110 years ago, ministers, who had been using the name…

110 years ago, ministers, who had been using the name “Holiness Church,” adopted the name “Church of God” at the second General Assembly meeting at the Union Grove (TN) church, shown here in a later photo. Pastor and Assembly Moderator, A.J. Tomlinson, later recorded, “At a session held at 8:30 on Friday morning, January 11, 1907, the name ‘Church of God’ was adopted, with the addition of the name of the place or locality where it existed…. This, however, was not meant to debar the use of the other Scriptural names, such as ‘The Church,’ ‘Churches in Christ,’ ‘Church….in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,’ etc.”