Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

For those of you were raised in the COC, do you ever look back at some of the things you thought or believed when you were a kid and wonder how you could have ever been that way? I think back to how I was in the COC as a kid and I am convinced that I was brainwashed from a very young age, and am inc...

I'm not able to listen now, but let me guess. "Such and such denomination only partakes of the Lord's Supper once a month or once a year. That's not what we were AUTHORIZED to do, so they're WRONG!" Probably some variation of, "Such and such denominations use wine. Drinking of any kin...

When I was a kid I loved playing tag with all the other kids out in the front yard after services. The best nights of the year were the men's business meetings during the summer. It was late on a Sunday night, it was still daylight and there was no school the next day. The business meeting meant an ...

The only time the CoC I went to ever really had sermons related to current events was when someone famous died. I remember after both Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II died, our preacher changed his sermons the following Sunday to how they were in hell because they "didn't do what the bible s...

Did anyone else go to a church where the elders and preacher seemed obsessed with having extra bible studies during the week? We always talk about how the CoC was a three time a week gig, but I remember in my teenage years we were lucky if it was just three times a week. When I was 13 or 14 one of t...

My old church took out an ad space at the local movie theater. Their ad was a plain blue background with small blue text with the church name and address on it. Absolutely no thought or effort went into it whatsoever. During business meetings putting ads in the paper or online always came up, but it...

I remember once there was a big uproar because someone just took a small piece of the cracker and didn't actually break it. Some people thought it was ok, some thought that she needed to take it again Sunday night because she didn't partake "in a manner pleasing in thy sight". So ridiculou...

Also, if we were sick enough to stay home from church, we were ALSO too sick to be in the den watching television. You had to be bedridden to be too sick for church. YES!! I can still hear my dad say, "If you're well enough to watch tv, you're well enough to go to church." Even when I sta...

As most of you well know, the single most important thing as a CoCer is church attendance. It doesn't matter how good of a person you are, doesn't matter how much you do to help others. If your butt isn't in the pew every Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, gospel meeting, vacation bible ...

The worst for me was the embarrassment of inviting a friend to a church that I knew had ridiculous beliefs and having to apologize beforehand if anyone insults or puts their beliefs down. Then of course you were expected to bring all your friends to church, but you don't dare go to their church, not...