Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Name== The precise legal name of this body is "'''Church of God'''". After a protracted court case involving donations intended for the use of its orphanages being received by other groups using the same name, the [[Supreme Court of Tennessee]] determined that it alone was entitled to use the simple name Church of God in 1953.<ref>Stephen C. Finley, Torin Alexander, ''African American Religious Cultures'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2009, p. 151</ref> The group however uses '''Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)''' in order to distinguish it from other bodies that use "Church of God" in their titles. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page