Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

That they were established on the Day of Pentecost in A.D. 33. In reality, the modern coC can trace it's origin no further back than Barton Stone's Cane Ridge meeting in 1801. To claim more than that is gross prevarication. The coC isn't identified by that name until around 1906. They are far from b...

TBH, I have never been a big fan of Paul. Why is he on such a pedestal? He was solely responsible for extending the Jesus movement to gentiles, before him it was limited to Jews What about Peter and the household of Cornelius in Acts chapter 10? Were they not the first recorded gentile converts to ...

But why? Why is this night different from all others?

A hermeneutic is a method of interpreting the Bible. The standard hermeneutic of the coC is C.E.N.I., Command, Example, and Necessary Inference. I remember there was an uproar in this area back in the late 80s because several very educated, prominent coC preachers declared a need for a new hermeneut...

How many others heard the Gospel described as: facts to be believed, commands to be obeyed, and promises to be received? Working within that framework, the Gospels become facts to be believed. They are taken at face value and the preaching quickly passes on to other talking points. I don't think mo...

The sad reality is that in the coC the gospels aren't of much importance not even the crucifixion and resurrection. The total emphasis was always on Paul's letters. EVERYTHING else took a back seat to the writings of Paul. Honestly, if they thought they could get away with it they would rename the d...

I liked to smoke that sticky green ill shit when I was cOC Do tell??? I got in trouble more than once for asking "based on Genesis chapter one where God tells man that HE gives him every seed bearing herb for his use, how can we justify outlawing something God gave us?" I never really got...

I read about two events occurring at CoC Universities that I consider both very revolutionary in different ways. First is a woman spoke at chapel at Harding Univesity, some considered her talk heretical. Her name is Tiffany Yecke Brooks, author of several books you can find at Amazon, there is not ...

Agri wrote:

I would like to just say: Paul Tucker was a genuinely good man, a kind man, and a man of great faith.

I would give this statement the heartiest and most sincere AMEN! that I am humanly capable of producing. Bro. Paul was a sweetheart and truly devout.

I remember one who did not marry until he was in his mid 40s. And he married a woman who was 8-10 years older than him. I think his home church was in East Tennessee but he did Gospel Meetings in Kentucky and West Virginia with some regularity. I've seen more than a few congregations where, if some...