Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

Absolutely we were taught that the Old Law was 'nailed to the Cross' and that everything UP TO that point was under the 'old law' (explains why Jesus was going to the Temple and talking about sacrifices and tithes). And THEN you had the 'new law' and Paul, Paul, Paul all over the place. If the NT we...

It certainly stops people from going nuts over signs of the end times and making theories about Armageddon out of Revelation.

Somebody said the quiet part out loud, huh?

That was pretty fast. I was told it was over instrumental music, but that seems too specific.

I slipped out the back Jack. Got a new plan, Stan. Basically, I ghosted them fifty years ago and never really looked back. Probably the old guard died off without ever realizing and the new guard never knew anyway. Lord knows, my PARENTS never told anybody! Mother thought it would make her look bad ...

It seems to me that the better quality CoC preachers - the ones with college and seminary - know quite a lot, but also know that their congregations do NOT know much background at all, and the CoC as a whole is not into 'let's educate everybody to a higher level' but instead is more focused on pasto...

We did 24 hours and more 'sings' but not praying like that. Where were you? Sings were a 'thing' in Tennessee. Songleaders would sometimes give us alternative tunes, or have everybody singing ALL the verses instead of one, two and five, or something like that. Also older songs, and some unfamiliar s...

I checked - Paul started preaching at C. H. in 1962 and continued until he died in 2000. (37 years +) at age 86. He had stepped kind of 'down' the last few years - the church was large and could support a second preacher (Tom Holland, then Dan Winkler - I guess that's when they started having a mini...

Paul Tucker was our preacher for decades - a very sweet man, rather low key but he actually got a lot done. His sons were just as nice. He tried, in the late 60s, to lead his CoC into the civil rights era, but nice as he was, he wasn't terrifically forceful. A peacemaker, not a warrior. OTOH, I neve...

My sister got married at Hillsboro because it had a bigger auditorium and they had something like a thousand invited guests (when I got married, I think I had 40). She had three preachers each with their specific assigned parts. Twelve bridesmaids and groomsmen. A gown with a train rivaling Princess...