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2,300 attend 10th Anniversary Service in Tokyo, Japan - "the Mount Everest of mission work."

1st International Youth Ministries Conference "Revolution X" held in LA.

1988

World Sector Leaders chosen. Churches planted in Mexico City, Hong Kong and Cairo.

Release of Songs of the Kingdom 1st edition.

1979

On June 1, in Bob & Pat Gempels' living room, Kip McKean calls 30 "would-be disciples" to be totally committed to Christ. (The church later becomes known as the Boston Church of Christ.)

信念：

There is one true God who reveals himself to the world as The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19)

Jesus, the Son of God, is our one and only Lord and Savior, crucified for our sins and physically resurrected from the dead on the third day. (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; 1 Corinthians 15)

The Bible is the only written message of God inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error. (2 Timothy 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:19-21)

As with the first Christians, when a person repents and is baptized their sins are forgiven and the Holy Spirit works in their life. (Acts 2:36-41; Romans 8:5-11)

Only baptized disciples are members of Christ's church. (1 Corinthians 12:23, 24)

After baptism every new Christian needs to be taught or "discipled" by another Christian to obey all of Jesus' teachings (Matthew 28:20).

Every disciple must be committed to the vision of making disciples of all nations. (Mathew 28:18-20)

神学观念：

Core beliefs of the ICC and the mainline Churches of Christ are:

Both claim to believe in the Bible only as the sole authority for Christian doctrine and practice. The ICC, however, is considerably more willing to institute a doctrine or practice which does not appear in the Bible, on the grounds that the Bible does not specifically forbid it. In this they are more like the so-called "Independent Christian Churches", a somewhat less conservative offshoot of the same religious movement which also gave birth to the Churches of Christ.

"Probably some critics will no doubt say that we begin some practice and then go to Scripture in order to justify it. But the issue is whether or not the Bible does, in fact, justify it....

-- Gordon Ferguson　 Progressive Revelation　 Boston Bulletin, May 1988

Both accept the doctrines in the Nicene Creed on the nature of God, Christ, and the Trinity, although they reject the actual creed because it believes that all creeds are human teachings, not the Word of God. Unlike the mainline Churches of Christ, though, the ICC does not emphasize theological issues in its preaching or teaching; it has a utilitarian, results-oriented approach. The ICC tends to view serious theological study as a waste of time for most of its members.

"Any religious group who strongly emphasizes doctrinal accuracy runs a risk of losing perspective and losing God... An insistence that we have 'book, chapter, and verse' for anything new has virtually guaranteed that we will have nothing new, even if the old is a failure...."

-- Gordon Ferguson　Progressive Revelation　Boston Bulletin, May 1988

Both believe in one Church, and hold that denominations and sects are sinful and not of God. Unlike the mainline Churches of Christ, the ICC also believes that there should be only one church per city or town in order not to destroy the unity of the Church. Because of this, there are never two ICC-affiliated churches in a single city or town. Finally, the ICC sees itself as the "remnant" of God's people -- it believes that the ICC IS Christ's Church in "this generation." It no longer views the mainline Churches of Christ as true churches.

"If you are not in a discipling ministry, you need to move to one. Why do you resist the spirit and not move?... God is trying to forge a remnant.... There are divisions between us and the mainline church becase, as it says in 1 Corinthians 11, there has got to be divisions so they can show which ones of us has God's approval."

-- Kip McKean　Why Do You Resist the Spirit?　1987 World Missions Seminar, Boston

"This church [the Boston Church of Christ] is truly the Jerusalem of God's modern day movement."

-- Kip McKean　McKean Becomes Mission Evangelist　Boston Bulletin, June 26, 1988

Both believe that a person must be baptized by immersion for forgiveness of sins in order to be saved, and both practice baptism of adults only -- they do not baptize infants or children who have not reached "the age of understanding". The ICC has a unique teaching, though, that a person must be "baptized as a disciple" in order to be saved. This means that a person must have what the ICC views as the correct understanding of baptism at the time of baptism, must have fully repented of their sins, and must have committed to living as a disciple of Christ, prior to baptism, or the baptism is invalid and the person unsaved.

"For a long time in the Church of Christ... [people] were taught... the five point plan of salvation -- hear, believe, repent, confess, and be baptized.... I believe an essential element has not been emphasized in the area of repentance.... We need to get it straight, who is a candidate for baptism. It is the individual who is a disciple... There has become an innate doctrinal difference, but they [the mainline Churches of Christ] don't recognize it because it looks like a methodology."

-- Kip McKean　Perfectly United　 1987 Boston Women's Retreat

"I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a true Christian without being a disciple also. I taught that, to be baptized, you must first make the decision to be a disciple, and then be baptized.... I taught that their baptism was invalid because a retroactive understanding of repentance and baptism was not consistent with Scripture."

-- Kip McKean　Revolution through Restoration　Discipleship Magazine, April 1992

It believes that the Great Commission of Christ, as stated in Matthew 28:18-20, applies equally to all believers and mandates that each member engage in aggressive, active proselytizing ("evangelism") as their primary personal responsibility before God. They also believe that proselytizing non-members is the primary responsibility of the church as a whole.

Based also on Matthew 28:18-20, the ICC believes in a system of discipling, which means that every member is assigned another member as a mentor, to whom he/she reports, confesses sin, and which he/she is expected to obey and emulate.

