In recent years studious brethren have wondered what the fall-out will be from the liberalism that is cur-rently sweeping the brotherhood.  In 1906 there was census recognition of the formal separation between churches of Christ and Christian Churches.  Some have wondered what form the next division between truth and error will take.
     That division appears to be in the making with the development of the new community church movement.  In the October 2000 issue of The Spiritual Sword Alan Highers surveys the options that are available to change agents as they manifest their dissatisfaction with the church.  He says, first, “They can leave as some did in ear-lier years.”  In 1966, with the publication of Voices Of Concern, these malcontents to sound doctrine had the dig-nity to leave that with which they took issue.  Second, “They could stay and work from within.”  This has been the modus operandi of the old Crossroads/Boston movement over the years.  Third, “…separate and form what is usually styled ‘a community church.’”  Highers writes, “Such bod-ies have been described as ‘loosely affiliated with the Church of Christ.’”  The founders and members of these churches generally maintain ties with churches of Christ but tend to conceal these connections from the community and from the target audience they are seeking to influence.”  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us (1 Jn. 2:19).