How to Live

The Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

Denomination·Founded 1927 CE·No membership roll exists and none can, since there is no body to keep one. The Christian Standard directory listed about 5,200 congregations at its last compilation, down from nearly 6,800 six years earlier, and a new count was under way as of late 2024. Estimates of adherents commonly run above a million and are not from an audited source.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

the ethic — what it asks of a life

Direct support — the congregation sends the missionary itself. Rather than fund a board that appoints, a congregation supports a named missionary family directly and receives their letters. It is the practice that most clearly expresses the refusal of agencies, and it makes the movement's overseas work hard to count. Go deeper — context →