Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Congrats on your journey thru RCIA. I did the same several years ago and have never had even an inkling to look back. I too came from a hard-core CoC (never small-case the first "c") background, took a detour thru Presbyterianism (nice folks), and finally found my way home. God bless.

My parents "converted" shortly after they married, which was sometime in the 1930's (kind of dates me!). Dad had never been involved with any church, Mom's family was respectably Methodist, although not overly committed. So they embarked on a quest to sample what was available: our tiny co...

The way it was explained to me, being in Heaven in the presence of God will be ultra-cool, because God is the very definition of "Good" and therefore only good can exist "up there." As in, your top 10 most pleasant and pleasurable experiences ever, rolled into one -- and raised t...

Please notice that the lower case "c" in "church" is no mistake . . . we were always careful to make sure to keep that first "c" lower case so that others would know that we were not just Another Christian Denomination. . . we were the One True Church™. You have just e...

Two of the elders had the gall to show up at the cOC that she had moved to four years earlier and tell her "we withdrew from you today". That was followed by them being escorted out of the building by the preacher and a couple of other guys

That is fantastic! Just deliciously kooky.

A little off-topic here, but there's something about funerals . . . I remember when my mother-in-law died several years ago. She was Catholic, and the funeral was in a small Catholic church, but most of the attendees were protestant. Father WhatsHisName was a stuffy sort, and you could just tell tha...

Catholic evangelist John Martignoni mixes it up (again) with another CoC'er in his most recent newsletter http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/newsletter/349-apologetics-for-the-masses-277 I personally don't have much stomach for this kind of debate -- got awfully burned-out on it all those years ag...

My biggest conflict is less with them and more about convincing myself that the coc is in fact not the only "true church". It took me a long time to realize, at the 'gut' level, the silliness of the coc position -- that what it teaches about itself is nonsense. What helped the most was si...

It's hard to imagine hating anybody enough to wish them an eternity in hell. Oh, I have a couple of family members . . . well, 15, 20 minutes might not be beyond the pale of reason.

The article cited by klp above is by Karl Keating, who almost single-handedly established the field of Catholic apologetics vis-a-vis protestant / non-Catholic Christian theology. He verges on sainthood in my book, but this article is rather goofy nonetheless. It has nothing to do with church doctri...