We are glad that you’ve taken the time to check us out. While we hope this website is helpful to you, we realize the best it can do is just give you a glimpse of our fellowship at Life Tabernacle. You’ll need to come and visit us to really see who we are and what’s important to us.
When you visit, please look around our newly renovated area and talk with people. Chances are, you’ll see the familiar faces of Friends, neighbors, and coworkers-all as different and unique as the reasons that brought them here.
Look even closer and you’ll see a family of faith who are committed to knowing Jesus and making Him known to others. You’ll see people who have experienced God’s grace and have a passion to help others discover this free gift.
We Believe:
It was 1886, in a crude meeting house on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, where the Church of God traces its roots. There, a
group of eight sincere Christians had a deep desire for a closer relationship and life with Christ. Realizing the futility of reforming their own churches, they established a new church whose
objective would be to restore sound scriptural doctrines of the Bible, encourage deeper consecration and promote evangelism and Christian service. Twenty-one years after the formation of the
Christian Union that evening at the Barney Creek Meeting House, the growing movement would establish themselves permanently as the Church of God.
From this seemingly insignificant origin has grown one of the most influential worldwide Pentecostal denominations. For over 125 years the Church of God has been a distinctive movement focused upon
communicating the gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit. Presently, the Church of God has a world-wide membership of over 7 million with a presence in nearly 180 countries. Leaders of the Church of
God are recognized as some of the most respected Pentecostal leaders of today.
The call of the Church of God today beckons back to those early days at Barney Creek. Church of God congregations around the globe are experiencing the fire of the Holy Spirit today more than ever.
Reports of revivals where hundreds are saved and filled with the Holy Spirit are frequent and on-going. The call of the Church of God is for world evangelization. It is a call to discipleship and
prayer. It is a call of commitment. It is a call for the Church of God to be a channel for Pentecostal revival well into the new millennium.
For further information on the history of the Church God, recommended reading is the book Like A Mighty Army, by Dr. Charles W. Conn, available through Pathway Press. Visit their web site
at www.pathwaypress.org or visit theDixon Pentecostal Research
Center.