CHURCH OF CHRIST

I grew up Church of Christ. There were very few other churches that I ever attended, so I didn't know much about any of them. Someone invited me to MetroChurch, which was a non-denomination church, my senior year in college. I had never experienced a worship service as I did that first time. I definitely had an encounter with God that I had never experienced. The instruments never bothered me, but the clapping.....now that scared me and took some getting used to. I have come a long way with learning and accepting grace, but still have to work on it.

Some of the things that I remember about being Church of Christ were:
No instruments used during the worship service...we sang acapella (John 4:24) Baptism was part of salvation. You had to be baptized to be saved.
You could lose your salvation so there was a lot of repentance.
We participated in communion every week, but you could only participate if you had been baptized (saved) in the Church of Christ.
The service was an hour long...if there were 2 minutes left before the hour was over then the last prayer was 2 minutes. If there was 1 minute, then the prayer was 1 minute.
We did not have children church, so all ages were in the service. We did have a cry room that you could go to if your child was crying.
They believe in the Old Testament and teach the main stories in Sunday School, but do not follow it because it is under the law.

I'm sure there were more, but those are the ones that I remember the most.

Last week, there was a huge controversy about Quail Springs Church of Christ using instruments in a worship service. My first thoughts were they don't use instruments because they are to worship in spirit and truth. When asked about the instruments referred to in Psalms and old testament, the reply will be they were under the law. On the other hand, they don't preach grace, so they still live under the law because you can lose your salvation.