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Barton Stone — the revivalist who would not keep a title.
A Presbyterian minister who was ordained only after telling the presbytery he accepted the Westminster Confession as far as he saw it consistent with the word of God. He dissolved his own presbytery in 1804, freed the people he had inherited as slaves, and spent forty years arguing that party names are the disease.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
The only test is the good confession.
Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God? That question and an affirmative answer is the entire doctrinal requirement for membership. There is no creed to subscribe and no examination, and there never has been.
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Silence leaves liberty.
The same rule that produced the a cappella Churches of Christ produced its mirror image here: if the New Testament does not forbid the organ, the missionary society or the denomination, they are matters of expedience. The two readings of silence are the whole difference between the two bodies.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
A church whose unity is the point, and whose doctrine is deliberately not policed
After death
Resurrection; the denomination does not legislate on the details and mostly does not preach them