 Roughly 2 million members globally  Formed in the mid-1800’s, the Restoration Movement that arose out of the 2nd Great Awakening

 Church of Christ  Murray Road Church of Christ  Church of Christ East Side  About 30 across Kansas City  Pleasant Grove Church of Christ – with thanks to Pastor Lance Lorenz  Justification by grace  Unity on the Word through faith in Jesus Christ

 Scripture (OT and NT)  Scripture (OT and NT)

 Biblical Trinity  Biblical Trinity

 Incarnation  Incarnation  Both God and man  Both God and man

 Redemption  Redemption  Reconciliation  Reconciliation  Vicarious  Vicarious Satisfaction/Atonement Satisfaction/Atonement  Savior  Savior

 Fallen sinners in need of  Fallen sinners in need of redemption, of salvation redemption, of salvation  Original sin  Partial depravity  Bondage of the Will  Total depravity

 Ephesians 2:8-9  Decision Theology  Grace Alone  Five steps of conversion:  Faith Alone  Hear  Confess  Repent

 Believe  Immerse

 A means of grace  Signs of Grace  Commanded by Christ  Baptism  With a visible element  Lord’s Supper – emblem  Baptism  Immediate Grace and  Lord’s Supper Means of Grace  Absolution

 Points you to the means of grace:  Baptism  Lord’s Supper  Absolution  Not based on you or your works, but on God and what He has done for you.

 Points you to the means of  Acts and the question, grace: “What must I do to be  Baptism saved?”  Lord’s Supper  Hear the Word  Absolution  Believing  Not based on you or your  Confessing works, but on God and  Repenting what He has done for you.  Immersion  Holy Spirit bearing fruit in their life/life that is gradually becoming more like Christ  Church as the Body of Christ  Church as the baptized  Visible and invisible church Body of Christ  Marks of the Church –  Congregational autonomy Preaching and the  There is no denominational sacraments structure at all.  One divinely instituted  Pastoral vacancies are listed office – the Preaching Office on a couple of websites or the Office of the Keys online and available to any  Auxiliary offices are rooted Restoration pastor in the Office  Life after Death  Life after Death  Bodily Resurrection  Bodily Resurrection  Amillennial  Varying beliefs on millennialism

 Role of Women in the  Role of Women in the Church Church  Age of the earth  Age of the earth  Abortion  Abortion  In Vitro Fertilization  In Vitro Fertilization  Cohabitation  Cohabitation  Same-sex Marriage  Same-sex Marriage  Pr. Lorenz – not to mimic the world  Non-creedal  No joint confession of faith bonding churches together.