Members of the church of Christ today want to restore the original New Testament church. To do this, it is necessary to set aside creeds and doctrines created by people. We must go back beyond all the denominations that people have established, back to the pattern for the church left for us in the New Testament.
To be God’s true people, we must accept the Bible alone as the authority in all religious matters. Therefore, we should be able to give a “thus says the Lord” for everything we teach and practice. We need to “speak where the Bible speaks and remain silent where the Bible is silent.” If we teach the pure Word of God today, we are planting the same seed that was planted in the first century. When that seed was planted then, Christians and only Christians were produced and the church came into existence. The plea of members of the church of Christ today is for religious unity based upon the Word of God.