Formed in 1925 within Kansas City, Missouri, the MSCC is divided into 7 dioceses led by diocesan prelates.
In 1926, the Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of Christ began ordaining women ministers.
[4]: 143 Following the death of Bishop Taylor, a succession crisis occurred, and in 1942 the MSCC merged with the Divine Spiritual Churches of the Southwest, based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
[5] Under Bishop Taylor's administration, Cobbs founded the First Church of Deliverance in May 1929.
[4]: 144 The MSCC also teaches the foursquare gospel and some of its churches use Catholic iconography and statues, though ritual items and belief systems vary through each congregation; once, the denomination officially practiced seances, however the MSCC "has attempted to disassociate itself from certain aspects of the larger Spiritual movement (.e.g., seances) and particularly Voodoo.