[fwdude]

Which Church of Christ? There is the heretical “United” brand (formerly ‘Congregational’), which bends (over) with every wind of the world, and there is the orthodox brand, the one that doesn’t use instruments in their worship and is very dogmatic about how one lives his life (not always a bad thing.)

[Responsibility2nd]

If you want to refute “works” as a necessary condition unto salvation, does that also include repentance, confessing, believing and other actions involving me?

[Vinylly]

We have a Church of Christ across the street from us. The minister is a Lesbian and they fly the gay, lesbian, transexual colorful flag at their front door. They could fly the Christian flag if they wanted to. However we never attend their services so it’s really none of our business, but I have talked with their minister a few times.

[Ditter]

When I was 12 years old I decided I wanted to go to church. My father had a falling out with someone at our Lutheran church , I have no idea what it was about. The only church within walking distance was a Church of Christ about a block away.

I walked down and joined a Sunday School class. Apparently I caught the eye of someone, a lone child at church so I was called into the Pastors office.

He asked why my parents were not with me and told me if I could not get them to join the C of C that they were going to hell. My parents were good Christian people who read the Bible and believed!

I made me so mad I was crying by the time I got home. I never went back and I have had no respect for the C of C ever since.

[youthphil]

I’m a member of a Church of Christ. We do not follow Barton Stone or anyone named Campbell. We do follow Jesus Christ, and only him. We don’t believe that one is saved by getting wet, but we do follow the New Testament example of baptism as part of one’s salvation, which is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. We actually use instruments in worship. We do not believe we are THE only Christians. We do believe that we are ONLY Christians. We fellowship with, and claim as brothers and sisters in Christ many who are part of other churches, even denominational churches. Please be careful not to cast too wide of a net when discussing the Church of Christ.

[grumpa]

The Church of Christ is not monolithic. There is a moderate movement within the group. The challenges are for the traditional ultra-conservative faction—which probably still is the dominant faction. See our article “Bible Questions for the Church of Christ.” We get angry challengers to the article from the hard liners among them, but there is a lot of truth revealed in our article:

http://www.faithfacts.org/world-religions-and-theology/church-of-christ