Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Perhaps this is a topic for another thread, but American Christians in general--and COCers in particular--seem way too patriotic to me. Lev I entirely agree, and it's not just CofCers. While certainly conservative, a lot of older southern CofCers I've known tended to skew toward's David Lipscomb's ...

As far as this ruling being the beginning of America's end, people have been prophesying that since the establishment of the republic. That obviously didn't happen in the late 1700s, and the SCOTUS ruling isn't ushering in the U.S.'s End of Days either.

I'm not entirely sure why COCers (and American religious conservatives in general) are getting so worked up about this. I can see why they would generally vote against same-sex marriage, but why is this particular issue so emotionally charged for COC members that they will make statements like &quo...

As for the reasons people keep kosher (doing all this is 'keeping kosher') those vary from person to person. All the way from 'It is written in the Torah/it is a commandment from God' to 'because it is what we (Jews) do'. I lean to the 'what we do' end of the spectrum because I view it mostly as a ...

I will never officially join or "place membership" at another church and will certainly never officially put myself "under the authority" of elders. No personal connections, no information, no doctrinal discussion, no nothing from me emotionally is how I do church now. They can ...

I mentally left the CofC based on doctrinal issues such as these. I physically left that particular congregation because of the creep that ran the place. I eventually came to grasp it was systemic and so there was no point in looking for a "better" CofC in which to join. There may be &quo...

I mentioned some of these issues to a friend of mine this afternoon, a former CofCer himself. He laughed and said, "Oooh, asking all those questions really means someone's more than halfway out the door, either of his own volition or someone's ready to toss him out!"

If contribution was a commanded act of weekly worship then how is it the congregations that Paul established on his journeys had to have a letter written to them to explain the existence of an act of worship? Wouldn't they have already been doing that since surely he would have told them how to wor...

Not to mention Paul's role in these churches - serving as a kind of roving elder/teacher/preacher, and telling individual congregations what they should be doing...it's as if the gospel preacher circuit also included a a roving elder who could and would deliver judgments and rulings on how they did ...

Some of your questions really point out that the early church simply wasn't consistent in its practices. If it was the product of absolute inspiration, why all the advice, commands, and letters? I know what a dyed-in-the-wool CofCer would say about that, but that's another matter.