Led by John Ritenbaugh, the Church of the Great God (CGG) is one of the churches to form in the wake of the Worldwide Church of God's major doctrinal revisions of the 1980s and 1990s. The Worldwide Church of God (WCG formerly the Radio Church of God, is a Christian church currently based in Glendora California, United States. The CGG, headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, 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 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. Fort Mill is a town in Lancaster and York counties in the US state of South Carolina, and a Suburb of the city of Charlotte Herbert W Armstrong ( 31 July 1892 - 16 January 1986) was the founder of the Worldwide Church of God and an early pioneer of

Contents 1 Formation 2 Membership 3 See also 4 External links

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 Netherlands, 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, and over 30,000 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.

See also

• Christian Sabbatarianism

External links

• Church of the Great God Official Website
• Online Bible and Biblical Resources run by Church of the Gread God
• Sabbatarian Doctrine written by the CGG ministry
• The True Gospel, Doctrinal literature written by the CGG ministry

In Christianity, the Sabbath is generally a weekly religious Day of rest as ordained by one of the Ten Commandments (the third by Roman Catholic

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