Jude 2

Just curious.

It stands for all the diferent Church of Gods..

Church of God
Church of God of Prophecy
The Church of God
Church of god in Christ

etc etc etc.

many many differenct flavors

After many fracturings of the Church 'O Gawds there remains a cumbersome collection of names for the various sects. All with various additions to the Church of God brand. Hence the need for name acronym abbreviation. The Church of God of Prophecy is often shortened to CoGoP or CGP the elder church is often abbreviated COG. There's also the Zion Assembly Church of God ZACOG...and the alphabet soup goes on ad infinitum.

And lo, it came to pass that an algebraic x appeared. It broadens the alphabet soup to include the various fill in the letters possibilities. The COG is still there, you just get to pick the accompanying sectarian designation that applies to the equation at hand. Hope that helps.

Thank you both. That clears it up. What are most of the people on this board - which flavor?

Who new wrote:... the elder church is often abbreviated COG.

Good Lord, I thought that "brush-off" was dead and buried years ago.

soulsearcher wrote:

Who new wrote:... the elder church is often abbreviated COG.

Good Lord, I thought that "brush-off" was dead and buried years ago.

I got kicked out of the church of god of prophecy YEARS AGO. Now I'm Episcopalian. Wow, that was a brush off. Who knew.

irthnvesl wrote:Thank you both. That clears it up. What are most of the people on this board - which flavor?

Unflavored for me.

There's all varieties on here. I'm COG.
But I think the vast majority on here are present or former COGOP.

irthnvesl wrote:What are most of the people on this board - which flavor?

Which flavor? Jesus, of course!

I think most here are less impressed with the sign over the door than what's in the church, but there are alot of CoGoP (Church of God of Prophecy) people here, and many who were formerly connected with this organization.

The board is fairly well known in the org. and we tend to have many people get together at the bi-annual International Assemblies the church has.

Personally I grew up Methodist, got saved, started going to a Baptist Church where I was baptised, started attending a COG, received the baptism of the HG, started preaching, started the process of licensing as a minister, then God opened up an opportunity in the CoGoP for me to pastor, and told me to go, so I've been here (in the CoGoP) ever since.

Raised as COGOP,but changed to COG in 1999,not much difference in the two that I can see.