Be careful! As far as I know Church of Christ is often used by fundamentalists (which are not of the LDS Church) also! - They are normally congregationalists or very often Restorationists (Campellites). — Someone please help me out?
The Church of Christ, Temple Lot is a small LDS sect…they are closer in theology to the RLDS(now Community of Christ) and the “Church of Jesus Christ” with headquarters in Monogahalia (sp) Pennsylvania.
Thank you! I think the one they attend is more of a fundementalist church- I’ve attended services here and there and most of the time that’s where family funerals are held also… the services are nothing like what I would expect in an off-shoot LDS church (although, I don’t know what those would be like either LOL, so take that with a grain of salt). The church they attend is HUGE… most of the churches of Christ here are pretty big.Be careful! As far as I know Church of Christ is often used by fundamentalists (which are not of the LDS Church) also! - They are normally congregationalists or very often Restorationists (Campellites). — Someone please help me out?
But you are right, there are Churches that are LDS offshots (and are more or less LDS) which use this name also, but usually with some kind of appendix.
The abbreviation CoC is normally used for the COMMUNITY of Christ (in former days: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), which is the second largest LDS Church offshoot (after LDS themselves) and is also found worldwide.
The other “Churches of Christ…” which are of LDS origin are to be found in the US only and usually they are really small.
Thank you. I don’t think this is the type of church my family attends.
That belief perplexes me a bit.No, they’re not an offshoot. Both Mormons and “Campbellites” were part of a broader network of “restorationist” movements in 19th-century America. Early on, the two groups did interact quite a bit. But the “Campbellites” never bought into Joseph Smith’s prophetic claims or his radically heretical theology.
He “fell” because of his pride. A prophet is not infallible nor “secure” in his prophethood…they can fall from grace as easily as anyone else…he’s a human subject to all human frailties.Thank you. I don’t think this is the type of church my family attends.
Off topic perhaps, but if a prophet really is a prophet, how could he ‘fall’?
Kinda like a “Great Apostasy”?
That non-denomination will split on a trivial theological point, claiming that the other side is doomed to hell and destruction. There probably are as many congregations that claim to be part of that non-denomination, that are not on that list, as are on it.
Yes, the thing with the non-denominational Churches is always, what exactly are they? They call themselves non-denominational, but they must have something like a basis or a teaching (Either it be Baptist, or Luther, or Calvin, or Zwingli or Wesley…) they build their Church upon.
I think it’s a little different. They were loyal to the LDS until Joseph Smith’s death. After his death a succession crisis grew. Joseph’s first wife, Emma, and a small group of followers proposed Joseph Smith’s son, Joseph III to be prophet, and theo the LDS picked Brigham Young. That’s when when thes split occurred, and the Joseph III followers returned to Independence, Missouri. The Doctrine and Covenants I think is still part of the COC books.
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Lucy26,
According to wikipedia the Churches of Christ are so called non-denominational Chuches, among some other.
There are over 200 known off shoots of Mormonism and some are called “COC”. Also, members of early Mormonism did in fact drift between Restoration Movement that gave us the modern COC and LDS churches.
There are three main branches of the movement. One of them (“Disciples of Christ”) are definitely a denomination. The other two have a very congregationalist polity and reject any kind of denominational structure that could exercise authority over local churches. the more conservative group does not use instruments, which is how you can tell them apart. The middle group, which split away from the Disciples some decades ago, are the ones who are most likely to advertise themselves as “non-denominational,” because one of the reasons they split with the Disciples was that the latter were developing denominational bureaucracy. A church belonging to this middle group may be called either a “Christian church” or a “Church of Christ.” One way to refer to the three groups is as the CCDC’s, the “Four C’s,” and the “Two C’s” respectively. I went to a “Four C” college, which is how I came to know something about this.
: Could you say that the non-denominatinal Churches are “Baptist”? Meaning that they believe in enthrusting one’s life to Jesus, Credo Baptism, Symbolic Lord’s Supper and believing sola fide, sola gratia, solus Christus, sola scriptura?**