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Ordination Exam
What is the date associated with the Northern Kingdom? - Answer-915 B.C. - 722 B.C. What is the date associated with the Southern Kingdom? - Answer-915 B.C. - 587 B.C. The Church Of God In Christ was founded by? - Answer-Bishop C.H. Mason A creed is similar to the COGIC Statement of Faith because both seek to present? - Answer-Basics elements of doctrine that express the tenets of our faith John Wesley of Methodism taught that there were two works of grace: Conversion and Sanctification; the Church of God In Christ teaches that there is a third work of grace, what is it? - Answer-Baptism in the Holy Ghost When the Church of God In Christ speaks of the Trinity, the Godhead, we speak of? - Answer-One God eternally existent in three persons Many of the early creeds of the Christian Church were developed during large meetings of theologians, pastors, laypersons and sometimes by political leaders like the Roman Emperor. These gatherings of church officials were known as? - Answer- Ecumenical Councils During these great gatherings, the groups whose beliefs were accepted by the mass majority of participants, and could be best defended as "sound doctrine" were eventually called the ____________ believers? - Answer-Orthodox
The groups that lost the debates during the gatherings, whose views were rejected, were called? - Answer-Heretics One of the first creeds in the history of the Christian Church, extending back to the New Testament era, was known as the? - Answer-Apostle's creed In this creed, the church answered the following questions: Do we believe in the oneness of God? Do we believe that Jesus is equal to or subordinate to God? In what sense is Jesus the "Son of God?" - Answer-Nicene creed The Church of God in Christ believes that the formula for water baptism is in the name of the __________ , __________ and __________? - Answer-Father Son Holy Spirit The first affirmation of the COGIC Statement of Faith is: "We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible written Word of God." Identify one scripture that supports this belief? - Answer-2 Timothy 3:16- In the early years of COGIC, a preaching style developed among us that is distinctive to our culture, in which preachers would use members of the congregation to read selected passages of scripture as he interpreted the passages, using line-by-line, word-for-word exegesis. This is known as _______________ preaching? - Answer-Read-on The COGIC belief in the "infallibility of the Bible" means that we believe that the Bible as it is currently comprised is an absolutely sufficient guide and teaches all that God requires for human beings to live _______________ lives, and for the church to base its _____________ and ______________? - Answer-Saved Doctrines Practices
How do the Gifts of the Spirit relate to the Fruit of the Spirit? How are the two related to being filled with the Spirit? - Answer-They both come from and are empowered by the Holy Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit, one should display the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit not just solely speak in tongues What is the relationship between the COGIC Statement of Faith, The Articles of Religion, and the Bible Doctrines that COGIC affirms? - Answer-The COGIC Statement of Faith is a summary and extension of the doctrinal truths of both the Articles of Religion and the Bible Doctrines What is a canon? - Answer-Official books or writings; rules or standard of faith What books appear in the Books of Law? - Answer-Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Which books appear in the Books of Prophecy? - Answer-Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi True or False: Daniel is a Minor Prophet? - Answer-False True or False: Moses is the author of 2 Samuel? - Answer-False True or False: Jeremiah wrote some of Psalms? - Answer-False
True or False: Hosea prophesied during the 5th century B.C.? - Answer-False True or False: Isaiah prophesied during the time of Jeroboam II? - Answer-True What is Primeval History? - Answer-The origin. The beginning. Identify the Synoptic Gospels? - Answer-Matthew Mark Luke Why are they called the synoptic gospels? - Answer-They all see with one eye. Similar accounts of Christ. What does the term Gospel mean? - Answer-Good news What are the prison epistles? - Answer-Ephesians Philippians Colossians Philemon Why are they called prison epistles? - Answer-Paul wrote while imprisoned What are the Pastoral Epistles? - Answer-1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus
Healed lame man at pool of Bethesda Fed the five thousand Healed man born blind Walked on water Raised Lazarus What is the synoptic problem? - Answer-The question of how the three gospels are similar but different What is an explanation for solving the synoptic problem? - Answer-Understanding how Jesus was being represented (ie. king, savior, servant, etc.) The Church of God in Christ identifies its founding dates as? - Answer-1895 and 1897 The first congregation organized as part of the new movement called the Church of God in Christ was located in? - Answer-Lexington, Mississippi The Church of God in Christ began during the 1890s under the leadership of two pivotal pioneers: - Answer-Charles Price Jones and Charles Harrison Mason The majority of the early leaders of the Church of God in Christ belonged to the following denomination: - Answer-Baptist When Bishop Mason withdrew from Arkansas Baptist College, he? - Answer-Enrolled in the Ministers Institute at the college The major leader of the Azusa Street Revival and early Pentecostalism was? - Answer-William Joseph Seymour
A faction led by C.H. Mason within the Church of God in Christ embraced Pentecostalism in? - Answer- During the first decade of the Church of God in Christ as a Pentecostal body, there were? - Answer-Black and white clergy The first supervisor of Women's Work was? - Answer-Lizzie Woods-Robinson The first major COGIC gospel singers to make records were? - Answer-Arizona Dranes, F.W. McGee, and Charles Beck The first COGIC school was founded by? - Answer-Pinkie Duncan The first COGIC Constitution was ratified during Bishop Mason's lifetime. What was the year? - Answer- Besides the school in Lexington (Mississippi), COGIC sponsored schools in three other towns/cities during the 1920s. Name two of the other places? - Answer- Memphis TN and Hearne, TX The first foreign country in which COGIC established congregations was? - Answer- Jamaica The first country in Africa that COGIC missionaries served was? - Answer-Liberia The Women's Department (first called the Office of Women's Work) was established in what year? - Answer-
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