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With regard to sinners, Jesus’ policy was association rather than separation.  But then what do we make of a passage like 2 Corinthians 6:14ff., “What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?  Come out from them, and be separate”? Take a stab at it!  As always, it comes down to historical context, to what the circumstances are that drew forth this text.  In this case, it comes down to a small and spiritually fragile community of faith in the notoriously decadent city of Corinth, where  prevalent religious practice included having sex with any of the hundreds of sacred prostitutes that serviced the cult of Aphrodite.  This city was so bad that its name had become a byword for depravity; to “corinthianize” was to engage in shameless immorality, and all in the name of religion.  So Paul is saying that it might not be wise to take as your closest business partners or your most intimate friends, the ones whom you most trust and confide in, those who think and act this way, and surely Paul is right.

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Principles that shape our church family

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God’s Calling

We believe in God’s Calling.
We have learned from Scripture that God calls people not to a status but to a task. Concerns over status have for too long divided us and made us fearful. Instead, God gives us the task of telling everyone the amazing story of God’s love for us as embodied in Jesus of Nazareth.

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(Matthew 28:18-20; Ephesians; Amos, esp. 3:1-2; 5:18-6:7; 9:7)

The Stamford Church of Christ is a multi-racial, gender-inclusive Church of Christ. We honor as our spiritual heritage those attempts that began in America early in the 19th century to restore the life and spirit of Christianity as envisioned by Jesus and his apostles. So we are a community of believers - disciples of Jesus - who have confessed their faith in him and have been baptized into him. And we take seriously His teachings and their implications for the world in which we live.

From their beginnings, Churches of Christ have been "locally owned and operated". We have no denominational organization or headquarters. So there are things we do that other Churches of Christ may not, and things that other Churches of Christ may do that we do not. As the result of much study of scripture, for instance, we do not restrict roles or assign privilege or status on the basis of birth. We believe that God judges all people everywhere not by the categories of their physical births but by the maturity of their spiritual births.