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You Are Welcome 
at the Church of God

Who Are We?

We are friendly folk. We worship together, work together right here in your community. We're just average people, trying to raise our families, pay our debts, make ends meet and be good Christians. We like to have new faces in our congregation, and we like to see those new faces come back again and again. Our church doors are open to you. 

But as a church, Just who are we?

The name out front labels our place of worship as a "Church of God." So what is the reason for our use of the name "Church of God"? We go by that name because we find the term often applied to the early church in the New Testament. We like to get as close as we can to those early days and the teachings of Christ. 

But Church of God has other meanings for us.

To us, the term can apply to all Christians who have given their lives to Christ. By using that name we want to identify ourselves with all born-again Christians, no matter what barriers some of them may raise among themselves.

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We use that name because we want to witness that we are a part of the one church that Christ founded.

 

Our Affiliation...

Well, What Do We Stand For?

One thing we think is very important is the unity of all of God's children in the one Church which Jesus Christ established through his ministry long ago. We try to put that belief into practice in various ways. One way is by recognizing every person who shows that he or she has a real Christian experience as an actual member of our group. Thus, we have no formal Church membership. You become a member of the body of Christ by accepting His salvation.

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Of course there are other convictions that hold the Church of God people together. We place a great deal of emphasis upon the Bible, and when people ask us about our creed we often just point at the Bible and say: "There it is!" Each person studies the Bible, meditates upon it, makes use of the best advice available about it, looks to the Holy Spirit - it's remarkable how closely we all come out together. The Bible describes the way of salvation, and so we stress evangelism a great deal.

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In the end our beliefs count most when they are lived out. There are no hypocrites who are really in the Church of God, for by our definition of church membership, only genuine Christians belong.

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Our Pursuit...

About the Church of God Movement

We simply try to live by the Bible and the guidance of God and back our actions with the love of Christ.

 

This congregation tries to carry out its work and its business affairs under the guidance of the Holy Spirit with dignity and yet with enthusiasm. We think the church has an educational as well as an evangelistic task, and so we carry on Sunday school classes, prayer meetings and many other local activities. We meet for worship, for praise, for prayer and for fellowship. We serve the community.

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We also have Christian interests beyond our Church of God boundaries, thus we join with congregations across the country in carrying on overseas mission work and assisting churches in more than forty-six countries, in sponsoring church colleges, in publishing Christian literature, in caring for our aging ministers, in promoting Christian education, in broadcasting the gospel worldwide, in extending our work into new communities and among underprivileged people right here in North America. We are concerned with emergency help and disaster wherever it occurs. Our general offices are in Anderson, Indiana.

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We are a fast-growing group of earnest Christians.

 

We invite you to worship with us.

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