The Problem
The Church of God, a spiritual family bound together by a shared commitment to the Sabbath, Holy Days, loving God and neighbor, and other important Biblical truths. Yet despite this common foundation, we are often separated by distance, limited awareness of one another, and longstanding divisions. As a result, opportunities for fellowship, service, and cooperation are frequently missed, and many needs are addressed in isolation rather than with the support of the broader Church community.
Our Mission
To support the Church of God by helping brethren and organizations connect, serve, and collaborate — without compromising Biblical truth or organizational autonomy.
Our Vision
A Church of God community that sees itself and functions as a spiritual family. We envision a Church where every believer recognizes fellow members of the Body of Christ as family—building relationships marked by love, truth, and a shared hope in God’s coming Kingdom.
Our Approach
CGN works alongside brethren, leaders, and organizations across generations in a spirit that is loving, noncompetitive, and rooted in God’s way of life. Everything we do is guided by two core principles: voluntary participation and neutrality. We seek to build bridges, not pressure people; participation never requires compromising sincerely held beliefs or convictions. As a neutral nonprofit, we are not a church or membership organization, do not solicit tithes, and exist to complement—not compete with—the important work already being done throughout the Church of God community.
Our approach is inspired by Christ’s prayer that His followers would be one (John 17), Paul’s exhortation to bear one another’s burdens and maintain the unity of the Spirit (Galatians 6; Ephesians 4), and the Biblical call to love and serve one another. We believe the Church is strongest when brethren and organizations know one another, support one another, and work together in service to God and His people. By creating opportunities for connection, service, and collaboration, we seek to help the Church of God function more fully as the spiritual family God intended it to be.
Who We Serve
God’s Church is made up of those who have God’s Spirit and are led by His Spirit (Romans 8:14). CGN does not seek to determine who specifically is “in” or “out” of the Church of God—only God has that authority. With this in mind, it is important to clarify the population we serve.
CGN recognizes that doctrinal differences exist among Church of God organizations and does not ask anyone to compromise on matters of faith. Yet we believe these differences need not prevent love, fellowship, and cooperation, provided there is agreement on the same core, distinctive understandings of God’s Word. If we discern, to the best of our ability, that others are part of the Body of Christ, Scripture calls us to be in relationship with them. Below are 11 central beliefs of the Church of God as revealed in Scripture, listed in no particular order of importance:
Central Beliefs/Doctrines
Christ’s death reconciled us to God (He was placed in the tomb in the late afternoon just before sundown on Wednesday and was in the tomb until Saturday at sunset – totaling 3 days and 3 nights), and His resurrection saved us from the penalty of the second death (once one accepts Christ as their personal savior).
Total submersion, water baptism, and the laying on of hands is required to receive the Holy Spirit. A converted person is begotten at baptism and not “born again” until the resurrection. God’s Church does not practice infant baptism.
Repentance is a necessity in the life of a Christian – both at (and leading up to) baptism and ongoing as one sins – in order to develop God’s holy, righteous character.
The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God (the Old and New Testaments).
God’s 10 Commandments, including the 7th day (Saturday) Sabbath, are in effect.
The Passover and God’s Holy Days outline God’s plan of salvation and are required observances:
- Days of Unleavened Bread (first and last days are Holy Days)
- Pentecost
- Feast of Trumpets
- Day of Atonement
- Feast of Tabernacles
- The Eighth Day
The holidays associated with modern Christianity are influenced by pagan traditions and are not observed by the Church of God. This includes Easter, Christmas, and other similar religious observances whose origins do not derive from Biblical instruction. God specifically prohibits worshiping Him in ways other than those outlined in scripture.
While many Church of God organizations differ to some degree with regard to prophetic interpretation or speculative matters that aren’t clearly defined in scripture, some have a record of making specific, failed “prophecies” that they claim are directly from God (often in the form of setting dates/predictions and taking prophetic titles unto themselves). Any organization with an unrepentant record of these false prophecies will not be considered part of the community that the Church of God Network serves. Scripture is clear when it comes to false prophets (see: Deuteronomy 18:20-22, Jeremiah 5:30-31, Matthew 7:15-20)
Today, God is only calling the “first-fruits,” and none can come to Jesus Christ and be genuinely converted unless the Father draws that individual. Eventually, every human being who has ever lived will have their chance to be called by God. In addition, heaven is not the reward of the saved, and there is no eternal burning Hell. There is no immortal soul. Upon death, one simply awaits the resurrection; there is no consciousness in the grave.
The ultimate purpose for mankind is to become part of the God family. God is reproducing Himself through mankind. The God family currently consists of God the Father and Jesus Christ. This conviction prohibits both belief in the trinity and that Jesus Christ was a created being.
Jesus Christ shall return as King of Kings, and He will intervene to save mankind from self-destruction. Mankind cannot solve its own problems. God’s Government, established by Christ at his coming, shall rule directly over the nations to bring about lasting world peace.