Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Wow! This has been a fun but creepy read. Spies, spies, everywhere!

Ivy wrote:

Cootie Brown wrote:The youth minister, in front of me, told the widow and granddaughter that he’d pray for Jesus to comfort them knowing their loved one was in Hell for taking his life.

I would daresay that saying that to a grieving family qualifies as evil.

I definitely agree!

Wow, that's quite a story! Thanks for sharing. Welcome aboard.

Good to have you on board! I hope that everything works out for you.

I remember a church in Oklahoma being taken to court by a former member. Someone familiar with the case told me they had posted a notice of withdrawal from her in a public place (like a grocery store bulletin board or some such). Ah! It's the Collinsville, OK, Church of Christ. This 1984 article in...

One of the main doctrines that I did not agree with is that religious non-cofc people are "not christians", "not saved", etc; only cofc people were christians. The arrogance of it was appalling to me. This. My husband once asked his mom, "Do you really think that anyone bap...

Welcome! Good luck with your journey.

Struggler wrote:Here's another one:

I was upbraided more than once for using the word "improvise." I was told not to use such a "high-class" word, that we just "make do."

Amazing!

I was often reminded that I didn't have children. Some C of C parent would tell me I had more free time than they did because "you don't have children." So? I told one of them we should trade schedules for a week, and see who has the most free time. He never took me up on that. When a you...

We got judged for having our own song books and folding chairs at home, instead of borrowing from the building. We had many copies of a number of various books...it was kind of cool to break out an old Sacred Selections and remember childhood. Our maybe go to a split leaf psalter to change things u...