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Great Sermon! I agree with your message. At one time I was a member of the Churches of Christ, and also an Independent Christian Church. That was many years ago.
Today there is another group that broke away from the Church of Christ, and that is the International Churches of Christ. They seem to have a "salvation by discipleship" belief and practice. That is, they still strongly hold that baptism is essential to salvation, at the moment of baptism you're saved. But FIRST you have to be a disciple of Jesus Christ when you are baptized...though lost until baptism. They base this on the reading of the Great Commission in Matthew.
Maybe some have heard of this. Anyway, in the late 1980's the Boston COC was rebaptizing their members because of this new false doctrine. And that's when the mainline COC broke fellowship with them because "they changed the nature of baptism" to quote the mainline COC. And the Boston COC and related churches were retrained and eventually became the International COC. I know, sounds confusing. POINT IS they went beyond salvation by works which was bad enough. Instead, it's more like salvation by discipleship (yeah, still works but on steroids).
Keith Foskey is the pastor of Sovereign Grace Family Church in Jacksonville, Florida. He is a graduate of Jacksonville Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Jennifer have five children.