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The Independent Christian Church,
Churches of Christ (instrumental)
The Independent Christian Churches are a theologically
conservative, Protestant Christian fellowship of autonomous churches within the
"Restoration Movement." The fellowship has no denominational
organization, no central headquarters and no authority over the independent
local congregations. The movement claims to have returned to a New
Testament faith and practice. In worship, they use instrumental music -
unlike the Churches of Christ (non-instrumental). They emphasize the celebration
of the Lord's Supper, Communion or the Eucharist in other traditions. The
movement separated from the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in 1968 when
the Disciples formally organized into a denomination. The Independent
Christian Churches have
approximately 1,072,000 members with 5,678 churches in
the United States.
The Independent Christian Churches' participation in the
FACT project included a survey of 969 churches randomly chosen from a listing of
all Independent Christian Churches congregations in the United States. A total of 349
questionnaires
were returned for a 36.02% response rate. View
the version of the questionnaire used by the Independent Christian
Churches.
If you are interested in obtaining specific
information about the results of the Independent Christian Churches survey, please get in
touch with their official contact person Sam Stone at sstone@standardpub.com.
Several additional persons were involved in
collecting the Independent Christian Churches information. David Osborn
was the key researcher, Christopher DeWelt is the person charged with encouraging denominational congregations to
use this information, and Sam Stone is the media contact person for this
information.
Websites that FACT has
discovered that may be helpful in learning more about this fellowship of
churches are listed below. These sites are were not recommended nor are they
endorsed by the leaders listed above. Since this fellowship has no
denominational structure, no site can officially or unofficially
"represent" the doctrinal views or faith practices of a single church
or a fellowship of churches who may share a common heritage
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