Get around much?
The only thing that’s consistent about the CoC individual churches is their variation. I’ve known four that shattered under their own inner fighting about what is biblical and what isn’t. What it really was about was power. The individual or group pursuit of power.
Basically, the people followed their pastor or else a power group within the church took it over and brought somebody else in. Chaos and turmoil. Or else stasis. I have not yet had the experience of a healthy CoC church.
Yeah, I’ve worshipped in dozens of churches of Christ all over the country. California, Neveda, Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, Florida, Georgia, and all over the state of Alabama.
And I found them remarkably conistent in practice and belief.
It is not power.
When people strongly believe they are following what Christ laid out for His church, they get really sensitive about those that seek to change that. There are problems with the young wanting change and the older ones feeling the wanted changes are wrong for any number of reasons.
Both sides strongly believe their way is correct and eventually a split occurs. Both sides have good points. Also, at one time some churches were infiltrated with the Boston Movement that took over churches from within and corrupted them. So, members are a bit sensitive to the motives and results of the changes.
But power is not the issue. How very petty. Maintaining their church is the issue.