Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

longdistancerunner wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:49 am I was on a cruise in Antarctica and met some people who had gone to church with Billy Sol Estes. They said he took money out of the collection plate.

I would love to go on a cruise in Antarctica. Wow. I'm jealous.

Infants have no knowledge or awareness they are being baptized, so it doesn't force them into anything. It is just symbolic and sprinkles some water on their heads. They don't know or care what is going on. Confirmation takes place at different ages in different religions. With Presbyterian it is ar...

Infant baptism is "confirmed" when the child reaches a certain age, usually 15 or 16. So they really are given a choice as a later age.

I have noticed this also.
A lot of smaller churches are closing down.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187460517/megachurches-growing-liquid-church

https://christianchronicle.org/most-church-of-christ-members-in-the-u-s-reside-in-a-red-state/ This is an older article but it shows a map of where C of C are most prevalent in the USA. I must say I have not seen any C of C church in the area I live in now (southeastern Idaho). Interesting. Not a si...

The CoC I grew up in had a preacher who actually preached women could not wear pants to worship. The logic was somewhat tortured. And he wasn't a real conservative type overall. I remember he would also say in his sermons he would rather one of his daughters marrying a black person who was a Christ...

One of the hired preachers at the CoC where I grew up in Texas (we usually got a new one every few years) started preaching that they should disfellowship all the people who weren’t showing up for Wednesday night services. It split the church; one of the elders agreed with him and moved to a city 5...

DashRipRock wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 1:41 pm I watch re-runs of Gunsmoke . Plus I like sci-fi movies and gangster movies too .

I loved Gun Smoke when I was a kid, and the man who played the sheriff Matt Dillon, I had such a big crush on him.

Same here, I like documentaries.

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 sequen...