And, you ignore all the Church of Christ members that tell you differently and you trust your own visit of two?
How interesting. Apparently you have a closed mind and do not want to hear what the Church of Christ is.
It has always been very interesting to me that when a Baptist church is mentioned, there is no need to deride it, but mention the Church of Christ and everyone jumps on them simply because they use the Bible as the source of their beliefs.
Makes you wonder why the automatic attacks on a simple church teaching from the Bible. What is there not to like?
Must be that they believe the Bible is the source of knowledge rather than man-made creeds. That then threatens the church hierarchies. Very interesting..........
No, I have attended six in four states - Indiana, Iowa, Texas and South Dakota.
I have found extreme ignorance about the founding and the history of the CoC by the members that I have talked to and not one will accept the history as I have posted above.
The CoC churches that I have attended appear to prefer ignorance and have found their Biblical knowledge to be more directed along the paths that their individual pastors have directed them. 4 out of the 6 churches had members that told me that the only important books of the Bible were Luke and Acts and everything can be learned from them.
I am not attempting to deride CoC members. They appear to me to be most sincere and willing to learn the word of God. The power structure on the other hand, is most instructive of the individual churches.