Young were appointed as a committee by C. Desiring to learn more about the work of the Holy Spirit in the church, C. In 1898, these men were expelled from preaching in local Baptist churches under the Mississippi State Convention.īy 1906, the church had grown to nearly 100 congregations in three states. After testifying to being sanctified, members of the church referred to themselves as "Saints," believing that they were set apart to live a daily life of Christian Holiness in words and deeds. Jeter was selected as Overseer of Arkansas. Mason was selected as Overseer of Tennessee, and J. Jones was elected the General Overseer, C. This Holiness group/fellowship adopted the name Church of God in Christ, and COGIC began to develop congregations throughout the South. He believed that the name, taken from 1 Thessalonians 2:14, was divinely revealed and biblically inspired. Mason stated that God had given him such a name for the group, the "Church of God in Christ". Later in 1897, while in Little Rock, Arkansas, C. Mason sought a name to distinguish his Holiness group from others. Since so many new holiness groups and fellowships were forming that used the name "Church of God," C. They rejected denominational names such as Baptist, Methodist, or Episcopal. At its first convocation held in 1897, the group identified simply as the "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". Paul Church in Lexington, Mississippi, as the first church of the new movement. The leadership of the Mississippi State Convention of the National Baptist Convention intervened and expelled Jones, Mason, and others who embraced the Wesleyan teaching of entire sanctification. Some of these African-American Baptist pastors in local Southern areas such as Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas considered Jones and Mason to be controversial. Protestant doctrinal debates about Calvinism and Wesleyan Perfectionism affected how even local African-American Baptist pastors responded to new Christian movements at the time. Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, attended by Mason and others from several states. In June 1896, Jones held a Holiness convention at Mt. He testified to receiving entire sanctification after reading her autobiography in 1893. Her life story led many African-Americans into the Holiness movement, including Mason. 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. Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippi who began teaching and preaching a Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection or entire sanctification as a second work of grace to their Baptist congregations. The Church of God in Christ was formed in 1897 by a group of disfellowshipped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones (1865–1949) and Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961). 6.7 United National Auxiliary Conference (UNAC) and Auxiliaries in Ministry (AIM)īackground Holiness origins. 6.6.2 Influence of COGIC on gospel music.
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