Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Been awhile since I have been on here. Let me see if I can find a link that works.

I have never been married, so I got lucky and never got the pressure to convert a spouse.

Ha! Missionary dating (dating unsaved people) always felt phony to me. I am 41, never married, not a virgin, but my only regret about it is that I did it with the wrong man, not that I had sex.

We met at 7:00 pm on Wednesdays for a number of years, then changed it to 7:30 pm so people could get there on time (since people would be walking in 15 minutes late when it was at 7:00 pm.) It would always be called Bible study on Wednesday, but worship service on Sundays. Sunday night services var...

Ugh! Typical sermon on communion... only catch is that the preacher isn't born and bred coc, unlike his wife and father-in-law (both dyed in the wool born and bred coc.) I know his wife and in-laws from the coc I attended in Bethlehem, PA. And he uses the term forced conclusion instead of necessary ...

Blech! I may be average, but I sure don't want to live my life like this "average Joe."

Glad to be back on board!

Thanks! Glad to be back

Sounds like this group has been taking as much heat as Oak Hills church where Max Lucado serves. He's so mainstream now that no one in the coc reads any of his books, but if you walk into any other church in the US (from Methodist to Baptist to Lutheran to even my own United Church of Christ congreg...

Once a month one of the ladies in the congregation would fill the grape juice cups and put the crackers in the plate before services on Sunday morning (it was one of the only things the women could do). One first Sunday morning of the month, my mom forgot that it was her month to fill the cups and ...