20/20 Investigates Cases of International Churches of Christ. (atheist, Christianity, Christians)
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ABC's 20/20 "Believe It Or Else" - Investigates Cases of International Churches of Christ.
In this video you can see a Documentary Television Program about the history and operation of the ICOC. Includes Interview with Al Baird. This report made at October 15, 1993
In the mid eighties, I was involved with a person who, along with her parents, were avid church of Christ people. She was attending school at College Station TX, and her father insisted that she attend a church called A&M Church ofChrist. I went along with her a few times, when I was visiting for the weekend, but because I was transitioning out of traditional Christianity into New Age religions. Needless to say this did not make me welcome at this place, but I did receive a lot of pressure as an "outsider" to "join our church"
When I mentioned that I lived out of town, they suggested that I consider moving, as living far away was not an acceptable excuse. They also told me that they do not allow their members to be involved in any new age happenings, and I wondered how they enforced this, although as an outsider, I got nothing more than pressure to join, no answers...
I since learned that the ICOC has a large contingency in College Station Texas, and I wonder if this organization was not a branch of the ICOC all along. Of course, they will not answer any questions from me to this day, as I am not only an outsider, but an atheist as well. I did observe a cultic devotion/isolation of the members from society, and overbearing pressure, above what fundy Christians usually already exhibit, in dealing with religion.
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