Church of Christ - pastoral structure

DoctorDuck said:
Here’s a question: would you be more comfortable sending your child to a Catholic college or a CoC college?
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I have experience with a Catholic college, in a way. Many Canadian universities, mine (the University of Waterloo) included, have denominational colleges affiliated with them--similar to the way a British university like Oxford or Cambridge is a federation of colleges, but more centralized. The university confers the degree, and the church colleges teach at least some of the courses.

I estimate that one-third to one-half of my English and philosophy courses were offered through St. Jerome's College rather than the arts faculty at the university proper.

I have no complaints about the quality of the courses offered at St. Jerome's. There's always a risk that a nominally Catholic institution will be "Catholic in name only," but a good number of my profs were pretty conservative in their views.

I have no experience with CoC institutions, but I find myself more naturally skeptical of such a narrowly sectarian school, for whatever reason.
 
Ransom said:
I have experience with a Catholic college, in a way. Many Canadian universities, mine (the University of Waterloo) included, have denominational colleges affiliated with them--similar to the way a British university like Oxford or Cambridge is a federation of colleges, but more centralized. The university confers the degree, and the church colleges teach at least some of the courses.
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Interesting. That is a very different setup than public universities in the U.S.
Ransom said:
I have no experience with CoC institutions, but I find myself more naturally skeptical of such a narrowly sectarian school, for whatever reason.
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That’s pretty much my feeling as well. I know in Catholicism, education is highly valued because it’s literally viewed as a stepping stone to being able to understand philosophy, metaphysics and ultimately theology.
 
abcaines said:
if they're teaching baptismal regeneration
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More accurately, they teach that baptism is the moment when the Father applies the blood of Jesus. It's much like saying "with this ring, I thee wed." It's not the ring that joins a man and woman, it's God. That's not baptismal regeneration.

They teach that baptism is required for salvation, much like some who say here that repentance is required, but deny that it's the act of repentance that saves. Both are equal and opposite errors in my view, but neither are as serious as the error of baptismal regeneration.
 
Ekklesian said:
Does anyone have any experience with The Church of Christ/The Disciples of Christ?
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There is one little within about a football field of our church. They run the gamut, theologically speaking, as a denomination. And as most have said here, they are usually strongly in favor of baptismal regeneration, though there are some famous Church of Christ folk that are not, like Max Lucado. And then there are the Robertsons of the duck Dynasty fame, who are notorious proponents of Church of Christ doctrine.

One of the most memorable exchanges I’ve ever seen for when was when a church of Christ member cussed my then pastor out and ran us off of their porch, just for merely attempting to present the gospel.

As far as the OP question about the college choice, if those were the only two choices, I would also opt for the Roman Catholic route.
 
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ALAYMAN said:
One of the most memorable exchanges I’ve ever seen for when was when a church of Christ member cast my then passed her out and ran us off of their porch, just for merely attempting to present the gospel.
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"Cast my then passed her out?"

Rephrase?
 
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