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Date Posted: 19:16:03 08/26/11 Fri
Author: Lois
Subject: General Denominational (Dis)Information

http://www.cofchrist.org/news/GeneralInfo.asp#officials

Community of Christ
General Denominational Information

This is what they say:

MISSION STATEMENT

We proclaim Jesus Christ and promote communities of joy, hope, love, and peace.

This is what they also say:

In 2002 one of the reports given to the world conference of the Community of Christ was H-8 Interfaith Relations Committee Report.

(Community of Christ 2002 World Conference Bulletin pp. 75-78)

H-8 Interfaith Relations Committee Report

(H-8) "The most troublesome text for the Christian community regarding other religious traditions is to be found in Acts 4:12. This text makes exclusive claims to salvation through Jesus Christ and him alone. This text has tended to foster prejudice toward not only Jews but all other religious claims as well because of its exclusivity. This text is best understood within the context of the sermon preached by Peter in the company of John and others. It should not be universalized and become a framework for either missional or theological purposes."

http://www.cofchrist.org/peacecolloquy/2005/windland.asp

AUTHENTIC CHRISTIAN MISSION IN A MULTIFAITH WORLD

"Christianity's monopoly on salvation is over."

"Non-Christian traditions must be recognized for what they are – fully franchised systems of salvation with practitioners as decent and devoted as any other, with scholars as intelligent and gifted as any other, with members as whole and holy as any other. Any model of authentic Christian mission in a multifaith world must acknowledge that"

http://www.communityofchrist.ca/index.php/cem/cem-directory

Encounter World Religions
J.W. Windland

Here is that verse that so offends J.W. Windland and the rest of the members of the committee.

Speaking of Jesus Christ, Acts 4:12 says, "Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

This is what they say about their history:

HISTORY

The church was legally organized on April 6, 1830, in Fayette, New York. Following the assassination of founder Joseph Smith Jr. in 1844, the church split into multiple groups. Joseph Smith III succeeded his father and was ordained prophet-president of this denomination on April 6, 1860.

And then this is what they turn around and say in order to gain admittance into the National Council of Churches:

http://www.ncccusa.org/witnesses2010/ga-merc-report-community-of-christ.pdf

page 2

The Membership and Ecclesial Relations Committee (MERC) of the General Assembly of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and Church World Service recommends to the 2010 General Assembly that the membership application of the Community of Christ (COC) be approved. This recommendation is based on a careful review of written materials provided by the COC,

page 3

It is always important at the onset of any discussion of the spiritual roots of Community of Christ to note that its founder is not [Joseph Smith] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints (LDS), but his son, Joseph Smith III,
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How can they have two distinctly different histories? By their own logic Grant McMurray, who resigned suddenly as president, was the founder of the Community of Christ. That is when they changed their name from Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to Community of Christ. Maybe they should get their history straight for their website.

Submitted by Lois

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