Class Companion · Prologue

Overview: Our Wild Democracy

This is a class about a table — and about what a group of people on the American frontier were willing to tear down in order to keep anyone from standing in front of it.

(Sep 6)

The idea

The Lord's Supper is the age to come, arriving early. Nearly everything distinctive about the Churches of Christ follows from a refusal to let anything stand between people and that future.


Events

  • Cane Ridge Revival 1801

    A landmark revival gathering that shaped Barton W. Stone’s unity convictions and frontier worship practices.

Read aloud

The breaking of bread is not a festival for the few, but the continual feast of the Lord’s people.
Alexander Campbell

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