Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

No. My first gig was with a mixed race congregation in South Bend, IN. It no longer exists in the form it was back then (they moved to a better part of town). What I found was that the blacks didn't have particularly strong beliefs about much. It was more a social network for them. This observation ...

I am reminded of Julian Snell. He bridged that gap. Julian was a mentor to my grandfather and I spent several months working with him on a radio show on 93.? out of Pikeville, KY. Julian was born in 1926 and logged a bit of Naval service in WW2. I don't know that he was yet a Christian at that time....

The 'institutional' church that ran opposition to my dad's NI church for about 20 years had 3 different locations in their lifespan. They first met in a store front. Then in a somewhat larger building that I think had been the office space for a boat repair business. Finally, as history unfolded, th...

FinallyFree wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 3:50 am The CofC is negative and not enriching.

This is an excellent point that is not unique to the CoC. Many churches are better at describing what they are not than affirming what they are. This is especially true of new churches which are formed from a denominational split.

Thank you for the responses. The question came to me as I examined some current articles in other religious publications debating what age appropriate children's participation in church is. It seemed to me that the usual customs became a little more flexible whenever a Gospel meeting was taking plac...

Not infant baptism; Child baptism. Let's set a parameter of past the toddler stage and when the child can speak in sentences. What was the youngest child you saw baptized? For me, it was a 7 year old (which interestingly is when many of the Lutherans will consider first communion and I believe it is...

Montgomery Gentry name dropped the CoC from time to time. I specifically remember a line in the song "My Town": Come Sunday mornin' service at the church of Christ Well, there ain't an empty seat to be found I have never witnessed that problem, even in churches that were only built to hold...

I took my brother to the theater on Christmas Eve and we watched "The Iron Claw" which is about the Von Erich wrestling family who ran shows around Dallas in the 70s and 80s. I thought it was quite good although there was one scene that was very difficult for me to watch. If you are famili...

way behind the eight ball when it comes to speaking the English language in any sort of educated manner. . . Sadly, they were also uneducated. Lot's of good points in the whole post. This one particularly resonated with me. My brother and father both mangle the English language like a car that slid...

Taking a class or two on Greek and actually having any proficiency are entirely different things. Introductory Greek is fairly comparable to a high school Spanish or French class, with the exception that you have to learn a new written alphabet. Also, some of the preacher training schools do not, in...