Usual titles are Your Holiness for a patriarch ( with Your All-Holiness for the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ), Your Beatitude for an archbishop in charge of an autocephalous church, Your Eminence for an archbishop, Master or Your Grace for a bishop and Father for priests, deacons and monks though there are variations between the various Orthodox Churches.

The town of LaGrange offers two churches, LaGrange Holiness Chapel, and a non-denominational Bible church simply named LaGrange Bible Church.

Mason's visit to what was known as the Azusa Street Revival changed the direction of the newly formed Holiness church.

The segment of believers who continued to follow Jones and Jeter rejecting the new Pentecostal teaching of the baptism of the Holy Ghost continued as a Holiness church and became the of Christ ( Holiness ) U. S. A. in 1915.

Spurling often worshiped with the small fellowship and was the driving force behind its 1902 decision to organize into a church, called the Holiness Church at Camp Creek.

The Patriarch of Serbia serves as first among equals in his church ; The current patriarch is His Holiness Irinej.

The Church of God is a Pentecostal church in the Wesleyan Holiness tradition.

Several ministers who were raised in the Pentecostal Holiness Church have come to have greater name recognition than the church itself, such as Oral Roberts, an internationally known charismatic evangelist ; Charles Stanley, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention ; and C. M.

For the next eight years, the church would be known as " The Holiness Church of North Carolina ".

Upon returning to Dunn, North Carolina, on December 31, 1906, Cashwell preached the Pentecostal experience in the local Holiness church.

The church was chartered in 1925 as the Southeastern Association of the Congregational Holiness Church and changed in 1965 to the Congregational Holiness Church, Inc ..

The early leaders of the CHC attempted to democratize church government, preferring congregational rule over the Pentecostal Holiness Church's episcopal polity.

The Church of God ( Holiness ) began in 1886 with the founding of a church in Centralia, Missouri.

With roots in the earliest years of the American Pentecostalism, much of the culture of the church reflects the doctrine of the Holiness movement of the 1800s.

Originating when the African American members of the integrated Fire-Baptized Holiness Church withdrew to form their own organization, the church was founded at Greer, South Carolina in 1908.

In 2003 the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God had about 160 congregations, mostly on the east coast of the United States, but also including one church each in Canada, England, and the Virgin Islands, and 15 congregations in Jamaica.

This church was organized as the outgrowth of a Holiness revival sparked by the meetings held by Isaac Cheshier at Method, North Carolina ( a suburb of Raleigh ), in 1886.

In the early 1900s, the church added a Pentecostal understanding to its Holiness emphasis.

Bishops ' Council, General Board of Bishops, Board of Elders ( district and general church levels ), District Board of Presbytery, District Presidents, District Elders, District & General Departments of Evangelism & Extension, Missions, Ushers, Music, YPHA ( Young Peoples ' Holy Association ), BCS ( Bible Church School ), Publications, and the Holiness Union.

The church teaches " old-fashioned Holiness " in matters of conduct and dress, but also understands there are different levels of commitment and regards this as a matter of the individual conscience. ¹

Jones conducted a Holiness convention from June 6-15 at the church he pastored, Mt.

These congregations were the culmination of Warner's desire for non-sectarian Holiness congregations, of which he had dreamed of since January 31, 1878 when he noted in his diary: " On the 31st of last January the Lord showed me that holiness could never prosper upon sectarian soil encumbered by human creeds and party names, and he gave me a new commission to join holiness and all truth together and build up the apostolic church of the living God.

There are also the IEMELIF Reform Movement ( IRM ), The Wesleyan ( Pilgrim Holiness ) Church of the Philippines, the Philippine Bible Methodist Church, Inc., the Pentecostal Free Methodist Church, Inc., the Fundamental Christian Methodist Church, The Reformed Methodist Church, Inc., The Methodist Church of the Living Bread, Inc., and the Wesley Evangelical Methodist Church & Mission, Inc.

