The Church of God Reformation Movement was born during the holiness revival of the late Nineteenth Century. This movement saw the time then present as the Sixth Seal of the Book of Revelation. They also saw the Biblical message of the one true Church of God as it appeared in the Bible and dedicated themselves to promoting unity and holiness among Christian believers to produce that Biblical church in the reality of everyday life. As noble as this vision was and as successful as this work started to be, in the long term it began to stray from the original vision as many of its hopes failed to mature.

In the later 1930s, the stress between conservatives and liberals became so intense that many began to look for a Biblical and prophetic answer for the problem. During the 1940s and 1950s a significant number of ministers believed the answer to their concerns was found in the opening of the Seventh Seal. In this message, many found strength and what they believed to be divine direction to leave the "Movement" and stand separate as the Remnant of the true Church of God.

This section contains some of the founding literature that propelled that movement. Right or wrong, this is the why behind what happened. Please read this for the historical benefit and, perhaps, weigh some of their arguments in your own mind. Was there a real opening of the Seventh Seal? If so, what does it really mean. Is this message valid in the Twenty-First Century? Perhaps the answer is in this literature; perhaps it is not.

A Brief Overview

A short essay by Pastor D. F. Bayless providing an historic background and a  commentary on the founding issues of the Seventh Seal message.

Please read this essay before you read the literature below as it will provide the context in which the writers expressed their burdens. The positions put forth by the writers are not necessarily endorsed by the Lawton Church of God.

Worshipping Christ

W. S. Goodnight

The Kingdom and the Church

W. S. Goodnight

Are We Living in the Days of the Antichrist Spirits that Were to Come

W. S. Goodnight

The Church Divinely Organized and Divinely Governed

W. S Goodnight

The Reformation

J. F. Lawson

The Three Temples

J. F. Lawson

The Seven Churches of Asia

J. F. Lawson