Disciples of Christ

plural noun

: a Protestant religious denomination founded in the United States in early 1800s that holds the Bible alone to be the rule of faith and practice, does not require its congregants to subscribe to a particular creed or statement of faith, usually baptizes by immersion, and has a congregational polity

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