Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

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...

My experience was that opinions of Graham broke down along educational lines. The better educated (indoctrinated) CoC people tended to loathe him and write him off as a false teacher. The simpler folk tended to secretly like him a bit and maybe even listen to his radio broadcasts or whatever. These ...

Because of their general refusal to do academic theology and use theological vocabulary, it is sometimes difficult to judge what is being taught. Also, the lack of accountability beyond the local area tends to allow guys to preach for years with odd views of this doctrine. I've heard or read virtual...

When I was a CoC preacher the rule of thumb was: don't preach on the Revelation until you're 40. That's stupid, particularly since most of those guys don't learn anything after the age of 23. People were generally averse to studying the book and the apocalyptic portions of the prophets. However, the...