Churches Of Christ

The Christian year was among the practices that the Restoration movement from the Churches of Christ repudiated due to lack of specific New Testament warrant. Today, most members of the Churches of Christ are unfamiliar with it. Recently, however, there has been movement toward partial observance of the year, both for evangelistic purposes and for renewal in the church. Churches of Christ are largely ignorant of the Christian year, and therefore do not make extensive use of it. Historically, churches from the American Restoration Movement have adhered to a nondenominational, free-church tradition that has endeavored to distinguish itself from many of the practices of denominational churches. One of the slogans popularized in the emergence of the Restoration Movement in the early nineteenth century was: "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where they are silent, we are silent. " Since the New Testament gives no examples or commands to follow a Christian year, the churches growing ou…