The Church of God is a Christian fellowship in the Wesleyan/Holiness tradition. The Church of God sprang up in the late 1800s among a loose grouping of people who believed in holiness of life for Christians. These people saw a lack of commitment to holiness among the organized churches of the day. In fact, they saw the tangled denominational system of churches an obstacle and a detriment to unity among God's true people. Anything that divided God's people was, to them, sinful and corrupt. Reasoning that the church was "one" at the start and that only the interference of humankind divided the church, they had a vision and a conviction that God would once again unite true believers into one.

  

The group formed loosely under the leadership of Daniel Sidney Warner. D.S. Warner's teachings and concerns raised the ire of the leaders of his denomination. When the teachings on holiness of life and anti-denominational concerns could no longer be tolerated by his denomination, there was a rift. D.S. Warner and a group of like-minded people set out on their own in 1880 and declared themselves to be "forever free from denominations and all things that separate God's people". This was the beginning of the movement known as the Reformation Movement of the Church of God.

  

The Church of God holds a high view of the inspiration of divine scripture, an emphasis on Holiness of life with the works of the Holy Spirit supplying the power, and the unity of God's people through a common new-birth and spiritual heritage.