The Christian Church is made
up of thousands of individual congregations of Christians only. The Church
accepts, without reservation, Jesus Christ as the divine Son of the living
God and acknowledges His leadership in all things; the divinely inspired
Word of God as the only infallible rule of faith and practice for all
Christians; and, the restoration of men and women to the New Testament
Church as the true basis of Christian unity. Seeking to be a New Testament
congregation, it is autonomous in its government, adhering to the
commandments, precepts and example set forth in the New Testament. Unity,
liberty and love are the ideals of its people.
The Christian church is loyal to Jesus Christ and the teachings of His
Word and therefore has as its only rule of faith and practice the Word of
God, the Bible. Thus the Christian church simply attempts to duplicate the
pattern of the church revealed in the New Testament and be a
non-denominational New Testament Church.
The plea which the Christian church proposes is not to go back through the
existing churches but to go back directly; to let go of all creeds,
parties and all humanism and go back now and right where they are: to
return and take their stand with the apostles and those first Christians;
to believe what they believed; to confess what they required people to
confess; to do what they required people to do and to be content to be
what they required people to be; to make the New Testament as
authoritative in all things essential to salvation.
The Christian church has long been characterized by various slogans:
“Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are
silent.”
“In faith--unity; in opinion--liberty; in all things--LOVE.” “No creed,
but Christ; no Book but the Bible; no name but the divine; no plea but the
Gospel.”
The Christian church is an effort to restore the Church as it was in the
very beginning When the first sermon was preached on the day of Pentecost
and 3,000 were baptized into Christ.