In 1968 it became a Wesleyan Church with the merger of the Wesleyan Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness denominations.

The United Methodist Church ( UMC ) is also a member of the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium, which seeks to reconceive and promote Biblical holiness in today's Church.

Churches established in the city in later years include Beech Grove Wesleyan Church ( formerly Pilgrim Holiness Church, in the 1920s ); Independent Nazarene Church ( in the 1950s ); Faith Assembly of God ( Assemblies of God, 1958 ); South Emerson Church of God ( Reformation Movement, Church of God ( Anderson ), 1961 ); Southwood Baptist Church ( Southern Baptist Convention, 1962 ); and Ascension Lutheran Church ( Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, 1972 ).

Such Arminians largely comprise the eight million or so Christians who today constitute the Christian Holiness Association ( the Salvation Army, the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, etc.

2009 < http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 639965 / Wesleyan-Methodist-Church-of-America >.</ ref > In 1968, the Wesleyan Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness denominations merged to form the Wesleyan Church.

The Church of the Nazarene is currently a member of the Christian Holiness Partnership, the Global Wesleyan Alliance, the National Association of Evangelicals, the World Methodist Council, Mission Exchange ( formerly the Evangelical Fellowship of Missions Agencies ), the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium, and the Wesleyan Holiness Study Project.

Among the new denominations formed by those seceding or being expelled from the Church of the Nazarene are: the People's Mission Church ( 1912 ), which had become part of the Church of the Nazarene in 1911, but subsequently became part of the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1925 ; the Pentecost Pilgrim Church ( 1917 ), which merged with the International Holiness Union to form the Pilgrim Holiness Church in 1922 ; the Bible Missionary Church ( 1955 ), which subsequently split to create the Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches ( 1959 ), and the Nazarene Baptist Church ( 1960 ) ( later Nazarene Bible Church in 1967 ); the Holiness Church of the Nazarene ( 1961 ) in the Philippines ; the Church of the Bible Covenant ( 1967 ); the Crusaders Churches of the United States of America ( 1972 ); and the Fellowship of Charismatic Nazarenes ( 1977 ).

Grace, Faith & Holiness: A Wesleyan Systematic Theology.

During the 1968 merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Pilgrim Holiness Church which formed the Wesleyan Church, the Allegheny Conference and the Tennessee Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and some churches of the Pilgrim Holiness Church did not approve of the merger and several new holiness denominations were formed.

There were many other influences and much cross-fertilization between the different traditions, and indeed His Holiness the Dalai Lama has asserted that it is acceptable for those initiated in one Kalachakra tradition to practice in others.

Later on His Holiness the Dalai Lama would regard Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as his principal teacher in the Nyingma tradition and of Dzogchen.

In time, however, the popularity of the jubilee style spread from the universities to black churches, where quartets, singing before audiences with a tradition of enthusiastic response, began to absorb much of the energy and freedom of Gospel music coming out of Holiness churches.

Even in the challenging times of 1959 His Holiness the Sakya Trizin maintained the tradition.

From the mid-1920s onward Watchman Nee, strongly influenced by Plymouth Brethren ideas ( especially premillennialism ) but also by a stress on the Holy Spirit derived from the Holiness tradition, was an inspiring and compelling teacher.

The Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership.

The growth of COGIC at the time of Bishop Mason's death gives credence to his untiring efforts to teach and preach the Pentecostal-Holiness message and his exceptional leadership in building a comprehensive organization fulfilling the prophetic vision of COGIC that Holiness would cover the Earth.

A son of the ministry of Bishop Mason, Bishop Ford dedicated himself to returning COGIC to its emphasis on basic " Holiness ".

Known for his eloquent and extensive vocabulary, astute entrepreneural skills, and organizational leadership, Bishop Owens led COGIC in its centennial celebration in 1997 with the theme, " Holiness, a Proven Foundation for a Promising Future!