Getwell Church of Christ

📍1511, Getwell, Rd Memphis Tennessee, United States

AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Inherited from denomination

What Churches of Christ teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Affirms

Believer's BaptismSTRONG
Baptist confessions; Pentecostal fundamentals; Anabaptist tradition
Marriage as one man and one womanSTRONG
Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6; historic universal Christian teaching.
Permissibility of divorce and remarriagestandard
Matthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.

Denies

Apostolic Successionstandard
Congregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
Assumption of Marystandard
Universal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsSTRONG
Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
Immaculate ConceptionSTRONG
Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
Infant BaptismSTRONG
Baptist confessions (New Hampshire; BFM 2000 VII); Anabaptist / Schleitheim; Pentecostal fundamentals
Perpetual Virginity of Marystandard
Natural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
Real Presencestandard
Memorialist / Zwinglian view; typical Baptist and Free Church position
TransubstantiationSTRONG
Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Women in pastoral / ordained officeSTRONG
1 Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:34; historic apostolic practice.

Wrestles with

Pacifism vs. just-warweak
Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.

In their own words

Statements

about_us

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