In fairness, note at the bottom of the article that no claim is made that the list in the directory is God’s list of faithful churches. However, it’s outrageous to think of including a list of Churches of Christ without Richland Hills. They still think they’re part of our tribe! They didn’t leave. They just decided to have some a cappella music and some instrumental. The whole autonomous congregation thing, you know.

This would come as a shock to the early leaders of the American Restoration Movement for whom unity was based on a common confession of Christ.

Last night at Highland I heard Doug Foster talk about 1809 (the year of Thomas Campbell’s famous “Declaration and Address”), 1909 (right after a formal split in the movement), and unity plans for 2009.

I look forward to participating in the Great Communion. on October 4.

Here’s a picture from the Great Communion day of 1909: