The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Denomination·Founded 1832 CE·About 278,000 total members in 2022, in the United States and Canada, down from just under 2 million at the 1958 peak. The 2024 yearbook listed 2,887 affiliated congregations, of which 2,032 reported statistics or gave to outreach. The denomination publishes its own decline figures, which is not universal.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)ArchiveDisciples of Christ Historical Society

Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Discussion

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who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
B 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. Domain Christian unity, revival, the refusal of party namesStanding The Disciples claim the Stone half of the inheritance more warmly than the Campbell half Meet them — context →

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

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