The Divine Church of Isaac T. Jones was inspired by the nineteenth century African-American Traveler Isaac Jones. It is basically a Christian religion that uses as scripture both the Bible and The Collected Letters of Isaac T. Jones. Members accept Jesus Christ as a savior, but feel that God sent Isaac Jones to the world to "inspire the faithful, chastise the wicked and save the fallen."

The Divine Church has currently about 140,000 members–mostly in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and the American South. Although it has sermons and singing that resemble the AME Baptist church it has evolved into a multiracial, tolerant church with teachings somewhat similar to the Bahai faith. Members of the divine church are against bigotry and discrimination in any form and were active participants in the early civil rights movement. The church membership is currently divided into two groups: the "main streamers" who want to turn the church into a conventional Christian faith and a much smaller group who believe in Debt Not Paid.