Grace Communion International's own published history, "Transformed by Christ: A Brief History of Grace Communion International," covering Herbert Armstrong's 1934 founding as the Radio Church of God, the 1968 renaming to Worldwide Church of God, the doctrinal reforms of 1988 to 1995 under Joseph Tkach Sr, the resulting membership losses, admission to the National Association of Evangelicals in 1997, and the April 2009 renaming to Grace Communion International.
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The denomination's own institutional record of its own founding and transformation, hosted on its own site. A body describing its own well-documented history openly, including an admittedly costly reversal and the membership it lost over it, is treated the same way this database already treats other denominations' own history pages (the CME Church's thecmechurch.org history sits at the same tier). Not independent of its subject, so cross-checked here against Barrett's outside scholarly account before any date was relied on alone. NotesPrimary citation for this entry, the founding and renaming dates, and the 1995 membership loss figures.
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AuthorGrace Communion International
PublisherGrace Communion International
Publication Year2018
URLhttps://www.gci.org/articles/a-short-history-of-grace-communion-international/
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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