Mason's visit to the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1907 changed the counsel of the church. He, along by owning J. The. Jeter & D. J. Young, were appointive within 1906 as a committee to investigate the reports of the revival. Upon his link to to Tennessee, Mason began to teach the Pentecostalist case he experienced detected inside California. Jones & Jeter rejected a Pentecostal manifestations & a church split between the two & Mason's followers. Mason known as a conference inside Memphis, & reorganized the Church of God inside Christ as a Pentecostal person. Two divisions went under a equivalent title until astir 1915.

A todays Presiding Bishop (2004) is Dr. Gilbert Earl Patterson, who is the innovation pastor of the Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ. More bishops include Charles E. Blake, the Pastor of The West Angeles Cathedral, and J. N. Haynes, the Pastor of The Gospel Temple Church of God in Christ. Globe headquarters come located in Memphis, Tennessee. By occasionally estimates, the church has a worldwide membership of 8,000,000 members.

Related bodies include a Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. (those who rejected the Pentecostal movement and followed the leadership of C. P. Jones), a Church of God in Christ, Congregational (a class action of churches that withdrew inside 1932 under a leadership of Bishop J. Bowe, world health organization taught a church should own congregational like than episcopal government), & a Church of God in Christ, International (the class action led by Bishop Illie Jefferson that rejected the reorganization of the church & formed a newly person inside Kansas City, Missouri around 1969).