You Might Be “Church of God” If…
you’re confused when you go to a different church and they won’t let you take communion.
you like Peanuts because Charles Schulz was “one of ours.”
you go to summer campmeeting every year and worship in the “tabernacle.”
no one assigns your church a pastor; your church picks one and it takes at least a year to do it.
your parents/grandparents own everything ever recorded by the Gaithers.
you get a pedicure before Maundy Thursday.
a woman preaches at your church and no one bats an eye.
you can name multiple hymn writers and Barney E. Warren tops the list.
you don’t have to go to seminary to be a preacher.
you’re pretty big on free will.
you remember the Sandi Patti scandal and know people who stopped buying her albums.
when you tell people what church you attend, you tack “Anderson, IN” on the end so they’ll know you’re not Pentecostal…then you realize no one outside your denomination knows the difference…but it’s not a denomination...
You Might Be a Church of God Woman If…
the first time you learned that some churches don’t even allow women to teach Sunday school, you thought “that’s pretty effed up” but you said, “that’s not Biblical” and broke out passages from Joel and Acts.
you’re confusing or intimidating to potential suitors because you know your theology and theology matters to you.
you know that submission is mutual, so it’s his turn to make you a sandwich.
you’ve led worship, taught Sunday school, preached, been an elder or had some other role in leadership at your church and it’s nbd.
the word "complementarian" makes you cringe.
you went to seminary to get your M.Div, not your MRS.
you have a heart (but also a brain) for God!