Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

The only correct thing I was taught in the COC is that I should think for myself, and not believe things just because some preacher said them. I don’t think the COCers really meant it. Once I followed that instruction, I left their church in the dust.

I was 10, nearly 11, when baptized in our NICOC. I was definitely old enough to have the fear of hell.

Jeremiah, I watched this when you posted it on Facebook. I know it takes tremendous strength and courage to make such a change in a family such as yours. I hope your new church home is a place of rest and rejuvenation on your spiritual journey. For me, the journey is ongoing. My sympathy on the rece...

As I remember (and husband agrees), in our coCs, we were taught a fairly conventional, if confusing, Christian view of the Trinity. DH even remembers a sermon on the Trinity given by our preacher (the guy who married us.) However, we both left the coC religion about 40 years ago. Yesterday I was tal...

It is my impression that Florida College is the most conservative of all. It is affiliated with NICOC churches, which means it has to be conservative to keep drawing students. Anyone have recent experience with Florida College?

My NICOC mother (rest her soul) thought it was unscriptural to have weddings in the church building no matter what music was used. She would not even attend such events. Therefore, my 50-year-old wedding pictures do not show my old COC.

At my last COC, the preacher (and probably others) told a couple they needed to separate after it was discovered that they had previous unscriptural divorces. I don’t know if the divorces were before or after their baptisms, but anyway I don’t think that NICOC gave people a pass based on the sequenc...

B.H. wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:51 pm You in the NICoC were a bunch of pinko liberals. If you were the real (tm) Church of Christ you would never have divided your assembly into Bible classes to begin with.

If the church where I was raised was “liberal,” I don’t know what a “conservative” church could be.

I remember at least one preacher in the church I attended as a child used to tell stories about people dying in hospitals wanting to be baptized. Often they had a bathtub big enough for this and sometimes even had to hold their hands over the tracheostomy tube/tracheostomy to perform the immersion....

In every NICOC I attended, women were allowed to comment in Bible class. This was true in both teen and adult classes.