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  Church of Christ
The Churches of Christ are a body of autonomous Protestant congregations that have their roots in the American Restoration Movement of the Nineteenth Century.
Some, probably most, members would also object to the categorization of their church as a "denomination", as one of the tenets of this movement is that they are not a denomination and that denominationalism is a sinful departure from the original plan laid down in the Bible for the Church.
Churches of Christ mostly agree with the theology of other Fundamentalist Christian groups, believing in Jesus Christ as the son of God, the death of Jesus by crucifixion as atonement for sin, and most other basic Christian teachings.
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 Church of Christ (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Church of Christ is a term in Christian theology denoting the entire body of Christians throughout the world, no matter the denomination.
Because of the previous definition, Church of Christ is sometimes used as a synonym for the Holy Catholic Church and Holy Orthodox Church.
In the United States, the United Church of Christ (or UCC) is a Protestant denomination formed from the union of several earlier denominations.
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Church of Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Since the Churches of Christ claim to be a restoration of the first-century church, they trace their origin to the day of Pentecost.
Churches of Christ mostly agree with the theology of other Fundamentalist Christian groups, believing in Jesus as the Son of God, the death of Jesus by crucifixion as atonement for sin, and most other basic Christian teachings.
The Church of Christ believes that the organization and structure of the church was laid down by Jesus Christ himself through his apostles in the form of the New Testament.
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 Church of Christ - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Churches of Christ are a body of autonomous Christian congregations that have their roots in the American Restoration Movement of the Nineteenth Century.
Churches of Christ in the past might be characterized as a sect, since they believed that they are not another denomination but rather representatives of the true church.
The theology of Churches of Christ is basically Arminian, although probably not often referred to as such.
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 Church of Christ (disambiguation)
Church of Christ is also the name of a number of Restorationist churches:
The Church of Christ (Mormonism), was the first name of the Latter Day Saint sect founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr, which was also called the "Church of the Latter Day Saints", and later settled as the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints".
The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message (broke away from the Temple Lot group in 1929).
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 Catholicism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There are 24 sui iuris churches in what is termed full communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, which implies that they accept his authority in matters of faith and morals and his assertion of "full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church" (CCC §882; see also Papal infallibility).
In English the "Roman Catholic Church" is frequently referred to, and the Vatican itself uses the term, [1] although in different contexts it may call itself the Holy Roman Church, [1] or the Roman Church.
The early Christian church came to be organized under five patriarchs, the bishops of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople and Rome.
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However, the Churches of Christ claim to be a restoration of the first-century church, and prefer to trace their origin to the day of Pentecost.
Churches of Christ mostly agree with the theology of other conservative Evangelical Christian groups, believing in Jesus as the Son of God, the death of Jesus by crucifixion as atonement for sin, and most other basic Christian teachings.
The Independant Christian Churches/ Church of Christ (Instrumental) congregations began to divide from the Disciples of Christ in the 20th century during the fundamentalist response to modernism which solidified in the 1960s with two groups: the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ and the Disciples of Christ.
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 Churches_of_Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The churches of Christ are distinct, in that they believe that they are not another denomination, but rather are striving to be the one, true Church.
What was called the International Churches of Christ (sometimes called "The Boston Movement" which was grounded in the Church of Christ "Crossroads Movement"), was often labeled a cult by mainstream congregations, had its origins in certain congregations of the Church of Christ.
Since the late 1980s, however, some Church of Christ leaders had repudiated the Boston Movement as an apostatized, schismatic cult; the Boston Movement in turn declared itself to be a faithful remnant being called out of a dead or dying church, namely the mainstream Churches of Christ.
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 Mormon - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Members of the LDS Church prefer the slightly different, more exacting distinction "Latter-day Saint." The addition of the hyphen distinguishes the phrase which specifically refers to members of the LDS Church ("Latter-day Saint") from the phrase which more generally refers to all followers of Mormonism ("Latter Day Saint").
churches that resulted from the split after [Joseph] Smith's death." But this statement is ambiguous regarding churches that split from the LDS Church in the 20th Century, some of which continue to call themselves Mormons.
Sometimes "Restorationist" or "Restoration Movement" is used as umbrella terms, but they can lead to confusion since there is an entirely different group of Christian churches (those derived from the Campbellites or Stone-Campbell churches, for example, the Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ) which are also known as Restorationists.
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 Mormon - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In a press release (http://www.lds.org/newsroom/page/0,15606,3899-1---15-168,00.html) from 2001, the LDS Church stated that the word "Mormon" as an adjective in such expressions as "Mormon pioneers", "Mormons" as a noun in reference to church members, and "Mormonism" as a doctrine, culture, and lifestyle were all acceptable.
The LDS Church argues "Mormon", "Mormon fundamentalist" and "Mormon dissident" in reference to organizations or groups outside of the LDS Church (especially those that practice plural marriage) is a misunderstanding of Mormon theology, in particular the principle of continuous revelation and Priesthood authority.
Sometimes "Restorationist" or "Restoration Movement" are used as umbrella terms, for those derived from the Campbellites or Stone-Campbell churches, for example, the Church of Christ and the Disciples of Christ.
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 Church (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Church — a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship.
