Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

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I'm really interested in hearing more about this. My journey out of the COC has lead me to some interesting churches over the past six years, but I'm finding more and more that I disagree with they way "church" is "done" in 21st century America. I haven't given up on my faith, bu...

The COC I grew up in changed a lot of the songs, but not all of them. In fact, some people got together and wrote their own songbook. (Looking back, I think that probably qualified as plagiarism since what they did was photocopy songs and white out/insert their own words. Then they bound those new a...

I've taken a thorough knowledge of the Old Testament history and laws. My husband is constantly amazed how much OT I know. (I'm constantly amazed at how LITTLE New Testament I knew before leaving the COC.) That's the only positive thing I've taken. The rest is all negative, and I'm at a point in my ...

I remember not being allowed to sell raffle tickets for a school fundraiser. I brought home a book of tickets that I was supposed to sell and the next day *I* (all of about 8 years old) had to return them to the teacher and explain to her that I couldn't help raise money for new playground equipment...

Perhaps you would both feel more comfortable in a more "branch" of the church of Christ, at least for a while. My own journey was somewhat like your description. My husband was not COC and could see right through it from day one. When we left, we went to a bigger COC for a few months. Then...

It's been a while since I've been on here, which is obvious since it appears the old site crashed sometime in October and it's not late January and I just noticed. So, I thought it would be nice to reintroduce myself. This month marks my six years out of the church of Christ denomination. I used to ...