The Lord's church at Wembley is dedicated to the restoration of New Testament Christianity, respecting both the authority and the silence of the Scriptures. We want to restore in our time the original New Testament church. And the only way to do that is to go back to the scriptures to see what the church was in its beginning, and then recover the essence of the original church.

In the latter part of the eighteenth century, men of different denominations studying independently of each other, in various parts of the world, began to ask:
1. Why not go back beyond denominationalism to the simplicity and purity of the first–century church?
2. Why not take the Bible alone and once again continue “steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine” (Acts 2:42)?
3. Why not plant the same seed (the Word of God, Luke 8:11) that the first–century Christians planted, and be Christians only, as they were?

They were pleading with everyone to throw off denominationalism, to throw away human creeds, and to follow only the Bible. They taught that nothing should be required of people as acts of faith except that which is evident in the Scriptures. They emphasized that going back to the Bible does not mean the establishment of another denomination, but rather a return to the original church. We are enthusiastic about this approach. With the Bible as our only guide, we seek to find what the original church was like and restore it exactly. We are saying that we do not have the right to ask for men's allegiance to a human organization, but only the right to call upon men to follow God's blueprint.

For this reason, we are not interested in man–made creeds, but simply in the New Testament pattern. We do not conceive of ourselves as being a denomination but simply as members of the church that Jesus established, the one for which he died. And that, incidentally, is why we wear his name.
The term church of Christ is not used as a denominational designation, but rather as a descriptive term indicating that the church belongs to Christ. We recognize our own personal shortcomings and weaknesses. That is all the more reason for wanting to follow carefully the all–sufficient and perfect plan God has for the church.

So, churches of Christ plead for religious unity based on the Bible. We believe that to subscribe to any creed other than the New Testament, to refuse to obey any New Testament command, or to follow any practice not sustained by the New Testament is to add to or take from the teachings of God. Both additions and subtractions are condemned in the Bible (Galatians 1:6–9; Revelation 22:18–19).