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Disciples of Christ

noun

  1. a Christian denomination, founded in the U.S. by Alexander Campbell in the early part of the 19th century, that rejects all creeds, holds the Bible as a sufficient rule of faith and practice, administers baptism by immersion, celebrates the Lord's Supper every Sunday, and has a congregational polity.


Disciples of Christ

plural noun

  1. a Christian denomination founded in the US in 1809 by Thomas and Alexander Campbell
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

While a student at the Eclectic Institute, he traveled to area Disciples of Christ churches, where he was paid to give Sunday sermons.

Raised in a Churches of Christ congregation in suburban Virginia, she’s now a member of the Disciples of Christ denomination.

What’s unusual about UCP is that it gathers four denominations under one roof: Methodist, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ.

He earned a music scholarship to Transylvania University, a Disciples of Christ school in Lexington, Ky., and considered becoming a minister before he felt a more secular calling — to the theater.

The actor was born in 1937 in Louisville, Ky., and raised in Lexington, where he joined the Protestant Disciples of Christ Christian Church.

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