Rev. Michael Lee Smith, Elizabethtown, KY
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With this post I resume with a topic that generated the most heated debate at the Church of God 2010 General Assembly: the admission of women to the rank of Ordained Bishops. (For my Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox friends, the term “Ordained Bishop” has a different meaning than a diocesan: in addition to including those […]

Jackie David Johns, May 20, 2022 Cheryl is finishing 37 years as a professor at PTS. God has called her to minister at United Seminary in Ohio. She will be the Director of the House of Global Pentecostal Studies and teach part-time. [Most of her work will be online and she will not be moving, […]

I was ordained under W. J. Brown, state overseer of southern Ohio in 1974. He helped me to be ordained before I went to Turkey.

Are Women about to become ordained bishops in the Church of God. Will women now be elders? How many women are the husband of one wife?

In Church Growth Seminars, it has always been emphasized that if a local church has a majority of its membership, or those in attendance, that is comprised of older people (age group 50+) as its congregation, it is a dying church. Do you know the same principle applies to the General Church. Notice the attached […]

Church of God General Assembly, Nashville 2016 “ordained ministers 25 years of age and older” Rationale: “….the motion, if passed, provides greater incentive for attendance to International General Assemblies and ministerial credential advancement….” Premise: A lot was said about ordaining younger ministers around the 2012 Assembly. The proposed Item 25, properly numbered recommending lowering the […]