The Churches Of Christ: A Comparative Essay
Over the past ten years there has been much controversy in the Christian and
secular media about the International Churches of Christ (ICC), and the United
(or mainline) Church of Christ (CoC). This controversy has stemmed from the
ICC's misuse of funds, doctrinal problems, member abuse, and mind-control. The
differences between the CoC and the ICC are important for Christians know and
understand.
The CoC began in 1957 when these four groups merged The Congregational Churches,
The Christian Church, The Evangelical Synod of North America, and The Reformed
Church in the United States. These churches had firm Protestant roots in
England, Germany, Sweden, and the United States, totaling ...
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Church of Christ (mainline), met a young
college student, Kip McKean, and began discipling him. Kip was a bright student
and showed great potential for leadership in the church. However, something in
the discipling process went wrong. Kip was expelled from the Gainesville church
later that year for reasons dealing with departure from the CoC doctrine,
manipulative attitude, unclear motivation, and controlling of other's lives.
Kip and his wife Elena moved to Boston and started a small church that grew
rapidly from thirty to over three hundred disciples in two months. Kip (who, by
this time, proclaimed himself as "God's man for God's mission") then declared in
his Evangelism Proclamation speech in 1981 that disciples of his Boston church
would be sent out to start sister churches in London, Chicago, New York, Toronto,
Providence, Johannesburg, Paris, Stockholm, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Bombay,
Cairo, and throughout the United States by the year of 1985. His success ...
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