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

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Community

who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
Bible colleges instead of seminaries. Cincinnati, Johnson, Ozark, Lincoln, Milligan: an entire network of undergraduate ministry colleges built from the 1920s onward, because the existing seminaries were held to be the source of the problem. They remain the movement's spine and its main instrument of continuity. Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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