From its early roots in the 1930s, the Worldwide Church of God, now known as Grace Communion International, was theologically and relationally at odds with orthodox Christianity. The church denied the doctrine of the Trinity, viewing the Father and the Son as one “God family” and the Holy Spirit as God’s power and essence.
After Armstrong’s death in 1986, the Holy Spirit began to draw the WCG into the orthodox faith of historic Christianity. By the early 1990s the church had accepted the doctrine of the Trinity and began to discover the joy and freedom of the true gospel of grace.
As the transformation progressed, and the church seriously engaged the work of such theologians as Thomas Torrance, James Torrance, Karl Barth, Ray Anderson, Elmer Colyer, Colin Gunton, and others, the more it came to see the profound implications of the Incarnation of the Son for humanity’s union and communion with God and one another.