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| Hillside church of Christ Plains, TX |
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What Kind of Church are you part of? A Christian church Our message is that "Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God." We require no other creed. He alone is Lord and Savior. A church of Christ The church belongs to him. We have no authority to change the teachings, rewrite the rules, alter membership requirements, or usurp his place. The church is not a democracy. A church seeking unity We seek to be one in Christ with all others he calls his own. A church seeking to restore We try to imitate the New Testament precedents. That is why our preaching is about Christ, our baptism is by immersion, our communion is every Lord's day, our leaders are called elders, and our singing is a cappella. Even what we call ourselves is rooted in the earliest days, when disciples were called Christians and their congregations were often addressed as "churches of Christ." An apostolic church The church, Ephesians 2:19, 20 states, is "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone ." Whatever we know about Christ and the church we learned from Jesus' closest companions, the apostles. A thinking church In the same Ephesian letter, Paul prays that God will give "a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him..." Christian faith demands the best our minds can give, so we are a studying church, seeking to apply biblical truth intelligently. A feeling church Ours is not a dryly intellectual approach to God, however. We rejoice, praise, pray, love, and serve from the heart. A sharing church We share our faith and love with as many as we can reach and our possessions as persons who know that everything we have belongs to God to be used for his purposes. A free church We elect our own leaders, call and support our own ministers, decide where our mission money will go. We are not isolationists, though. Our congregations associate with and help one another. A growing church We want to grow, because we are under Christ's commission to disciple the world. We haven't completed the task yet, so we are renewing our commitment to go unto the ends of the earth, preaching and baptizing and teaching, until the whole world knows the one Lord of all.  |
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