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- The Restoration Movement began on the American frontier around 1800, when Christians tried to end their divisions by leaving creeds and church names behind and going back to the New Testament.
- Barton Stone came away from the Cane Ridge revival of 1801 wanting the denominations to work together, and in 1804 he and his friends wrote a will for their own presbytery and let it die.
- In 1809 Thomas Campbell gave the movement its rule, “where the Scriptures speak, we speak; and where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.”
- The followers of Stone and the Campbells joined hands at Lexington, Kentucky, at the New Year of 1832.
- They split first over missionary societies and organs, and the census of 1906 listed the Churches of Christ separately.
- They split again over open membership and church structure, and some 3,000 independent congregations formally withdrew from the Disciples between 1967 and 1969.
- In June 2000 people from all three churches wrote a joint confession that says division in the body of Christ is sin.
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- Scripture is quoted from the King James Version: John 17:21; Acts 2:38; Acts 11:26; Acts 20:7; Ephesians 5:19.
- Barton W. Stone and others, The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery, 28 June 1804, with the Witnesses’ Address.
- Thomas Campbell, Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington, 1809.
- The Biography of Eld. Barton Warren Stone, Written by Himself, edited by John Rogers, 1847; and James R. Rogers, The Cane Ridge Meeting-House, 1910.
- Robert Richardson, Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, 1868.
- John Augustus Williams, Life of Elder John Smith, 1870.
- Jay F. Guin, “Backgrounds of the Restoration Movement: ‘Raccoon’ John Smith and the 1832 Unity Meeting”, One In Jesus, 2009, drawing on Leroy Garrett.
- A. J. L. Waskey, “Restoration Movement”, New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Rick Cherok, History of the Restoration Movement, Ozark Christian College, 2018; and “A Century Ago: The Conflict and Controversy That Created the North American Christian Convention”, Christian Standard, 3 November 2026.
- Jim Rowe, “An Overview of the Restoration Movement”, Word and Work, August 2023.
- Mark Roberts, “Learning from the History of the Instrumental Music Controversy Among Brethren”, La Vista Church of Christ, 2012, which prints the words of Campbell, Lard, Lipscomb, Anderson and Errett.
- Midway University, “The Melodeon”; “The Addition Of The Melodeon At Midway, Kentucky, 1860”; Kentucky Historical Society, Midway Christian Church marker.
- Douglas A. Foster, “1906 Census of Religious Bodies”, Christian Standard, 2006.
- De Encyclopedie van de Stone-Campbell Beweging, entries republished by the Disciples of Christ Historical Society: “Churches of Christ”, “Christian Churches/Churches of Christ” en “Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)”.
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), “Our identity”, “History of the Disciples”, The Design en “Communion and Baptism”.
- West Des Moines Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), “Who we are”.
- High School Road Church of Christ, Indianapolis, “Why we worship Acapella?”
- Walter D. Zorn, in Restoration Appreciation Week 2023, Great Lakes Christian College.
- Bobby Ross Jr., “165,000 fewer souls in the pews”, The Christian Chronicle, en “Church Research Council formed to renew Churches of Christ directory”.
- The Christian Post, “Disciples of Christ lost one-fifth of its membership from 2019-2022”.
- Ross B. Wissmann, The Christian ministry: case studies of preachers of the Churches of Christ in Bicol, Philippines, PhD thesis, University of St Andrews.
- The Stone-Campbell Dialogue, brochure with the Confession of Sin and Affirmation of Faith en list of sessions; D. Newell Williams, “How It All Began: The First Seven Years”, Leaven 23:2, 2015.
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