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At a recent Wednesday night Bible class where we our studying the Holy Spirit, the teacher said that the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a 1 time event that happened at Pentecost. He said that the baptism of the Holy Spirit was when He was poured out for everyone, but that only those who become...

Does anyone here have any opinions on Saturday night worship replacing Sunday worship? I read a blog post from Jay Guin about this. Here are some quotes from the article Saturday Night Worship? | One In Jesus I think the only time I've ever taken communion other than on a Sunday was...

I know it is common for those in the Church of Christ to use Command Example & Necessary Inference (CENI) as a way of determining how Christians should live and worship. I've been thinking about Example today and Acts 20 & the Lords Supper. In the past I've had a problem with using this as a...

A couple of weeks ago in bible class (in a small Church of Christ) the teacher asked if their were Christians in denominations. Now in this class we'd been studying various aspects of the church, like how one joins, how its described, how its named, and various other things like that. I...

Phi 2:12 Can anyone help me out with this verse? Paul was writing to people who were saved already right so what does he mean by them working out their salvation? Is this comparable to what he said in Heb 12:1 Is he talking about perservering as christians or something else?

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this or not, but I'm wondering where baptism came from? When John started baptizing people was this some new thing or were the people already familiar with the concept? When John started preaching and baptizing would the people have been freaked out (I...

Flesh99's post in the "No Exceptions" thread got me thinking about church divisions. I'm wondering what people would view as a legitimate reason for a church to divide (other then size). Women elders? Communion not being served every week? Instrumental music? Overhead projector being used...

I was reading some articles over at the website Waymark posted in another thread (the-churchofchrist.org) and one of them was on jury duty. I had no idea that there was a question of whether it is right to serve on jury duty - so obviously I haven't spent any time studying the question. After...

I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on churches without elders or deacons? The church I grew up in didn't have any and soon I'll be moving back close to it (although there is a church with elders and deacons that will be closer). Would you have a problem attending a church without elders...

I'm not a Catholic, but I was watching Mother Angelica and had a question about the titles Mother and Sister. What is the difference between the two titles? The only Mothers I've heard of are Mother Angelica and Mother Teresa.