Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

I guess their logic is that the church building was constructed and maintained from the church treasury..."the Lord's money". So there should be no social activities occuring within the building. Only activities "authorized" in the bible. And yet, marriage is supported in the bib...

Well, if there's "nothing holy about the building", I wonder why is it such an issue with some people?

Shane R wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:40 am I was dis-fellowshipped back in the day by a church in South Carolina. Didn't hurt my feelings. I wish I had kept the letter though. King St. CoC, Beaufort, SC.

You could have framed it, if you have that type of sense of humor.

Oh, my goodness that IS creepy!! Sounds very cultish.

zeek's right. Seriously, if the CoC were even REMOTELY logical about things, they'd just drown people DURING baptism, so they would go straight to heaven, instead of chancing 'falling away' as soon as they got up. I mean, that is certainly the SAFEST thing! I've actually heard that discussion. Just...

Always an interesting topic, longdistancerunner. I have wondered what the "marking" was. Sending out letters, a scarlet letter around the neck...it doesn't really say. But I remember those words in a discussion about whether they would "mark and withdraw" from someone...a really ...

"Out of the...bubble"...I surely do understand that, ACU. You have to get out of that bubble, and all the pressure that comes with it, to determine what you actually believe to be true and what it means to live a genuine life.

Wasn't Halloween also considered devil worship by many, I don't remember at the CoC many people having object ions, but I worked with an evangelical who was solidly opposed to it. The cofc I knew growing up did not object to Halloween. It was one of my favorite holidays growing up (late 50s, early ...

It is just not a good church, but children raised in it are taught a lot of Bible stories and are educated with Biblical knowledge. That is something relatively positive, I guess. I spent a year as a student at Harvard Divinity School in the 1960s. Every year they gave entering students a test on b...