Anyone here ex or current Church of Christ (Campbellite)?

[BH]

I was raised in the Church of Christ coming from the Alexander Campbell, Barton Stone American Restoration Movement. I got out of it light, my particular Church of Christ congregation did not believe in Sunday School, so I only got half the boring lectures on Sunday those with Sunday School did. Anyone else here have the joy of belonging to that denomination at one point?

Farrell Till was Church of Christ and so was John Loftis. I read Loftis came out of Church of Christs that use instruments on Sunday and was shocked to hear that and did more research. Turns out most of them do and always had, but it was a regional thing. The ones out west and north use it while those in the south of the US usually don't. Weird things you learn.

 

[Jobar]

Not I- though my maternal grandfather was a member of a fundamentalist Southern Baptist church that also considered musical instruments unholy. (I always suspected that some of the people in that congregation had attended services which involved handling snakes, or at least knew where those services took place...)

I don't want to derail BH's thread with the first response, but I'm curious how one of the most liberal denominations (United Church of Christ) came to have the same name as one of the most fundamentalist ones. BH, do you know?

 

[BH]

The United Church of Christ was a merger of some Congregational Churches with some Independent Methodists and some Brethren back in the 1950's and 1960's if I remember my religious history correct. Why they picked that name I do not know.

 

[Atheos]

As BH and many others already know, I was a church of Christ preacher for over 16 years. On the "conservative" scale I guess the ones I was affiliated with would go about an 8 out of 10. We didn't do the musical instruments but we did have Sunday School and were okay with supporting orphan's homes.

Among the oddities that characterized ultra-conservative church of Christ sects (and the capitalization was important as some of you know) were the following:

• One-cuppers - Believed that since they shared a cup during the first communion it was a sin to use individual cups.
• Anti-Sunday-School - Believed that since the bible didn't ever authorize breaking the congregation into age-based groups it was sinful to do so.
• Anti-Second-Supper - Believed that it was sinful to offer the communion twice on a Sunday (during the Sunday evening service for those who weren't able to make it to the morning service)
• Anti-Orphan-Home (AKA "Anti") - Believed that it was sinful to take money from the collection and give it to secular organizations such as orphan homes.