Expert: Elder Greg Madden - 3/17/2008

Question
1.What makes your denomination different to other denominations?
2. What are the normal features of your church service?
-Does it have a formal order of service? (or liturgy?)
- What type of music is involved in the services?
- Is special clothing required to be worn?
3. How are individual churches in the denomination governed?
- Is each church responsible for making its own decisions?
- Is there a central organization that makes decisions for each church?
- Can each church manage its own finance?
- Who appoints the pastors/leaders/priest  in the church?
- Does the denomination have a regular gathering of leaders from all the churches, to elect the denominational leaders?


Answer
Kelly,

Thank you for your plethora of question. Though I do want to make it clear that though I am not a member of the Assemblies of God, I am very familiar with them. However, as a volunteer on this site, we are given the option of not answering questions we may feel are of the  "homework" type. I sense from what you have asked this is the case. If I am wrong, I apologize. But you must understand that if it is, then I would be doing you a great disservice in simply giving you the answers instead of you researching them for yourself.

So instead of answering your question, I suggest you look up the answers for yourself, and that from the source itself. Here is a link to the Assemblies of God web site...

http://ag.org/top/

Hope this helps.

Elder Greg Madden
http://www.forministry.com/USOKPENTEMMM1