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The Future of the Churches of Christ: Christian College Attendance

Very interesting story in the Christian Chronicle, thanks to research by Flavil Yeakley. It seems that Church of Christ-affiliated universities are admitting fewer students who identify as members of the Churches of Christ. Here’s the data —

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Ministers Guilty of Sexual Sin: This Month’s Christian Chronicle

This month’s Christian Chronicle has a fascinating article about how to deal with a minister caught in sexual sin. Now, until you’ve had to deal with this, you likely don’t appreciate how truly terrible these situations are. And while there … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: The Marriage Metaphor

[I posted this earlier as a comment, in response to a comment by Keith. I need to post it here to set up the post that follows tomorrow.] I need to clarify that I don’t think mere teaching on grace … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: An Open Letter to Our Leaders

Ann wrote, I think you’re misunderstanding the mission and purpose of the Chronicle. I’ve always seen it as a neutral, reporting source (although of course there are those from many sides who would disagree). I don’t think it’s their job … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: The Christian Standard Weighs In (Introduction)

Some time ago, I posted a series of articles asking about the future of the progressive Churches of Christ. Are we going to merge with the independent Christian Churches? Become a collection of detached community churches with no common works? … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 9, A New Restorationism

It’s just so easy, and facile, to say the Restoration Movement has run its course and we need to do something else now. If that were entirely true, why aren’t we all Baptists or Methodists or something else? Why are … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 8, Predictions

Only God knows the future, and he’s not shared it with me. But here’s my best guess. And it’s part of why I’m so unhappy with how we progressives are acting. This is, of course, the unless-something-happens-to-fix-it version. * Many … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 7, On Being Held Back by Forgotten Fights

Now, one of the biggest reasons we don’t know how to cooperate to accomplish truly large tasks, such as missions, church planting, and publishing Sunday school literature, is the old “missionary society” controversy. A missionary society is just a nonprofit … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 6, Forgetting Who We Are

* The progressives are moving so rapidly into a generic evangelicalism that we may lose the Godly parts of our Restoration Movement heritage. We have much to contribute to the evangelical mainstream — but not if we forget who we … Continue reading

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The Future of the Progressive Churches of Christ: Part 5, Leaving the Conservatives Behind

* The progressives have largely turned our backs on the conservatives, not creating the literature or institutions necessary to bring more conservatives into the progressive fold. Let’s suppose that a group of progressive thought leaders got together to develop a … Continue reading

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