NB Several non-Christian religious groups also use the word "Church" in self-reference; for instance, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of Scientology, or the Buddhist Churches of America.
Richard William Church, an English divine and nephew of the general.
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 Church of Christ, Scientist - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Church of Christ, Scientist
The headquarters of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, is in Boston, Massachusetts, with branches in most parts of the world.
Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. Church of Christ (Mormonism)
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Belpre Church Of Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The word "church" is derived through Middle and Old English from the Greek κυριακον (δωμα) Lord's (house).
Christ, from the Greek Χριστός, or Khristós, means anointed, and is equivalent to the Hebrew term Messiah.
In the Hebrew faith tradition, anointing (with oil) was a key element of religiousceremony by which specific people were explicitly marked or set aside for a specific role: priests, kings, and prophets.
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A closer look at the church of Christ really requires one to understand how they go about their interpreation of the Bible.
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 Roman Catholic Church
The statue in the foreground is of Saint Peter, held by the Catholic Church to be the first Pope">Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
The Roman Catholic Church is also both the largest and the oldest continuously operating institution in existence.
The principal bishopric is that of Rome, whose occupant is known as the Pope, considered to be the successor of Saint Peter, the chief of the Apostles.
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Apostolic Succession from the early church; and 2.) those who believe that they are spiritual descendants of the Apostles neither retaining nor desiring organisational descent from the historic church.
Oriental Orthodoxy each consider themselves to be the universal and true Catholic Church, and typically regard the other of these families and the Western Catholics as heretical and as having left the One Holy Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
In the Roman Catholic Church it is administered to those who are “seriously sick”; when “seriously sick” was taken to mean “in danger of death”, among the Roman Catholics the sacrament was known as "extreme unction", part of "the last rites", but it was never so limited among the Orthodox.
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 Church (disambiguation)
The theology of the Church is called ecclesiology.
Those with the surname "Church" include the logician Alonzo Church (famous for the Church-Turing thesis), the painter Frederic Edwin Church, the writer Francis Pharcellus Church (famous for the editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"), and George W. Church, Sr, founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants.
Several non-Christian religious groups also use the word "church" in self-reference, as the Church of All Worlds and the Church of Scientology.
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 'Church of christ' lists at AllOurWeb.com
The Church of Christ in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, (in Lake county northwest of Chicago) invites you to study the Bible and worship God.
The fee is $150, payable to the Ann Arbor Church of Christ with Dynamic Marriage in the memo section.
Christ Church (Christ Episcopal Church) County:Glynn City:St. It was under his supervision that the first church at Christ Church would be built.
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 I am a Christian Too » Lutheran Heterodoxy?
Such church alliances are based on those confessions, and not the individual faith of those who may be members there.
5 Anglican Communion churches believe the authority of Bishops derives in part from the fact that each is ordained by the laying on of hands by a Bishop also so ordained, extending back to Peter, the first head of Christ’s church.
John Calvin, and hence the various Reformed churches, believed that communion is a remembrance of Christ.
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 Church of Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In addition, many members assert based on I Corinthians 11:28 that it is up to each participant to "examine himself," not the church.
The Gospel Advocate publishing house out of Tennessee, representing the original position within Churches of Christ and Restoration Movement, argued that such an understanding was not essential.
The only time the issue generally opens is when a Baptist or related Evangelical converts to the Church of Christ, and more than one opinion exists in the particular congregation whether rebaptism is needed or not.
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 Disambiguation
He then began explaining in simple terms that we were all sinners and that Christ died for us.
From years and years of sitting in fundamentalist churches, revivals and rally meetings I recognized those words.
When he was done he encouraged the children to talk to their leaders about "the very important decision you made tonight to follow Christ." None of the children in my group approached me - they'd moved on to a discussion of which Power Rangers show is the best.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is responding to the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina with supplies from The Slidell Louisiana Welfare Bishops' Storehouse, which was not impaired by the storm and is able to meet local needs.
SALT LAKE CITY The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is adding it's voice to the cacophony of objections to a decision to allow a radioactive waste storage facility to be built in Utah's west desert.
Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God Access critical doctor performance and experience information such as education, certifications, disciplinary actions and more.
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The term Mormon only refers to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Still, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prefer to be called "latter-day saints" over "mormons," as they feel that "mormon" is of an earthly nature while "latter-day saint" is a name given of God.
churches that resulted from the split after [Joseph] Smith's death." But this statement is ambiguous regarding churches that split from the LDS Church in the 20th Century, some of which continue to call themselves Mormons.
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 Beltway Church Of Christ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1) " Church" -- in the term Beltway Church Of Christ
2) " Of" -- in the term Beltway Church Of Christ
3) " Christ" -- in the term Beltway Church Of Christ
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 Church (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
NB Several religious groups also use the word "Church" in self-reference; for instance, the Church of All Worlds, the Church of Scientology, or the Buddhist Churches of America.
See mosque, synagogue, and temple for buildings of worship of these and other faiths.
The Church, a pop band formed in Sydney, Australia in the 1980s.
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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
an early spelling of the church that is now officially titled "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints";
See Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite).
See The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Style Guide (http://lds.org/newsroom/page/0,15606,4043-1---15-168,00.html) for more information.
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