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Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III says theBoston Church of Christ has received no officialpermission from Harvard to conduct ministry oncampus. But he plans no specific measures againstthe Church...
Churches of Christ dot the country; religiousexperts say they are the inheritors of the 19thcentury Campbellite Fundamentalist reform movementin America. The Church of Christ should not beconfused with the United Church of Christ, a muchmore centrist descendant of the New EnglandCongregationalist tradition...
...Boston Church of Christ is unique inits agressive prostelytizing efforts. The Churchbulletin publishes weekly service attendance,contribution and baptism figures, and sermonsoften stress the absolute importance of themembers being "fruitful," both in terms ofrecruitment or "discipling," and in personal cashcontributions...
...frustrated by the non-growth of otherchurches, the sense that they were all preachingthe same tired, mellowed out Christianity and thatthey had departed from the Scriptures," Shepherdsays. Shepherd went on to stress that evangelizingwas "a direct command of Christ," and that memberswho did not evangelize were by definition badChristian in the Church's view...
What sets the Boston Church of Christ apart isits rigidly authoritarian organization, in whichall members are responsible to superiors in theChurch for all facets of the conduct of theirdaily lives. All but the most junior members,further, are responsible for ensuring thespiritual progress of certain designated "youngerChristians". Members practise public confession oftheir sins to their peers and to their Churchsuperiors...