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First Church of Christ

📍935 East Main Street, Logan, OH ✝church_of_christ
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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.

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

about_us
<!DOCTYPE html> First Christ Non-Denominational Ministry, Practicing Christianity | About Us Menu Home About Us Tenets Our Core Values Our Foundation Services Seek Guidance Lineage Genealogy COVID-19 Our Statement First Christ Christian Ministry “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” What is the First Christ Non-Denominational Ministry? The First Christ Non-Denominational Ministry practices Christianity but is a strictly a non-denominational ministry, where we accep
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distinctives
<!DOCTYPE html> First Christ Non-Denominational Ministry, Practicing Christianity | Foundational Values Menu Home About Us Tenets Our Core Values Our Foundation Services Seek Guidance Lineage Genealogy COVID-19 Our Statement Values Our Foundational Values Many of the core values of Christianity are reflected in the First Christ Ministerial practice, and is again reinterpreted based on the individual’s studies and guidance from God. A brief outline of core values is provided below via scripture. Generosity “The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food wit
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