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Greater Refuge Church of Christ

📍370 Garden Street, Hartford, CT ✝apostolic
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AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.

Historical

Historical details

Founded1922
ArchitectureRomanesque Revival architecture
Heritage statusNational Register of Historic Places listed place
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
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

statement_of_faith
<!DOCTYPE html> OUR BELIEF | greater-refuge top of page Call Us: 860-527-5960 370 Garden Street Hartford, CT Service Times & Directions PENTECOST NEW HERE HISTORY OUR APOSTLE OUR BELIEF EVENTS GALLERY GIVING MINISTRIES SERVICES CONTACT More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. The Holy Bible , also known as the Scriptures, the Old Testament and New Testament, are the inspired written Word of God without error or exception in the original writings. The Holy Bible is the divine word of God and as such we hold it as the final authority for our Christian beliefs and lifestyle. God-
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Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue is an historic former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 370 Garden Street, Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States.
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beliefs
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