The International Churches of Christ

Movement·Founded 1979 CE·About 112,000 members in roughly 700 congregations across 147 or 148 nations, on the movement's own March 2024 reporting; its own site gives 107,000 in 767 congregations for a slightly different date. Membership peaked at about 135,000 in 2002 and fell after the 2003 crisis. All figures are self-reported and there is no independent audit.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) → The International Churches of Christ

Disciples Today — the ICOC's own siteThe recordMinistryWatch — reporting on the abuse litigation

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The International Churches of Christ Discussion

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who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →
K Kip McKean — thirty members in 1979, and a hundred thousand by 2002. He took a small Massachusetts congregation and built a worldwide movement in twenty years by planting churches from a mission team and requiring every member to be discipled. He stepped down as world missions evangelist in November 2002, left the ICOC, and in 2006 founded a separate body. Domain Discipling, church planting, the Boston movementStanding Founder, then removed; the ICOC and McKean now describe each other at a distance Meet them — context →

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

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