Church of the Great God - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Church of the Great God (CGG) is one of the churches to form in the wake of the Worldwide Church of God

Worldwide Church of God

Grace Communion International , formerly the Worldwide Church of God , is an evangelical Christian denomination based in Glendora, California, United States. Since April 3, 2009, it has used the new name Grace Communion International in the US...

's major doctrinal revisions of the 1980s and 1990s. The CGG, headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina

Fort Mill, South Carolina

Fort Mill is a fast-growing suburban town in both York and Lancaster counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, and a suburb of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rock Hill...

, decided upon a quiet course of dissent in relation to the changes in the parent church's doctrine, and followed the example of Herbert W. Armstrong

Herbert W. Armstrong

Herbert W. Armstrong founded the Worldwide Church of God in the late 1930s, as well as Ambassador College in 1946, and was an early pioneer of radio and tele-evangelism, originally taking to the airwaves in the 1930s from Eugene, Oregon...

when he left the Church of God, Seventh Day by not attacking the WCG or its leaders or proselyting the members of the WCG or its other splinter groups.

Formation

The Church of the Great God was organized with 20 members on January 11, 1992, with the primary leadership core consisting of John Ritenbaugh, John Reid, Martin Collins, and Richard Ritenbaugh.

Membership

CGG is small in membership, with about 400 persons attending services each week in about 50 small groups in the United States, Canada, and Port of Spain, Trinidad. Other smaller groups are located in France, the Philippines, Australia, South Africa, and Zambia. Membership growth is slow, primarily due to the emphasis upon "feeding the flock" with little effort to proselytize new members, except through their websites. The church indicates it has "over 1,500 people" on their active postal mailing list, nearly 41,000 receiving its magazine, Forerunner, and over 78,800 subscribers to their daily email newsletter, "The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment." An indeterminable number attend virtual Sabbath services at home each week by listening to the Fort Mill, South Carolina, congregation's services via live Windows Media and RealAudio stream.

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