Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Yes, we have a few Eckhart Tolle books. I find them very peaceful when I am dealing with others. It helps me to process where they care coming from, and my response. It's been years since we first read them, but when I am dealing with certain people, I pull them out to remind myself where I need to ...

Wow! I feel so sorry for your Dad- how humiliating. My hope is that he will look back and reflect on how he has been treated and realize that YOU didn't do this, THE ELDERS did. This entire situation is so dysfunctional- the Elders there must be extremely controlling! I'm glad you have escaped, and ...

What is 'acting as if there is God'? What does that look like? Going to worship services? Teaching my kids that it's true? Just living a 'moral' life (no drinking, swearing, cheating, stealing, murdering)? Can I drink a little and swear a little, and still be moral? Is that living as if God is real?...

We had an area-wide singing one Friday a month, and would have to travel an hour+ to whatever congregation was hosting. I also did all the Bible Bowls. We didn't do actual devotionals at home, but we had to do BB study- we couldn't go do anything fun unless we had our section pretty much memorized. ...

Hi all! I was active on the past board, but somehow never made it over here. Looking forward to chatting with you all again, and meeting the new members. I've now been out of the COC for over 13 years! Amazing!