The New Testament commands, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” (I Pet. 3:15). Peter says further, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God... that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ...” (I Pet. 4:11). Brethren in the churches of Christ strive to follow closely these scriptural principles and commands, both in what we speak and do (Col. 3:16-17).

God’s law, from the beginning, is that all seed will produce after its kind. In Genesis 1:11, God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.” This principal of self propigation was applied spiritually by Jesus when he told the parable of the sower in Luke 8. In verse 11 He declared, “The seed is the word of God.” We believe the “seed,” the Gospel, that was planted in the first century and made Christians, members of the church of Christ, will also produce the same result today where ever it is planted or faithfully spoken (Gen. 1; Lk. 8:11).

The church of Christ was founded by Christ upon the confession “rock” that He was “the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:18). All must make the same confession before entering or being baptized into Christ today (Rom. 10:9-10; 6:3-4). Jesus Christ is the only head (Eph. 1:22-23). We wear no name but Christ’s (I Pet. 4:16). We have no creed (ie. system of belief) but the New Testament (II Tim. 3:16-17). We plead for unity of all believers and therefore must stand against division as being sin (Jn. 17:20-21; I Cor. 11:10; Eph. 4:4). We worship sincerely in accordance with the author:ity of the Bible (Jn. 4:24), realizing that worship would be vain if we added things not commanded or used in the early church of Christ.