Motto
In things essential UNITY
In non-essentials LIBERTY
and In all things CHARITY
Objectives
- To put forth every effort to proclaim God’s saving grace to the lost at home and in foreign fields
- To declare the whole counsel of God for the edification of believers
- To promote fellowship among God’s people
Principles
- The oneness of the Church of Christ
- Christ the only head
- The Bible the only rule of faith and practice
- Good fruits, the only condition of fellowship
- Christian Union without controversy
- Each local church governs itself
- Partisan political preaching discountenanced
The din and clamor of the Civil War surround the beginning of the C.U. denomination. Here is a history that smells of gunpowder and battlefield trench; that feels of cannon and musket and bayonet. It weeps for southern blacks, that rattle of chains and cruel auction blocks. It refuses to... click to read more