Later in 1897, while in Little Rock, Arkansas, C. Mason sought a name to distinguish his Holiness group from others. Since so many new holiness groups and fellowships were forming that used the name "Church of God," C. They rejected denominational names such as Baptist, Methodist, or Episcopal.
At its first convocation held in 1897, the group identified simply as the "Church of God." Many Holiness Christian groups and fellowships forming at the time wanted biblical names for their local churches and fellowships, such as "Church of God, Church of Christ, or Church of the Living God". Paul Church in Lexington, Mississippi, as the first church of the new movement. The leadership of the Mississippi State Convention of the National Baptist Convention intervened and expelled Jones, Mason, and others who embraced the Wesleyan teaching of Entire Sanctification.
Some of these African-American Baptist pastors in local Southern areas such as Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas considered Jones and Mason to be controversial. Protestant doctrinal debates about Calvinism and Wesleyan Perfectionism affected how even local African-American Baptist pastors responded to new Christian movements at the time. Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, attended by Mason and others from several states. In June 1896, Jones held a Holiness convention at Mt. He testified to receiving Entire Sanctification after reading her autobiography in 1893. Her life story led many African-Americans into the Holiness movement, including Mason. Mason was influenced by the testimony of the African-American Methodist evangelist Amanda Berry Smith, one of the most widely respected African-American holiness evangelists of the nineteenth century. Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippi who began teaching and preaching a Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection or Entire Sanctification as a second work of grace to their Baptist congregations. The Church of God in Christ was formed in 1897 by a group of disfellowshipped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones (1865–1949) and Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961).
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