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I transferred my credentials from the A/G to the CoG nearly 18 years ago and never have regretted my decision.

Brojames

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Re: I have been AG since 1986

Re: Have any of you transferred from COG to AG?

Just wondering. Did they ask if you were willing to give up complete and total sanctification and trade it in for progressive sanctification.

I'm thinking of a Dr. Seuss book that was read to me when I was a little kid about these little creature that discriminated against each other based on whether they had an X or an O on them. And there was a machine that would change the letters. We should love members of the body of Christ whether they put the letters COG or A/G on them or no letters at all. I can't speak from personal experience with the ordination, though I've actually got ordination/license through a local church that is A/G but nto through the A/G denomination.The A/G is set up kind of like Southern Baptists with each congregation having a lot of autonomy. I believe the denomination ordains, then church boards can vote on pastors and make financial decisions, with each church being set up to a certain extent the way it wants to be. The one I went to when I was younger had a board of 'deacons' like a Baptist church. Another one I went to seemed to do whatever Jimmy Swaggart wanted, but they aren't in the denomination anymore. I get the impression that a lot of COG's are more 'country', but maybe that's because my experience is in the southeast and folks are country. I visited to an A/G in the south where the pastor sounded like he was from up north and every one in the town was southern. I get the impression that A/Gs might be more likely to use 'the sinner's prayer' approach. Depending on the church, they may be a bit less into certain brands of southern Pentecostal enthusiasm and just a little more reserved. But that varies, too. And some A/Gs are more Charismatic in terms of style. None of that seems to be true of the COG in Indonesia. The A/G is a much smaller denomination than the COG there, and some COG services go by the name 'Karismatic.' But an English A/G service in Jakarta has 'Charismatic' in the title there in Indonesia, too. And I've seen COG preachers in Indonesia rush people through a sinner's prayer as if that saves them without explaining the gospel first. I know there are Pentecostals who do that here, but I haven't seen it as much in the Pentecostal denominations that were historically a part of the Holiness movement as I have in the denominations that are big in the western part of the US

AG. The large churches have more power. Like if you want to plant a church within a hundred miles of Jacksonville...a large church exercises veto power. If you plant it anyway...your license is taken. So for those of you that feel the large churches have a minimal voice in the COG...the AG might be the right fit

His official board, he was a weak pastor. I'm not aware of any bylaws anywhere that give the board of deacons/official Board that authority. The board recommends candidates to the congregation for their approval. And it takes a majority of the congregation to vote out a oastor. Now, if a board is exercising undue Influence over a pastor then he's a weak leader. And, he needs to promote some more helpful people to be elected to the board. If a pastor was voted out by a board he was probably In trouble with the congregation too. But, if not then the pastor can call his district supt. to come in and mediate with his board if he wants.

Very well acquainted with this church planting problem in Jacksonville. It is real