Commitment to Christ Ceremony!

[longdistancerunner]

My sister goes to a very liberal CoC. They have praise singers and a band. However it is a place many retired professors from a very conservative CoC college go to.

After people there have a baby they have a commitment to Christ ceremony, where the parents dedicate the child to Christ. I was amazed in that this smacks of infant baptism in many ways. It is the child's decision. Anyone else heard of anything like this?

Another thing they do is they do not pass the collection plate after communion (lot of people give online). However instead they have the children come to the front of the congregation and make contributions, both their money and money/checks for their parents. Does anyone else consider t his weird?

And I wonder how the former CoC University professors are able to explain away how after fighting instrumental music for their lives now that it is fine. Also they have to think this involvement of children has to smack of practices of the Catholic Church like infant baptism.

[B.H.]

This is easy to explain. The Pope, being a son of Satan and antichrist, spied the freedom in Christ the Church of Christ has and decided to try to lead some sheep astray. Using his diabolical magic arts he turned some of his priests and nuns into what looked like Church of Christ professors and their spouses. They are not real true professors but Catholic priests trying to do the popes bidding. If someone from a faithful congregation came and threw the baptismal water of their church on them while passing out tracts by Batsell Barrett Baxter and eight tracts of Roy Cogdills sermons those professors would turn back into priests with all that girly Catholic like dress they wear.then everyone would see the light and laugh at them.

[Ivy]

Another thing they do is they do not pass the collection plate after communion (lot of people give online). However instead they have the children come to the front of the congregation and make contributions, both their money and money/checks for their parents. Does anyone else consider t his weird?

I think it's weird.

I attended a N Texas mega church for a while, long ago. They would have collection every service (which I thought was inappropriate), and on Sunday morning they would have the children come down and put money in a boot.

I felt offended. Why so much emphasis on money, yet they only did communion...maybe every quarter? Not every Sunday. That got my cofc hackles up at the time.

I never understood what the boot was about.

[B.H.]

The boot story brought back a happy memory.

When I was very little I over heard my dad telling Mom they didn't have enough money for this or that. We went to church at the no Sunday school church then and that next service they passed the plate and grabbed it and said " Here daddy now you have money".

My dad loved to joke with me about that one. After the church closed a few of the old people would giggle about it too.

[teresa]

And I wonder how the former CoC University professors are able to explain away how after fighting instrumental music for their lives now that it is fine. Also they have to think this involvement of children has to smack of practices of the Catholic Church like infant baptism.

I suspect that the former professors had evolved in their views about musical instruments over time and avoided the topic while teaching because they didn't want to lose their jobs.

[B.H.]

And I wonder how the former CoC University professors are able to explain away how after fighting instrumental music for their lives now that it is fine. Also they have to think this involvement of children has to smack of practices of the Catholic Church like infant baptism.

I suspect that the former professors had evolved in their views about musical instruments over time and avoided the topic while teaching because they didn't want to lose their jobs.

Hmmm. I think my theory is best.