Church of Christ

by TheListener 22 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  MegaDude

  I don't know, Auldsoul.

  I was familiar with the ICOC or The Boston Movement or Kip McKean's version of COC before my Tour of Churches through the book "Combatting Cult Mind Control." I asked if they were affiliated with this group and got strong distasteful replies that they certainly were not. The mere mention of Kip McKean's name caused a strong negative emotional response. One minister told me that branch of COC was "lost."

  I'd refer you to this Wikipedia article on Church of Christ. I don't know how reliable the information is. This snippet from the article was pretty much my experience with them.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_christ

  Today, Churches of Christ have the following distinctive traits: the refusal to hold to any creeds other than those specifically mentioned in the Bible itself; the practice of youth and adult baptism (but not infant baptism) as a requirement for the remission of sins; autonomous non-denominational congregational church organization, with congregations overseen by a plurality of male-only elders; the weekly observance of The Lord's Supper; and the belief in a cappella congregational singing during worship.
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  Check_Your_Premises

  Listener,

  I didn't read the whole thread so sorry if someone already pointed this out...

  I think there are two seperate COC's. One is a cult that uses the same name as the bigger, orthodox group. I am not sure how to distinguish the two. If you show up and get love bombed, you know which one!

  CYP
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  TheListener

  From Wikipedia:

  • Church of Christ is also the name of a number of Restorationist churches:
    • Fellowships influenced by the (Stone-Campbell) Restoration Movement, found mainly in the United States and Australia, which include:
      • The very conservative Churches of Christ (often designated "Non-Instrumental").
        • The International Churches of Christ, an offshoot of the Churches of Christ.
      • Less frequently, the ("Instrumental") Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ.
      • The Churches of Christ in Australia
      • The Fellowship of Churches of Christ in the United Kingdom
      • The Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand
    • The fellowships with a shared Mormon heritage, which include:
      • The Church of Christ (Mormonism), was the first name of the Latter Day Saint sect founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr., which was also called the "Church of the Latter Day Saints", and later settled as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. See
        • The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) (a Latter Day Saint sect).
          • The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message (broke away from the Temple Lot group in 1929).
        • The Church of Jesus Christ with Headquarters in Monongahela, Pennsylvania (a Latter Day Saint sect, also known as the "Bickertonites", which until recently called itself the Church of Christ).
        • The Church of Christ (Whitmerite) (an extinct Latter Day Saint sect).

  • In the United States, the United Church of Christ (or UCC) is a Protestant denomination formed from the union of several earlier denominations.
  • Church of Christ is also sometimes used as the name of the Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as Christian Science.
  • The Church of Christ in Congo is the administrative and spiritual union of the 62 protestant denominations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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  Forget it, I'm done with all of them. anyone know anything about the methodists?