Comments on: Trinity River, Baseball, 2 Corinthians, Pappasito’s, Guacamole, Benedict

By: qb

qb — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:46:44 +0000

This is really exciting. From an Amarillo boy to the Abilene boyz: anytime you take down a Lubbock team, qb will rejoice. And if it’s by a factor of 5.67 or so, so much the better. (For those of you in Rio Linda: That’s 17/3, plus or minus a repeating decimal.)

Go AS!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:57:11 +0000

Thanks, QB. Here are the brackets for the tournament. (SG, we’d love to see you again this year!)

By: qb

qb — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:48:06 +0000

I found the URL where you can keep track of Mike’s team. They play tomorrow morning (Sunday 7/22) at 9am. qb heard a rumor that Mike will be preaching from the dugout via satellite uplink, but that’s just a rumor, so don’t repeat it.

http://eteamz.active.com/abilenesouth/news/index.cfm?cat=248680

By: Royce Ogle

Royce Ogle — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:48:04 +0000

I was saved in a Baptist church at the age of 15, baptised in a very chilly river on Easter Sunday morning right after sunrise. I have helped to plant churches, was educated in a Southern Baptist school, preached across North Carolina, had great friends in both independent and Southern Baptist churches, have been a member of at lest 5 Baptist churches, (about 40 years), before coming to the church of Christ over seven years ago, and not one time ever, have I said, nor have I ever heard a Baptist preacher claim the Baptist church is the “only true church” or that no one else was going to heaven.

The first time I heard that claim, it was in the church of Christ. (Not considering almost all of the cults who make the same claim)

Over the almost 50 years since I became a Christian I have had dear friendships and wonderful fellowship with believers from the Christian Missionary Alliance church, Assembly of God, Church of God, Freewill Baptists, Independent Baptists, Southern Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Bible churches, Community churches, Christian, Seventh Day Adventist, and church of Christ. Each of those people clearly was depending on Christ alone for salvation and we had warm unity based on our common faith.

Shame on anyone or on any church who thinks they have a monopoly on God.

Grace to you,
Royce Ogle

There is only one cure for ignorance, good teaching.

Grace to you,
Royce Ogle

By: SG

SG — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:21:52 +0000

Rumor has it they are playing in the state tournment in Waco this Sunday! Way to go Abilene South and Coach Cope!

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:45:29 +0000

I hope your lack of posting means your team is winning!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:10:36 +0000

Dear Mr. Cope or anyone who is a member of the church of Christ:

What would be the best way to respond to this question?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvLbTcSdz.lUheBPWSs9JDMjzKIX?qid=20070718145452AAl6eOj

I really would like to respond but I want to use my words carefully.

Thanks for any help!!!!!

By: Lee's Christian Blog

Lee's Christian Blog — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:21:39 +0000

Actually, there are several Christian-claiming groups that think they are the only ones in the “true” church. I know Baptists who think that, Pentecostals, Assembly of God members and I know there are others out there. Churches of Christ certainly have their flaws, but most of those flaws exist in other church groups as well.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:14:44 +0000

For many years I had difficulty telling someone about my church affiliation. Others had such easy identifiers, such as:

A Baptist, a Methodist, a Catholic, a Pentecostal, a Mormon, et al - but how do you say it for our fellowship? Church of Christer??
So I stopped trying to identify by church fellowship name and have begun using the individual congregation’s name rather than by organizational title: Highland, or Scott Memorial, or wherever I happen to be [Highland, at the moment]. They can usually guess what the organizational affiliation is.

By: SG

SG — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:30:53 +0000

And on the subject, the other day a woman I really respect asked me what church I “belong to”. I said “Crestview.” And like something caught my voice I just didn’t say “Church of Christ.” It was like something in me didn’t want to say it and I didn’t. I told her where the building is located. When she still looked blank, I finally said “Crestview Church of Christ” and wondered, some what fearfully, if she knew anything about the “churches of Christ.”
I love my church family at Crestview and am not at all ashamed of them, but my feelings about the name “c/Church of Christ” have really changed over the years. Admittedly I used to feel pride in saying I was a memeber of the Church of Christ because I had this notion that we did have “it” right. I never believed we were the only ones, but I still found security in the fact thet we were one of the ones. I don’t feel that way so much these days. I think there is one true church but the building and the body you worship with has nothing to do with whether you are a member of it. I don’t care what the sign out front of the building says, I don’t like it when any Christ loving group professes to be the only one group who will be in heaven or who has dibs on God’s grace, Christ’s blood and the Spirit’s guidance.

By: SG

SG — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:06:41 +0000

Welcome back to Waco!!!! Willtry to catch one of your games!

By: Mike (the one without a blog)

Mike (the one without a blog) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:26:50 +0000

Oh, and I should probably note that I was raised Roman Catholic, but have Church of Christ theological training… Just in the interest of transparency. It’s probably also significant, and telling, that I’m now a photographer with an incredible background in theology.

By: Mike (the one without a blog)

Mike (the one without a blog) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:22:17 +0000

Anyone that hasn’t made their way over to “Mike the Eyeguy”’s blog really needs to make it a point to get there. It’s one of the best responses I’ve seen to the Pope’s statement. Amen, brother!

By: charlie s.

charlie s. — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:09:34 +0000

Just to update, Mike’s team won game two last night, beating Ft. Worth, to win the sectional championship. Next stop is the state tournament in Waco. This will be the second year in a row that Mike, Chris and my son Hunter have gone to the state tournament. Quite an accomplishment.
(I realize you think this may be off subject, but Hunter’s mother was raised Catholic and is now CofC, at Highland. I guess that makes it O.K. to put this comment in in the middle of this discussion!)

By: clint

clint — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:22:44 +0000

The nut does not fall far from the tree.