At the suggestion of Mark, I’m going to put down some ideas about upgrading the worship service of a typical Church of Christ. Of course, there’s no such thing as a typical Church of Christ. Some would find many of my ideas doctrinally objectionable. Some won’t be large enough to try some of the ideas. Some will find my ideas too conservative, even a bit stodgy.
Some of these will be borrowed from previous posts, but most (not all) of those posts were written a long time ago, before most of my current readers were reading. And it’ll help to have all these ideas in one place.
Now, a few doctrinal and procedural thoughts before we get down to the worship itself.
* Yes, I said “worship.” I could just as well have said “the assembly.” But “worship” is quite permissible, too, you know. Continue reading
One of the most pronounced identity markers of the Churches of Christ and Christian Churches is our view of baptism. In contrast to most evangelical churches, we reject infant baptism, insist on baptism by immersion, and consider baptism the moment when salvation occurs.
Garrett’s twelfth and final wish for the Churches of Christ is —
I’ve been reading J. K. Rowling’s Tales of Beedle the Bard — fairy tales for wizards and witches (part of the Harry Potter series). It’s put me in the mood to write my own.
