However, COGIC teaches and preaches 10 major doctrines of Christianity that include:

COGIC is trinitarian and teaches that there is one God eternally existent in three persons expressed as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

COGIC teaches the deity of Jesus Christ.

COGIC teaches that the Holy Spirit is alive and active in the world.

When one is baptized in the Holy Spirit, COGIC teaches that the believer will speak in a language unknown by that person by the will of God.

COGIC teaches that Demons are real and they are evil or unclean spirits.

COGIC teaches that Man was created perfect and sinless in the image of God as a tripartite being having a body, soul, and spirit.

COGIC teaches that sin originated in eternity when Satan committed open rebellion against God in heaven.

COGIC teaches that salvation is the work of redemption to the sinner and his restoration to divine favor and communion with God.

Though COGIC teaches that salvation is a work of grace brought about through faith in Jesus Christ.

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.

COGIC teaches that according to the Word of God, their will be final events and conditions that address the end of this present age of the world.

There are more than 15, 000 COGIC congregations found throughout the world.

A progressive and visionary leader, Bishop Blake is leading COGIC to become a greater global ministry primarily in Africa and Latin America while at the same time investing in the inner city where many COGIC congregations are located.

The church believes that there are three works of grace ( salvation, sanctification, spirit baptism ) that God bestows on believers often testified by many COGIC saints in this affirmation, " I am saved, sanctified, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.

It includes not only those who are members of COGIC, but all believers who have placed their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

These auxiliaries are found in nearly every church, district, and jurisdiction within COGIC and function to support the wholistic approach that COGIC has toward ministry within the church and the larger community that COGIC congregations serve.

Historically, women in ministry in COGIC are known as missionaries and are designated in two categories — Deaconess Missionary and Evangelist Missionary.

Today thousands of COGIC women when ministering the gospel or serving in official capacities are seen in their civic ( black ) or ceremonial ( white ) habits.

The purpose of the YPWW as stated in the COGIC official manual is as follows: “ You are evidently aware of the fact that true religious education consists of instruction and practical expressions of the truths learned.

When the Assemblies of God was founded in 1914, invitations were sent only to white Pentecostal ministers including 350 white ministers licensed through COGIC.

In addition to his own efforts, Bishop Mason sent dozens of charismatic preachers and evangelists to major cities and urban areas north and west to spread COGIC including William Roberts ( Chicago ), O. M.

Upon his return to Tennessee from the Azusa Street Revival, Mason began preaching and teaching the Pentecostal message in COGIC congregations.

Antonio Burke, pastor for the Center of Love Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ), leads Sailors from amphibious transport dock USS Nashville ( LPD-13 ) in a prayer before building a house for Habitat for Humanity in Norfolk, Va.

In 1988, after a thirteen year exodus from COGIC, Bishop G. E.

Since its creation, the PCCNA has had a co-chair leadership, one of which has always been a COGIC bishop, usually a member of the General Board, and the other from one of the member organizations of the now defunct PFNA.

As a Holiness church of the Wesleyan tradition, COGIC believes that Sanctification is " that gracious and continuous operation of the Holy Ghost, by which He delivers the justified sinner from the pollution of sin, renews his whole nature in the image of God and enables him to perform good works ".

After marrying COGIC preacher Thomas Thorpe ( from which " Tharpe " is a misspelling ) in 1934.

* Church of God, an International Community ( COGIC )-The church founded by David Hulme following his departure from UCG in 1998 after being removed from the presidency.

and Alpha Stewart held the family together under the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) and encouraged musical expression in the household.

As part of the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ), they encouraged musical expression in the household.

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

Later in 1897, while in Little Rock, AR, Mason believed that God had given him such a name for the group, the " Church of God in Christ " ( COGIC ).

Later that same year, Mason called a meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, and reorganized the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) as a Pentecostal-Holiness body.

The most notable rift occurred in 1969 when 14 bishops met in Evanston, IL left COGIC to form the Church of God in Christ, International because they disagreed with the electoral process in selecting the Presiding Bishop.

In recent years, COGIC, the Assemblies of God, and other Pentecostal denominations and ministries have dedicated themselves to reconciling and healing the vestiges of racism within Pentecostalism, which separated on racial lines in 1914, by working together in common ministries.

The FGBCF has an annual Summer Convention that convenes in Atlanta, Georgia every year, much like the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) has its Annual Holy Convocation in Memphis, Tennessee every year.

Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) and the United Holy Church look at each other as sister organizations.

The name Church of God in Christ was widely held by both groups until 1915, when Bishop C. H. Mason had the name COGIC, incorporated.

In 1921 Bell left Atkins to become a travelling evangelist for the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ).

COGIC drafted and approved a new constitution that dissolved the office of the Senior Bishop and the Executive Board and created the office of the Presiding Bishop and a General Board who would be elected every four years to preside over the church.

Bishop Ford is most notably credited with bringing President Bill Clinton, who was a personal friend and the only U. S. president to ever physically address COGIC at Mason Temple, during the Eighty-Sixth International Holy Convocation on November 13, 1993.

As a Pentecostal church, COGIC believes that Speaking in tongues is the consequence of Spirit baptism and is given to believers who ask for it.

As a Pentecostal church, COGIC believes that the Baptism of the Holy Ghost is an experience subsequent to salvation and can be experienced by all believers who ask for it.

COGIC continues to influence gospel music with a whole new generation of artists with COGIC roots that include: Kim Burell, Kierra Sheard, J. Moss, Micah Stampley, Kurt Carr, Ricky Dillard, Kelly Price, Mary Mary, Tamela Mann, Earnest Pugh, DuShawn Washington and Michelle Williams, The current leader of the International Music Department in Dr. Judith Cristie McAlister of Nashville, TN, who is also a major praise and worship national recording artist.

In the 1970s, after Ruth, who was affectionately called Baby Sis, had passed, their agent booked the group into Washington Temple COGIC in Brooklyn, New York for a concert.