Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Welcome to our Board. We are glad to have you. Parents can be difficult, but you don't have to tell them everything, as others here have said. I am a bit surprised you have not gotten any flack from the COC that you attend on Wednesdays. My old churches would have harassed me about my absence on Sun...

I am earnest in my search for understanding. When I became a member of the CofC I followed blindly. Now I like to know what it is that I am thinking about believing and I want to understand in the most total way I can. I have searched the scriptures and have not found where it says that Mary was bo...

My old COCs certainly did not ignore divorce. Those who divorced and then remarried were chastised and usually they left.

Welcome to our board! I also lost good friends when I left the COC. If they are true believers, they have to shun those who leave. And it can be scary for them to talk to you or me about COC beliefs, because they don't want to develop doubts of their own. Tough living with family when you are going ...

Ashes wrote:When I first saw the title, I thought it was about people who wanted to sacrifice a sheep. We had a preacher who wanted to try that as an experiment. The idea didn't go very far.

Now that was one nutty preacher!

Sorry to hear about your dad's diagnosis.

Even our west Texas town has a synagogue. (Not the tiny town near the ranch, the somewhat larger town an hour away.) One of their long-term members (is that even the right word?) came to live in the nursing home where I worked. He kept kosher, and no one except me seemed to understand any of the rul...

Ivy wrote: I no longer have anyone who gives a rat's rear whether or not I warm a cofc pew.

Actually, I care, Ivy. I would be traumatized if I heard you had returned to the One True Church!

Congrats!

This song is in memory of the terror we felt during the COC efforts to bring us back into the fold, and then our relief when they finally gave up. ANSWER THE PHONE (Cindy Walker) Sung by Ernest Tubb - 1955 So Answer The Phone when it rings, darlin’ And if somebody knocks let them in You don’t have t...