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The Church of God has drastically changed, hasn't it? Before…

3 years ago • May 28, 2023 • by ourCOG

The Church of God has drastically changed, hasn’t it?

Before the 80s a few people would be moved to shout and dance fervently before before the Lord. Most people stood and watched them appreciatively. It was called “the Holy Ghost fell” in the service. It led to congregational worship and then folks spontaneously coming down to the altar without being called!

After the 80s The congregation sways, swishes (sa-shays) and waltzes to a fervent drum beat and say it is the Holy Boast!

Now today a few stand still, unmoved (they don’t know the words -as though that would have any meaning) They are not appreciative but they are old. They lean over to a neighbor and say: we didn’t do it this way back in my day.

Now everybody knows what they are saying and they complain that they don’t like their style.

How does the church bridge the gap? It doesn’t – the old people die off and a new generation arises. What happens to Pentecostalism. Go to a modern Baptist and Methodist Church if you wan t to see what goes on in a neo-Church of God.

You aren’t going to hear any tongues in either.

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16 comments

  1. Gary Jones says:
    September 18, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    There has to be a way to bridge the gap. But both sides have to give and take. When I was pastoring in Florida our Praise and worship team would do 4 songs. We always did 2 older songs they liked and 2 songs that were somewhat newer. It didn’t matter. The older folks gripped anyway. Truth is, without gaining new young families at the church in Florida, 10 years from now the doors will be padlocked. I guess shame on me for trying.

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  2. Charles Page says:
    September 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    The old have to die off
    You can’t make a new COG with old people
    It’s not civil to kick them out

    Old people have to learn to be silent

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  3. Gary Jones says:
    September 18, 2016 at 7:36 pm

    If that’s the case the church in Florida will shut it’s doors. They don’t want to grow and we’re not going to kick them out. There is a way to coexist. My 73 year old mother whom is COG all her life is proof.

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  4. Charles Page says:
    September 18, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    she will not be around a lot longer. I am fixing to turn 70 in another month and I plan to live as a disturber in the new churches. I have a few years left.

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  5. Charles Page says:
    September 18, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    My father is 92 and mom is 88 and they have to just keep their mouth shut at church. They don’t like it either but they are helpless to make changes. They accept it as “the Lord is coming soon”

    They also don’t agree with my views and opposition, if that offers you some consolation. I will obey God rather than man.

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  6. Melvin Harter says:
    September 18, 2016 at 11:19 pm

    One Executive CoG member stated some years ago after the change of its Teachings that the older people would need to be put on the shelf. Time has proven that he was right because that is exactly what happened to them.

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  7. Tim Hall says:
    September 18, 2016 at 11:56 pm

    I so miss my church. I fear that within the next 5-6 years should Jesus tarry it will be difficult to find old time Pentecost. The church as we know it,
    Or should I say as we knew it is almost extinct. We have changed so much and I don’t think most of it is for the good. Much of our so called worship is just a fleshly display of talents and in some instances almost pornographic in nature. We have women leading worship half naked and exposing much of their body, pants so tight they leave nothing to the imagination and dress/skirts that show a lot of flesh that only a husband should see.

    We have bands instead of worship and music that drowns the singing out and very rarely sing hums and old songs. We don’t have much preaching anymore we use dramas and dancing that resembles a rock or worldly concert. And may I ask where is the anointed preaching that brings conviction and why is there not much preaching on sin. Where is the interruption in our services of the Holy Ghost. Why are we seeing many Baptist and Methodist churches with more spirit that most Pentecost churches . I’m not anti-Baptist or anti-Methodist with those remarks. We are so programmed that we don’t have room for the Holy Ghost and we don’t have time for prayer and altar services.

    The modern church looks like a dim
    Light dance hall and feels like a Night club. I may be old fashioned but I ask the question what was wrong with what we had and what we saw 20 years ago. Who made the decision to do something new? Who decided a new age needed a new thing? Can I have my old church back!

    Can I have the old time Holy Ghost again! Is anyone else disturbed?

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  8. Melvin Harter says:
    September 19, 2016 at 12:20 am

    Brother Tim Hall, there is nothing one can do. They will never go back. Your only option is to separate yourself from churches described in your posting and start in a different direction. Just remember, God will always have a people who still believe in holiness and the power of the Holy Ghost.

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  9. Link Hudson says:
    September 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm

    In the old style COG, did you hear a lot of prophesying or interpretation of the tongues? Hearing tongues in church doesn’t seem all that desireable, according to Paul, unless their is interpertation. But we should covet to prophesy. We are to edify one another.

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  10. Gary Jones says:
    September 19, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    All the time in my church

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  11. Charles Page says:
    September 19, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    in my upbringing I heard a lot till I left for the Army in 1966. It was a common practice. We had a prophet who ministered on a regular basis until he was appointed to a Church and is still pastoring that Church and was honored in the last Camp meeting in Tennessee along with about 30 other pastors who had long term pastorates.

    I returned from the Army in 68 enrolled in Lee and from that time on I heard very little prophecying.

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  12. Link Hudson says:
    September 19, 2016 at 6:02 pm

    Charles Page If exercise of the gifts are getting less or over time, maybe the place to look is the 1960’s and ask why prophesying seemed to happen less often rather than skipping ahead to now and asking why people stopped speaking in tongues in church.

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  13. Levi Allen Goff says:
    September 20, 2016 at 4:25 am

    Church of God definitely is anointed. Though it is worth taking notation that any human construct will fall if Christ is not the head. I feel what you’re saying though.

    The youth are full of dreams, while the old are filled with visions.

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  14. Levi Allen Goff says:
    September 20, 2016 at 4:28 am

    I wish I could go to Lee, sadly I don’t have the funds…

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  15. Jim Price says:
    September 20, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    Think back to the teaching and preaching of Jesus and you come up with quiet scenes where people were sitting down and listening. Even now most christians think of church as a place where there is order, everybody sings together on the same page, on the same stanza and when someone is speaking others listen. You speak of a unique culture that has found it’s expression only in the last 100 years or so. A hint at how loud we ought to be is found in Mt.6:6 ” But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

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