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A hysterically funny parody based on the soap opera, As the World Turns, about discipleship and dating in the ICC. Part 1.
Tracy Kreckman's <tkreckman@sympatico.ca> Star Trek parody -- the good ship Enterprise is absorbed by the ICC ship run by Locutus McKean. ;>
The irrepressible, and irreplaceable, Ovum <ovum@aol.com> posts a ten-point questionnaire which lets people determine just how sharp they are. ;>
Dave Anderson started this conversation on what Spock would have heard from his discipler and evangelist if he'd been in the ICC. :> Others followed up, for your edification and amusement.
Kim Krecek (Starr) reposts her short "history lesson" at intervals in the newsgroup. It is an excellent brief statement of the origins of the ICC and how it grew.
Mary Beth <mjaybird7@aol.com> posts about an experience with a suicidal friend while she was still a member of the ICC.
Mary Beth <mjaybird7@aol.com> talks about needing to get permission to visit her family while she was in the Campus Ministry group in the ICC.
Jacqueline <ASML@worldnet.att.net> tells about her weirdest experiences in a discipling group.
Michelle Campbell <michelle@reveal.org> tells about her trip to Los Angeles and visit to DPI Books and the Upside Down club.
Bryan Slatner <bslatner@bellsouth.net> tells about his visit to a San Francisco Church of Christ worship service in September 1996 with a couple of other former members.
San Francisco CofC: my impressions
Catherine Hampton <ariel@reveal.org>, who also went, tells of her impressions after nine years away from the Discipling Movement.
Ovum <ovum@aol.com>, a former Crossroads Movement person and regular participant in alt.religion.christian.boston-church, speculates about lost time and maturity while in the movement.
Re: ICC Retards Emotional & Intellectual Growth
Catherine Hampton's <ariel@reveal.org> follow-up to Ovum's post.
Bryan Slatner <bslatner@bellsouth.net> posts about his first few months after the ICC and learning to live with the consequences of having been a member.
Catherine Hampton <ariel@reveal.org> posts about how the discipling movement and ICC teach people not to think for themselves.
Ovum <ovum@aol.com>, a former Crossroads Movement person and regular participant in alt.religion.christian.boston-church, speculates about lost time and maturity while in the movement.
Re: ICC Retards Emotional & Intellectual Growth
Catherine Hampton's <ariel@reveal.org> follow-up to Ovum's post.
A post by Carol Giambalvo <mailto:carol2180@aol.com> quoting from Kip McKean's keynote address, Be Perfectly United, given at the 1987 Boston Church of Christ Women's Retreat.
A post by Catherine Hampton <ariel@reveal.org> on two Scriptures which discuss authority in the Christian Church.
christian?or/kiptian?
Another post's replies to Catherine's post with a story illustrating the leadership differences between the Bible's "Shepherd" and America's "Cowboys".
Despite the title, this is the response of a former Crossroads Movement person to the question, "Do you believe your church is guiding you to the *one church*?" In it, Catherine Hampton <ariel@reveal.org> discusses what she has come to believe about the Church since leaving the Discipling Movement nine years earlier.
Excerpts from Kip McKean's talk at the 1995 World Leadership Conference in Johannesburg, Preach The Word, with comments by Joanne Ruhland <djrtx@aol.com>, posted to alt.religion.christian.boston-church by Chris Lee <chclee@mit.edu>.
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