Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

In Agricola's words "born and bred, but not royalty." I was not from a multi-generational line. My family was first generation. My immediate family (of origin) was (and still is) all coc, but none of the extended family was. I can only imagine how immense the pressure to stay would be when...

How I ended up in the coc is kind of odd I guess. The building was just three buildings away from my street as a child. I could see the back lot of the building from my front yard. I was 6 going on 7 at the time, and playing alone outside when I noticed the cars parking and wandered through two bac...

After extensive study on this topic, I concluded that the position that 'any alcohol is a sin' is simply indefensible. Let me guess, these "preservation methods" involved concentrating the grape juice for storage? Can I let you in on a (not much of a) secret? The higher the sugar content o...

Hello and welcome. I remember a number of years ago when I began taking note of the fact that many churches of Christ were more interested in promoting doctrine - doctrine they denied having - more than they were promoting Christ. This was early on a long journey that slowly led me away from the con...

Hello, and welcome, and glad you joined. I consider myself to be an ex-christian and unbeliever. You have already seen how difficult it is to break free from the coC, and I think breaking free from Christianity is much harder. I still prefer not to tell my family members that I am an unbeliever, as ...

ha, that reminds me...I did the monitor thing on the head elders family one time. They created this pot luck at a park that was essentially a spiritual service but with food. It was the "first annual be thankful to God for what he has done" or some long title like that. And it was pushed ...

Hello and welcome. Fellow non-believing-but-once-very-devout member here.

Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company. Mark Twain

BH, what about the coc did you find to be less appealing than Islam?

What does the coc do better?

Are Allah and Jehovah the same God, in your view?

Even as a believer I found this to be a rather strange practice. But I am familiar with it in the Methodist church, and even among some of the liberal coc's now. Well, maybe not the cake, but at least singing Happy Birthday to Jesus, which to me is on-par in terms of overall strangeness. NOT that I ...