-- Kip McKean　Discipleship Partners　 1988 Boston Leadership Conference

-- Teresa Ferguson　 Boston Bulletin, October 22, 1989

Both believe the Bible sets out the proper structure for the Church. In no other area, though, has the ICC moved farther from its roots in the mainline Churches of Christ. The mainline Churches of Christ are all independent bodies ruled either by a group of older men in the congregation (called "elders") or by the men of the congregation as a whole. The evangelist or minister is subordinate to the elders or the men of the congregation. The mainline Churches of Christ object vociferously to any earthly authority outside of or above the local congregation.

The ICC has a hierarchy frequently compared to that of the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, the ICC's hierarchy has far more control over its members in far more ways than the Catholic Church's heirarchy has had in history or at present, and ICC congregations have little autonomy or control over their own affairs. In ICC congregations, the evangelist leads. Elders are subordinate to him in fact, if not theory. Many large, old ICC congregations do not even have elders.

"The evangelist without elders in the congregation is the authority of God in the congregation. The only time he is not to be obeyed is when he calls you to disobey Scripture or disobey your conscience, and even if he calls on you to do something that disobeys your conscience, you still have an obligation to study it out and prayerfully change your opinion so that you can be totally unified."

-- Kip McKean　 Why Do You Resist the Spirit?　 1987 World Mission Seminar

Because the ICC believes in following the "Bible only", it denies the validity of human interpretations of the Bible. This does not prevent it from interpreting the Scriptures, of course. The ICC does not recognize that their interpretations of Scripture are interpretations, however, and insists that they are simply statements of what the Scriptures teach and which no honest person could disagree with.

Due to its insistence on "perfect unity", its rejection of interpretation and ambiguity, and its insistence that all must understand the Holy Scriptures in the same way it does, the ICC believes and teaches that only ICC members are saved. Most ICC members will, if pressed by an outsider, avoid stating this or soften it by insisting that there may be some people who came to the correct conclusions about the Bible outside of the ICC. In practice, though, the ICC believes they are the one and only true Church at present, and that it is highly unlikely, if even possible, for anyone to be saved elsewhere.

唯一观念：

What Makes the International Churches of Christ Unique?

There are several things that make us unique. First, we are committed to continually searching the Bible for truth about our lives and God's will for us as His church.

Second, we believe and expect every member of the church to be fully committed to living according to that truth. These convictions, as straightforward and obvious as they may seem, do not characterize the convictions of most of the religious world around us. To our knowledge, we are the only group that teaches the biblical principle of discipleship as a necessary part of the salvation process. We believe that an individual is not a candidate for baptism, and, therefore, salvation, unless he or she is ready to repent of sin and make the commitment to live each day of his or her life as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

Another unique quality of our churches is the diversity found in our fellowship. Sadly, it has been observed that Sunday morning is the most segregated time of the week for most Americans. Most churches only talk about diversity; we live it. We believe that any religious group that allows racial, social or economic segregation does not reflect the unity and love of God our Father and, therefore, cannot be the true church of Jesus Christ. God's true church is made up of all kinds of people, coming together as one common body to share one common love.

回应批评：

The Critics Say: The International Churches of Christ claim that one　must belong to their group to have any chance of going to heaven. How can this be, since they did not even begin until 1979?

WE SAY: Jesus did not mince any words when he talked about his church and following him. He said, “But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it” (Matt. 7:14), and “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who　

does the will of my Father who is in heaven” (Matt. 7:21), and “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). As the late, well-known author C. S. Lewis wrote, “the words of Jesus are so radical and extreme that Jesus was either a liar, lunatic or who he claimed to be.”

Jesus did not die to establish hundreds of churches, but only one church (i.e. Matt. 16:18; Eph. 1:22-23: 4:4; Col. 1:18), with a single congregation meeting in each city (i.e. 1 Cor 1:2; 1 Thess. 1:1; Rev. 2:1,8,12,18;3:1,7,14). When Christians walked into Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth or Rome, they did not have to ask for their kind of church. There was only one and everyone knew who the disciples were (Acts 11:26; 1 Cor. 1:2). Today that one original church has been broken into hundreds of disjointed pieces, contrary to Jesus' dying prayer (John 17: 20-21). Throughout history since the first century, brave men such as Luther, Calvin, Zwingley, Wesley and Campbell have attempted to return to the original church with varying degrees of success. As people would leave the narrow way, God would raise up a remnant to return to be the church Jesus taught about and built with his own blood.

Today there is a tremendous need to return to the basics of Christianity as mandated in the Bible. The vast majority of churches offer a watered-down, ineffective imitation of biblical Christianity that involves varying degrees of commitment. In his latest work, The Second Coming of the Church, George Barna, author of numerous books on trends in society and religion, compares the modern church to the Titanic. “It is large, elegant, and sinking fast.” He reports that the average person in a denomination who “accepts” Christ lasts only eight weeks in a church. Countless studies continue to show that church membership is not even growing as fast as the increase in population, that less than half of those who call themselves Christians even attend within any given week, that less than half of members' children will become members and that the influence of churches on society is ever decreasing. Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, writes “…mainline Protestant groups are ‘in terrible trouble,' having lost 25% of their membership in the last 25 years.” In 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention board found that fewer than half of the people on the Southern Baptist rolls are in any way active. A study conducted by Christianity Today, an evangelical Christian periodical, revealed that only 1% of its readership had recently shared the gospel with another person.