sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
I personally am not familiar with the Campbell movement, in fact I only heard of it about two weeks ago, but the Churches of Christ in my area dont seem to regard the movement with any kind of authority. I grew up in a Church of Christ, left for about 3 years or so while I was in High School, but recently started attending another Church of Christ. In all the 17 years of so Ive been attending a Church of Christ Id never even heard of Campbell, until about two weeks ago while browsing the internet.
To be honest, Ive never really looked at any official Church of Christ doctrine. I do know that they officially believe that one must be baptized for salvation, but I personally would disagree with that. I believe that salvation comes from faith alone, and not any human ceremony or work. I do believe that baptism is a step of obedience, and that anyone with true faith will be baptized, but that it is a work of obedience to God. Salvation comes through faith alone and there is no need to worry about things such as was I baptized correctly or do I need to be baptized again, or anything else relating to works.
Churches of Christ do believe that there are apostate faiths, but not because they arent Churches of Christ. We believe that anyone with faith in Christ will be saved. Im not sure of the Church of Christ official stance on religions that believe in faith + works for salvation, such as Catholics, but I would say that anyone who thinks they have earned salvation is probably not saved.
Bear in mind that I'm DOC (and there are some differences between us), but I'm not aware of any "official doctrine" for either Churches of Christ, Christian Churches, or DOC churches. Am I wrong? If so, could someone elucidate?