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Are there Church of God pastors who are too big (celebrity, large churches, multi site campuses) and have gained status beyond involvement in the denominational hierarchy?

Jentezen Franklin is a COG ordained bishop whose status transcends any executive involvement of the COG. Jentezen Franklin is the Senior Pastor of Free Chapel, a multi-campus church with a global reach. His church is an affiliate church in the denomination (I would like some clarity on that) What is an afiliate church in the denomination?

Are there Church of God congregations that are out growing the denomination? I believe there are and the denomination is struggling to keep these Churches.

What are your thoughts?

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  1. There are also a number of ministers who carry credentials with the COG but minister primarily outside of the COG.

  2. I would comment on this, Charles, but you people can’t handle the truth!

  3. Charles Page says:

    “We” don’t have inside access to the truth
    Rules forbid disclosure

  4. Should I comment, I would begin with: “God must love denominations…He made so many of them!”

  5. Charles Page says:

    Denomination came into being w/o God’s help

  6. Charles Page says:

    Perry Stone doesn’t hold COG credentials

  7. Link Hudson says:

    Free Chapel used to be Congregational Holiness. I had a conversation with a CH official about three months ago and asked him if Free Chapel, where Jentzen Franklin ministers in Gainseville, GA, is CH or not.

    He said that it is still CH. I asked if the pastors there were ordained with CH. (I was wondering if Mark Rutland was, for example.) He said Jentzen Franklin was pretty strict about making sure they were.

    The CH denominational official and I talked a bit about how megachurches within denominations stop using the name of the denomination, usually, and speculated on the reasons why. My dad goes to Free Chapel and didn’t know whether it was still CH.

    Can JF be ordained as a bishop in the COG and pastor in another denomination and hold credentials with that denomination?

  8. Regarding denominations, each one started out with a move of God. Then after being in existence for 100 years (which is about the third or fourth generation), they forsake the very doctrines, particularly that of holiness and sanctification, and fail in their once held standards, and accept the modern trends of society. Where once revivals and deep moves of the Spirit permeated the very essence of the church, they substitute things in their place. Church History reveals this occurrence with every denomination. Church History also reveals that not one time has God ever revived such a denomination. He simply starts and established new ones. That is why we have so many denominations today.

  9. When I found the truth about this it came down to earthly kingdoms and sowing seeds of money, they use to grow money trees I assume and lots of books for sale. As for their affiliation I dont know.

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