What is a Church of Christ?
'It should be love.” That was Jeff Cash’s answer to the question, “What would you say defines a Church of Christ?” Cash, an American missionary…
Archive: Feb 2018
Big Questions: About this series
In the United States, Churches of Christ are declining. Every three years, 21st Century Christian publishes the directory "Churches of Christ in the United States."…
‘No matter how broken we may be’
The Christian Chronicle received 645 responses to our survey, “A closer look at Churches of Christ in the U.S.” So many of our readers blessed…
About The Christian Chronicle’s survey
A total of 645 Christian Chronicle readers took the survey, “A closer look at Churches of Christ in the U.S.” Respondents represented all 50 states…
Millennials stress worship, not labels
Millennials, more than the other age groups, focused on worship as they responded to the Chronicle’s survey. A Church of Christ has “a desire to…
Count thy many members
As a data collector, Carl Royster said he and his colleagues at 21st Century Christian strive to define Churches of Christ in a way that…
Believers under 30 question fellowship’s nondenominational claim
The New Testament took precedence when Christians under age 30 — the smallest demographic of respondents to The Christian Chronicle’s survey — defined Churches of…
Baby boomers see fading sense of family in Churches of Christ
Baby boomers used a broad range of terms to describe Churches of Christ — “Bible,” “God,” “Jesus,” “baptism” and “New Testament” being the most prominent…
Generation X seeks compassion, not politics
'Is it a museum, or is it a hospital?” Amy Whitaker asked — displaying the tongue-in-cheek cynicism of Generation X — as she responded to…
A fellowship’s true founder
Regardless of where they stand on the issues that divide congregations, the survey respondents and reviewers agreed that Churches of Christ should be defined not…
