Attitude check: II Timothy 2:15 – We must accurately handle the word of God!

Didn’t Alexander Campbell start the church of Christ back in the 1800s? (continued)

• Acts 24:5, 14

• Alexander Campbell was certainly not the founder or restorer of Christ’s church.

• Jesus Christ is the founder of the one and only church!

  • Matthew 16:18; Acts 20:28; Colossians 1:18 – The church belongs to Christ – not Alexander Campbell. Campbell didn’t restore the church; he restored the thinking of himself and those he reached. The church hadn’t gone anywhere!

  • I Thessalonians 5:21-22; II Peter 3:17-18 – Our job as Christians is to examine everything and cling to what Jesus has revealed as truth.

  • Worshiping according to the instructions in the New Testament was not an idea original to Alexander Campbell. Local churches were worshiping this way before Alexander Campbell was around.

Isn’t baptism an outward sign of an inward grace?

• Notice what scripture says …

  • Mark 16:16

  • Acts 2:38 – Compare translation of Greek word for “for” in Matthew 26:28