Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

I remember hating it. The 3x a week sentence to become bored out of my mind. I remember I dipped snuff, a particularly good one called copenhagen, and I would put a dip in and just sit there in church. Talk about crazy! But I digress...since I don't dip anymore...however I hated the you must be ther...

i grew up going 3 x a week...but my parents were brought in as orphans...they were raised by ex-lutherans who converted to the COC. I'm now 12 years free from the COC...don't go anywhere and don't expect I ever will...just got tired of people being people and what not...

"going forward" or he "went forward". Interestingly, when I was growing up in NE Texas it was called "going down to the front" or "going to the front". I didn't hear the "going forward" phrase until I moved to another area of Texas. it was sometimes...

Ivy wrote:Just wondering how many of us here have been preached into hell at a cofc funeral?

I've heard the flip side too being preached into heaven at a funeral...

i'm saddened to hear about your struggles...there are no words of comfort one can give other than (hugs)

hope you're doing alright now ... I've learned forgiveness is personally a way for me to say wow that sucked ok don't let it happen again [fool me once, fool me twice, fool me a 3rd time] but I can relate - I had a upbringing in a cofc - they struggled to get one elder as none of the "qualified...

i can tell you with 100% honesty the lack of judgment by people is great...
I definitely see the lack of love when in the cofc when all they do is judge righteously and zealously

Hi welcome!

I'm in the done group of people on church. I do believe in God but don't believe that was why I left. I was tired of the constant judgement of people in church. I don't think I'm agnostic, or atheist, but would express that those of you who are have the right to choose a path just like I have. I was...

My wife and I left around the same time...we had been attending mostly rural churches and they can be some of the most stubborn minded people ... We had talked about leaving for months and now she goes to a home church run by an ex-elder who started his own church as he thought like we did that the ...