Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

I still love a good old fashioned western. Sadly, I find most modern made ones to be much too crude and vulgar in language and bloodshed to be especially entertaining. Now, I know the westerns of the old days romanticized and sanitized some pretty awful events of the past but still, they were and ar...

If you drank water from an NI baptistry you would be likely to come down with cholera or dysentery. It's not changed out very often. There are places that only fill the baptistry when they are going to use it and in that situation the thing sits uncleaned collecting dust, bugs, etc for months at a ...

I have a question and its been worrying me to death. Really, I can't sleep Im so worried about it so you guys and gals get me set straight. I had a thought about the church we all lurv here. It concerns the noninstitutional kind. A man or woman decides to get baptized in a noninstitutional CoC. How...

I guess their logic is that the church building was constructed and maintained from the church treasury..."the Lord's money". So there should be no social activities occuring within the building. Only activities "authorized" in the bible. And yet, marriage is supported in the bi...

I don't understand the coC's concern with leading anyone astray; by their doctrine, it really makes no difference. Everyone is going to hell anyway.

I saw it done a few times during my years in the hard line coC. It was never pretty and it always seemed to me to be applied very selectively. I was threatened with it when I left the hard line congregation, I was at, for a much more liberal one that the Head Elder's own daughter had gone to. I push...

"and a Spanish language service - indicating a reasonably sized Hispanic element nowadays." That is really fascinating. I live in Southeast Ohio now and the two most common churches are Church of Christ and Methodist. I've never seen a Church of Christ advertising a Spanish service. They ...

I always found the coC's teaching on works and salvation to be an extreme example of double speak. My understanding of the doctrine was: Works don't save you but you can't be saved without works. A perfect example of wanting to have a thing both ways. They didn't want to validate their critics' clai...

Little kiddie Christmas parties with Santa have been pretty common place in coC church houses around here for probably 25 years at least. At my old coC they had the party one Saturday and the following Sunday morning, the tree was still up in the "fellowship room" where the S.S. class I ta...

I remember at least one preacher in the church I attended as a child used to tell stories about people dying in hospitals wanting to be baptized. Often they had a bathtub big enough for this and sometimes even had to hold their hands over the tracheostomy tube/tracheostomy to perform the immersion....