“When the Fire Fell”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Marovich
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Music ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Church Community ◽  
In Christ ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Apostolic Church

This chapter examines the sanctified churches' contribution to the development of Chicago gospel music. Female evangelist Mattie L. Thornton is considered the organizer of Chicago's first sanctified church, the Holy Nazarene Tabernacle Apostolic Church, around 1908. By 1919, about twenty Holiness churches had been established throughout the city. This chapter first considers Holiness and Pentecostal movements with sanctified denominations that played significant roles in planting the seeds of gospel music in Chicago, including the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). It then profiles two leaders in the COGIC church community whose progeny would become important figures in gospel music: Bishop William Roberts and Elder Eleazar Lenox. It also explores how gospel music and sermon recordings became a way for sanctified churches to spread their message beyond the confines of the church walls, focusing on such artists as Arizona Dranes and preachers like Rev. William Arthur White, Rev. Ford Washington McGee, Rev. D. C. Rice, and Rev. Leora Ross.

“Move On Up a Little Higher”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Marovich
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Music ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Gospel Singing ◽  
Music Recording ◽  
Religious Festival

This chapter focuses on the explosion of gospel music recording in Chicago during the 1940s. One of the first Chicago gospel singers to record for an indie label in the immediate postwar period was Brother John Sellers. Meanwhile, his mentor, Mahalia Jackson, recorded the song “Move on Up a Little Higher,” for Apollo Records. This chapter examines some of the recordings made by Chicago gospel artists for Apollo Records, including the Roberta Martin Singers' “Old Ship of Zion,” as well as those by independent Chicago-based record companies like Hy-Tone Records. It also discusses the recordings of Rev. John Branham and the St. Paul Echoes of Eden Choir, Sallie Martin, and Louis Henry Ford and the St. Paul Church of God in Christ Choir. Finally, it considers the broadcasts of the Greater Harvest Baptist Church and the Forty-Fourth Street Baptist Church; the 1948 National Baptist Music Convention held in Houston, Texas; the Argo Singers; and gospel singing during the Religious Festival of Song, part of Chicago's annual Bud Billiken Parade.

scholarly journals Baptisan Anak Dalam Pengakuan Iman Westminster dan Katekismus Heilderberg

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Deniati Deniati ◽  
Yesaya Adhi Widjaya
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
Church Community ◽  
Church Discipline ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The Church

Baptism is one of the sacraments recognized by the church and is believed to be a seal for believers, and a sign of Christ's ownership. However, if you look at the practice in the church, many questions will arise, both regarding the instruments used in baptizing and the subjects to be baptized (children or adults). This is due to a lack of understanding of baptism as well as differences in interpretation of the Bible and the confession of faith used in the church. This difference results in the emergence of conflicts between churches and the courage of certain sects, thus making statements that the other sects are wrong or right. Despite believing or using the same Bible and creed, each church has a different understanding and way of implementing baptism in the church. Therefore, the church needs to be sensitive to this. The Church of God needs to have the same unity or standard of truth, so that in carrying out church discipline, it remains in accordance with the truth of God's Word, the Bible. Seeing the gaps or facts that occur in the church of God, the purpose of writing this paper is to show the views of two faith confessions recognized by the Reformed church regarding child baptism and show how the practice of baptism should be practiced in the church community of God.

“If God be for you, who can be against you?”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Kornweibel,
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Church Of God ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
In Christ ◽  
First World ◽  
The Church

This chapter explains how during the First World War the Bureau of Investigation (the FBI’s official name at the time) targeted the Church of God in Christ, one of the nation's largest Pentecostal denominations. The author Theodore Kornweibel, who has written extensively on the Federal government’s campaigns against black militancy in the period during and following World War I, examines the nature and consequences of this episode that marked the Bureau's first formal engagement with an American religious community.

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