Christ's Sanctified Holy Church
Christ's Sanctified Holy Church teaches that the fullness of salvation is obtained through two works of grace: (1) the New Birth and (2) experiencing the "second blessing," i.e. entire sanctification.[3] In 1887 on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, the members of Goodwill Methodist Episcopal Church held fast to the belief that they, though living in a state of forgiveness before God, could not be saved without sanctification.There was no way the Chincoteague residents of the day could have known it, but Lynch "and his followers were not unique in their beliefs and practices",[4] as Holiness revivals begin in the United States in the last half of the nineteenth century.Those who committed that act never paid for that crime as the community came to their defense, but, later, leaders of the band, Lynch, Collins, and two other men were arrested, and jailed and fined by the authorities.Some of the earliest Doctrine and Discipline documents from 1897 state, with respect to the topic of divorce and remarriage, that "No brother or sister shall leave his wife or her husband except it be for fornication and adultery".In 1895, a group of people from Christ's Sanctified Holy Church left the eastern shore of Virginia and Delaware to begin an evangelistic effort to spread the message of sanctification."Raucous cries, curses and threats were heard from the river bank", but from the Sanctified houseboats only "a wail of prayer and weeping" as Patty Watkins lost her life to a bullet.They teach that everyone (both men and women)[16] who was sanctified had the freedom to preach, testify and sing as the Holy Spirit moved on them (though leaders often stopped anyone talking over 15 minutes).During World War I, the church encouraged its members to seek jobs in the shipyards to avoid conscription, as their beliefs prohibited military service.By 1905, meetings were held in cities of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and the western states of Colorado and California.By 1905, meetings were held in cities of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and the western states of Colorado and California.In the summer of 1938 efforts begin to establish a Camp ground where the traveling Sanctified bands could meet once a year to spend a week or two together and where older members could retire.Christ's Sanctified Holy Church falls under the category of 'Holiness Pacifists' as the denomination teaches that its members should have "no part" in war, but rather "endorse the peace treaty, and believe that all controversies and difficulties between nations should be settled by counsel and arbitration.
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