 DO CHURCHES OF CHRIST ACCEPT PRE-MILLENNIALISM?
Dear Tralon:
As to your question about Churches of Christ accepting premillennialism, there is a sprinkling of congregations that hold the premillennial view. That view of the future was espoused by Brother Robert H. Boll in the early years of last century. He and his converts promoted it vigorously.
As it was studied and discussed the vast majority of our preachers concluded it was a mistaken view and rejected it. The view of end-things held by most preachers of Churches of Christ is described as "a-millennialism," which means "no thousand year reign of Christ on the earth." Our reason for so believing it that the various millennial views are full of contradictions and are arrived at by misapplication of prophetic verses. A more sensible understanding is that the prophecies have either been fulfilled in ancient times or are figurative descriptions of things to come.
Remember that each congregation of the Church of Christ is self-governing and we have no earthly president to tell us what we must believe. Hence there will be some variation of thinking about difficult subjects.
John Waddey |
