Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

I was told in the older days (50's and 60's I guess) wearing a suit, particularly for preachers was absolutely mandatory. There was a story about Foy Wallace preaching in a hot church without air conditioning and he took his coat off much to the offense of many. Someone told the people knowing that ...

Mark Twain defined faith as "believing in something that you know is really not true". I heard that one from a CoC minister.

Looked fake but I am not sure.

First please define for me what you consider to be a sin? Then we can discuss this issue. Saying that a practice is unhealthful is sinful seems somewhat ridiculous to me.

I will say this: when I was really heavily into it (the Christian faith in general, not specifically c/c), it seemed like the NT held abundant material for learning. It seemed magical, like you could look into it every day or several times a day and glean something new. I can understand what you ar...

[qI can understand your perspective given what I've heard you say about your "church". I'm not sure how one would unpack such learning, it's so adverse to Christianity, it's almost a hopeless endeavor, it would seem to me. [/quote] Its not "my church" it is my relatives, I just ...

Actually I think they are just trying to find something to talk about in their sermons. The New Testament really doesn't have much interesting, Can you imagine teaching just from the New Testament twice Sunday and also teaching classes on Sunday and Wednesday night like most preachers do for say 20-...

Lecture Sunday was about how Nehmiah fought his to develop a righteous nation. Tried to tie this to modern day Christianity. Really didn't make any sense.

Well Paul was really the founder of Christianity wasn't he? Jesus just wanted to reform Judaism until a new kingdom arrived.

When I attend church with my mother (standard basic CoC church) I notice that 75% of the sermons come from the Old Testament, the other 25% are from the NT and some just general "make our church better" sermons. I find it curious that there is so little material in the NT that the preacher...