Religious Authority

Views: 97[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.] The challenges of recent years to authority in home, school, marketplace and military were bound to have their parallels in religion. The very foundations of pontifical authority in Roman Catholicism…

How to Handle the Gospel

Views: 74[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Paul told Timothy to “handle aright the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). This passage also tells us that God’s approval depends upon our handling the Gospel properly. What does…

Are They Really So Nice?

Views: 57[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] It is common knowledge that a serious new thrust is being made to create unity between the churches of Christ and the Independent Christian Church. It has been distinctly implied…

What Is True Christian Unity Worth?

Views: 76[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] To speak of true Christian unity implies that a unity may exist that is less than truly Christian. There may indeed be a true unity in religious matters without its…

Elders Are Not “Lords Over” the Local Church

Views: 90[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Every context in the New Testament having to do with the responsibilities of elders of the church speaks of the authority of the eldership. This is plain enough in the…

Reflections on the “Restoration Summit”

Views: 91 [Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Manuscripts page.]   On August 7-9, 1984, a meeting billed as a “Restoration Summit” was conducted at Joplin, Missouri. The “Summit” was first conceived and suggested by brother Alan Cloyd of Nashville, Tennessee, in…

The “One Faith” of Ephesians 4:5

Views: 146[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,…

What About Worship?

Views: 77 [Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.]  Christian worship involves reverent acts of homage paid to God and/ or Jesus Christ. While the Old Testament is the inspired revelation of God, its authority perished with the…

The Church of Christ

Views: 108[Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Brief Articles 2 page.]             If the church Christ built is to exist in any age, there are certain principles to which men must be committed. As surely as men abandon any of these…