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The Restoration Movement
Early in the nineteenth century there was growing unrest among churches in America. An ever increasing number of congregations took the
belief that the followers of Christ should lay aside the traditions of man and go back to the Church described in the
New Testament.
Walter Scott, James O'Kelly, Barton W. Stone, Thomas and Alexander Campbell were among the brave
pioneers who advocated a discarding of all denominational names, sectarian creeds, and religious divisions.
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Almost simultaneously, yet without knowledge of one another, these men appealed to all sincere believers to be
"Christians only but not the only Christians." They aimed not to start another denomination, but to call people back to the
Church of the New Testament.
This today is still the plea of the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ -- to restore the name, organization,
worship, doctrine, spirit, and practice of the early church.
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