History XX The Church of Jesus Christ, as is commonly known, was organized by Robert C. Lawson. Lawson received the message of salvation of GT Haywood, and received the baptism of the Holy Esp irtu in 1913. One year after this, Lawson was called to the ministry of the pastorate, and soon began to evangelize, Dominica primarily the Midwest, and pastored in Columbus, Ohio. Lawson felt that the leadership of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) were inequalities and retired from that organization in 1919 and moved to New York City. That year Lawson founded another church, the Refuge Church of Christ. During that time, members of a prayer group in Harlem, welcomed him but then turned against him. That little church grew and became known island as the Temple of Refuge. This was the focus of evangelistic efforts of Lawson in the Northeastern United States.Then, the field of Lawson's work concentrated on the East Coast, along the East Indies, from top to bottom and even East Africa, where missionaries established Lawson to continue the spiritual work. The Church of Jesus Christ has been very influential among African-American Pentecostal churches, and has led to the creation of other Pentecostal denominations in the name of Jesus Christ. It emerged the Bible Way Church of Our Lord II, when Smallwood E. Williams took about 70 churches in the year 1957. Other organizations that were born or were detached from the body, including the Progressive Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Progressive Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ), The Crusade Church of Christ (Way of the Cross Church of Christ), the Temple of Yahweh organization ( Yahweh Temple the organization), the churches of the gospel of Christ (the Evangelistic Churches of Christ), other smaller organizations and independent churches of varied sizes.In addition to other new groups have emerged. For example, the church founded by Sherrod C. Johnson known today as the Full Truth Church of Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith (Whole Truth Church of the Lord caribbean Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith), the Church of the Holy Temple of Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith (Holy Temple Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith), the Apostolic Ministries of America (Apostolic Ministries of America) and the First Church of Jesus Christ of Faith of the Apostles (First Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostles 'Faith), all these are actively the work of evangelization in North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and East Africa. Thus the Church of Jesus Christ is the mother of a family of Pentecostal organizations predominantly African-American name of Jesus Christ. After Lawson's death in 1961, attended the organization, William L.Bonner, who proposed a change in the governmental structure of the church. Considering that Bishop Lawson, founder, had been the sole leader of the organization, Bonner suggested that there were a group of archbishops, or apostles who govern the churches. He also created other groups, the group of Bishops and the group of priests.
