Church Of God

Church Of God


I.  ORIGIN


Most of the Pentecostal churches which bear the name "Church of God" can be

traced to a holiness revival in the mountains of northwest Georgia and eastern

Tennessee.  In 1884, R.G. Spurling, a Baptist minister in Monroe County,

Tennessee, began to search the Scriptures for answers to the problems of

modernism, formality, and spiritual dryness.  An initial meeting of concerned

people was held on August 19, 1886, at the Barney Creek Meeting House to

organize a new movement that would preach primitive church holiness and provide

for reform and revival of the churches.  Christian Union was the name accepted

by the first eight members enrolled that day.  Spurling died within a few months

and was succeeded in leadership by his son, R.G. Spurling, Jr.  After ten years

of little growth, three laymen influenced by the Spurlings' work claimed a deep

religious experience similar to that written about by John Wesley, the founder

of Methodism, and as a result began to preach sanctification. The three laymen

began to hold services at Camp Creek, in Cherokee County, North Carolina, among

a group of unaffiliated Baptists, Spurling and the Christian Union moved their

services to Camp Creek and united with the group in North Carolina.  During this

revival that followed this merger, spontaneous speaking in tongues occurred.

After searching the Scriptures, the group recognized the phenomena as a Biblical

occurrence and as a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit.


II.  BASI
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