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Prayer Garden Church of God in Christ

📍651 North 6th Street, San Jose, CA ✝church_of_god_in_christ
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AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Inherited from denomination

What Church of God in Christ teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Affirms
Denies
  • Apostolic Successionstandard
    Congregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
  • Assumption of Marystandard
    Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
  • Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsSTRONG
    Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
  • Immaculate ConceptionSTRONG
    Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
  • Infant BaptismSTRONG
    Baptist confessions (New Hampshire; BFM 2000 VII); Anabaptist / Schleitheim; Pentecostal fundamentals
  • Perpetual Virginity of Marystandard
    Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
  • Real Presencestandard
    Memorialist / Zwinglian view; typical Baptist and Free Church position
  • TransubstantiationSTRONG
    Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Wrestles with
  • Pacifism vs. just-warweak
    Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
  • Women in pastoral / ordained officeweak
    ACNA no unified position (some dioceses ordain women, others not). GMC restricts by role. COGIC restricts bishop role but ordains women to other ministries.
In their own words

Statements

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Prayer Garden Church Leader and Mission Statement Prayer Garden Church of God in Christ Home About Us Ministries Schedule of Services Devotional Donations Our Leaders, Our Mission, Our Statement of Faith Supt. Paul D. Bates, Pastor Missionary Carolyn A. Bates, First Lady Mission Statement Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Savior to all who believe; challenge the believer to commit to a godly life style that reflects the character of Jesus Christ; enco
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Prayer Garden Church Leader and Mission Statement Prayer Garden Church of God in Christ Home About Us Ministries Schedule of Services Devotional Donations Our Leaders, Our Mission, Our Statement of Faith Supt. Paul D. Bates, Pastor Missionary Carolyn A. Bates, First Lady Mission Statement Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ as Savior to all who believe; challenge the believer to commit to a godly life style that reflects the character of Jesus Christ; encourage the committed believer to serve the local church and the community through the diverse ministries of Prayer Garden Church of God in Ch
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