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Stanton First Church of God

📍980 East College Avenue, Stanton, KY ✝church_of_god
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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.

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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

statement_of_faith
<!DOCTYPE html> What We Believe | stantonfcog top of page What We Believe Home VBS Salvation About Us History of the Church Church By Laws What We Believe Meet The Staff Our Facilities Service Videos Prayer Contact Us More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the accepted Canon of the Scriptures as originally given and believe that they are infallibly and uniquely authoritative and free from error of any sort in all matters with which they deal, scientific and historical as well as moral and theological (II Timothy 3:16; I Corinthians
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<!DOCTYPE html> History of the Church | stantonfcog top of page Home VBS Salvation About Us History of the Church Church By Laws What We Believe Meet The Staff Our Facilities Service Videos Prayer Contact Us More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. History Of Stanton First Church of God Stanton First Church of God was established in 1972 when a group of people from Powell County met at the Camargo First Church of God with the RHE Board Members from Anderson Indiana. After the meeting on August 19th, 1972 they contacted Jerry Owens from Winchester to help get the Church started. The
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--> History of the Church | stantonfcog top of page Home VBS Salvation About Us History of the Church Church By Laws What We Believe Meet The Staff Our Facilities Service Videos Prayer Contact Us More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. History Of Stanton First Church of God Stanton First Church of God was established in 1972 when a group of people from Powell County met at the Camargo First Church of God with the RHE Board Members from Anderson Indiana. After the meeting on August 19th, 1972 they contacted Jerry Owens from Winchester to help get the Church started. The first services
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--> What We Believe | stantonfcog top of page What We Believe Home VBS Salvation About Us History of the Church Church By Laws What We Believe Meet The Staff Our Facilities Service Videos Prayer Contact Us More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the accepted Canon of the Scriptures as originally given and believe that they are infallibly and uniquely authoritative and free from error of any sort in all matters with which they deal, scientific and historical as well as moral and theological (II Timothy 3:16; I Corinthians 2:13). We belie
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