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Sayings of the

CHRISTIAN CHURCH (Disciples of Christ)

 

One of the unique characteristics about the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is our lack of doctrine and creeds, believiving them to be divisive in the church.  Two sayings by early pioneers of our movement have aptly described this from our early day and on through to the present.
 
1.  “We have no doctrine, but the Bible.  No creed but Christ.”
2.  “In essentials unity; in non-essential liberty, in all things, charity.” 
 
There are things we believe are essential – things we need to be united in thought and purpose on. In the essentials we have unity.
 
Ephesians 4:4-6 “There is one body and one Spirit, there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father of us all.”  Essentials.
 
But there are a lot of things in the Christian life, the Christian walk, that are not essentials. They’re kind of open to however you interpret them, as you study, as you pray, as you ask God to show you.  There are some things you’re going to differ from other people on.  We consider a lot of these to be non-essentials and in those there’s liberty.  In those we can have diversity.
 
The point is:  In essential things we have unity. There are many other things that are open to interpretation and we have liberty in those.  And in all our beliefs, in all things we have love, we have charity. 1 Corinthians 13:2 “If we hold in my mind, not only all human knowledge, but also the very secrets of God and if I have the faith that can move mountains, but have no love, I amount to nothing at all.”

 

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