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COGIC also teaches that all the spiritual gifts are for believers today. [51] COGIC teaches that the church is the community of Christian believers who have accepted Jesus Christ and submit to his Lordship and authority in their lives. It can be spoken of as the individual and the collective, physical and spiritual.
Internationally, COGIC can be found in more than 100 nations. Its worldwide membership is estimated to be between six and eight million, [5] composing more than 25,000 congregations throughout the world. The following is a list of the geographical dioceses of the denomination, which are called "jurisdictions", and the leader of each.*
Charles Blake was born on August 5, 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the late Bishop Junious Augustus (J. A.) Blake, Sr. and the late Evangelist Lula M. Blake.He has one older brother, J. A. Blake, Jr., who is also a bishop and pastor in the COGIC denomination in San Diego, California.
John Drew Sheard Jr. (born January 1, 1959) [1] is an American pastor and minister from Detroit, Michigan, who is the current presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a six million-member predominantly African-American Holiness Pentecostal denomination that has now grown to become one of the largest African-American Pentecostal denominations in the United States.
COGIC evangelist leader Louise Patterson, wife of the late G.E. Patterson, died Sunday evening at 84.
The school began classes in 1918 and eventually became Saint's College. The college was the major institution of higher learning for COGIC youth until closed in 1976. [5] In 1926, Mason further organized COGIC by authorizing the church's constitution outlining the bylaws, rules, and regulations of the church.
Bountiful Blessing Television Broadcasts. It is the home church of the former Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ. Its services are carried out on satellite by Black Entertainment Television, Trinity Broadcast Network and The Word Network.
Grace Communion International, formerly the Worldwide Church of God, which has repudiated virtually all Armstrongist beliefs starting in the late 1980s; Church of God International (United States), based in Tyler, Texas