Hello all:
I just found out that the 1st ever Stone-Campbell Symposium will be happening at Northwest Christian College on March April 3 - March April 5. NWCC is in Eugene, Oregon, which is only about two hours from me.
The symposium features the editors of the Encyclopedia of the Stone Campbell Movement, Douglas A. Foster, Newell Williams and Paul Blowers. They will be lecturing on both the Encyclopedia and what we need to know about each stream of the Restoration Movement.
I plan to attend the Symposium and maybe if I have time I’ll blog on location, if anyone cares. 
-Clarke
My grandmother is in the hospital, she has congestive heart failure and is not doing well. Please pray that God will ease her pain and be with her.
-Clarke
Hello all:
Alan Rouse over at Christian Unity is working on a project of inventorying the doctrines of the Church of Christ. His plan is to get the inventory going so that we can then analyze those doctrines in light of the Command, Example, and Necessary Inference (CENI) hermeneutic and see what insights we can gain on CENI.
Alan has moved the inventory to the Restorationwiki so that everyone can add and edit doctrines. If you’d like to check it out or contribute, feel free to head over there. Registration is not required, but is encouraged. Some of you from the more conservative congregations (such as JeffB and Jason) might be a great help on such doctrines associated with non-institutional or one-cup congregations.
-Clarke
Hello all:
Most of you have probably noticed my impulse over on the right side of the page to try and catalog all significant websites related to the Restoration Movement, and specifically the Churches of Christ. I will be adding several more links shortly, and you’ll see why.
Lets explore a little known fellowship within the Churches of Christ.
AD70 doctrine congregations, which are fairly rare in our fellowship, are preterists. That is, they believe that all prophesy contained in the bible has already come to pass and has been fulfilled. This includes the Second Coming of Christ, the Resurrection, Judgement Day, etc. The AD70 doctrine teaches that these prophecies were fulfilled at the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
While I could only find two congregations online that espouse this eschatology, they provide a lot of material on their websites to read. Both congregations sponsor websites that are specifically about the AD70 Doctrine, which is also known as Covenant Eschatology or Fulfilled Eschatology in addition to Preterism.
I also found articles on AD70 on the Christian Courier website, which provide some explanation (albeit very negatively) about Preterist beliefs.
Some of the views of the AD70 group are in line with the amillenialism that Churches of Christ traditionally teach, but they are obviously much more extreme. In fact, when browsing through general Preterist websites not specifically related to the Church of Christ, I found that many of the writers and proponents of Preterist thought are current or former Church of Christ ministers. It seems to me that our amillenial viewpoint paves the way for many to embrace the preterist doctrines of the AD70 group.
Do any of you have any experience with AD70 congregations? What do you think about this odd doctrine?
-Clarke
The City of Jerusalem Burning during the Roman Invasion of 70 A.D.