Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Hopefully he then enrolled in a better, state university where adult students were treated like adults. Did he say? He finished his education at Lipscomb and was a respected gospel preacher for his entire life. He and the woman he so shamelessly held hands with raised five children together managin...

I knew a man who swore he was expelled from Freed in the early 1950s for holding hands with his future wife. Hopefully he then enrolled in a better, state university where adult students were treated like adults. Did he say? He finished his education at Lipscomb and was a respected gospel preacher ...

I knew a man who swore he was expelled from Freed in the early 1950s for holding hands with his future wife.

He must have had a very valuable and unique skill set for the army to do that.

Yes, the little country congregation where I spent the bulk of my coC years had some really beautiful and expensive, genuine leaded, stained glass windows. The old standard double hung windows were falling out and had to be replaced. The rich couple who ran the church insisted on going back with the...

I saw a 9-year-old get wet with my own eyes. I was appalled. My brother's son was baptized at 6 in a General Baptist church, but I didn't witness that one. He's now an atheist.

Ivy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:42 am Zeek, we might be related. My ancestors hailed from right around where you are.

Ivy, based on what I know of you from this site, I'd be proud to know we were kin.

When I went through a school of preaching in the midsouth in the late 80s early 90s we were required to take the Greek courses they offered. I still have a copy of Thayer's Lexicon and an interlinear text New Testament I had to buy for the classes. At the time and still today it seemed absurd to req...

Probably the best analogy I ever came across concerning the trinity was an egg. An egg has three distinct components...Egg the yolk, Egg the white, and Egg the shell. A sample of any one of these if properly identified will be called "egg" just as there is God the Father, God the Son and G...

All the congregations I ever participated in did acknowledge the trinity more or less. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...We never got much instruction about that last one; I suppose He's just too mysterious and spooky and it was my experience that the coC had pretty much reduced the Holy Spir...