**The belief that baptism is an essential component of salvation has led opponents to accuse adherents of believing in "baptismal regeneration" and rejecting the views of '''sola gratia''' and '''sola fide'''; in return adherents believe that faith requires obedience or it is not truly faith at all.
**The phrase "for the remission of sins" does not have a uniform position within Churches of Christ. The majority view is that a baptismal candidate must understand that baptism will remit their sins; as such, any baptism (even by immersion) with any other belief (such as it being symbolic, as what Southern Baptists teach) is not valid and the candidate would have to be rebaptized in the Church of Christ. However, a significant minority view holds that, so long as the candidate had a desire to obey God, it is valid even if the candidate did not completely understand its significance.
*Rejection of the doctrine Strongly Armenian in their views on God and salvation, especially their rejection of eternal security**<ref>However, there is no consensus on how one could end up lost after being saved.</ref>
*Singing by a cappella means only (i.e., no musical instruments, though a pitch pipe may be used)
**A small but growing number of congregations have started using instrumental music in services (mainly large groups offering separate instrumental and a cappella services)
**The term "pastor" is rarely used among churches and the term "reverend" even less, due to lack of Biblical support for either name. Instead, terms used to describe the person giving the weekly sermon include "minister", "evangelist", or (if the person is also an elder) "preaching elder".
**Only adult men may be elders, deacons, or ministers; the group opposes women in these roles.
Churches of Christ support Biblical inerrancy. They are also dispensational, in that they accept the Old Testament as illustrative (and useful for Christians to study) but not authoritative (i.e. the church is guided solely by the New Testament).
They are generally amillenial in their views of the end times, and strongly oppose teachings on the Rapture.
They oppose Pentecostal and charismatic practices, believing that the gifts of tongues and healing disappeared when the final canon of Scripture was complete. They do not generally support the direct involvement of the Holy Spirit in Christian life (this comes from Campbell's view that people were convinced by words and ideas; Campbell was a strong debater and that practice continues in Churches of Christ today); however, the direct involvement view (which came from Stone) has gained some influence in recent years.
Churches of Christ hold to what is likely the hardest position on divorce and remarriage, believing adultery to be the only Biblical grounds. They even go so far as to advocate that if a person is divorced and remarried (outside of grounds of adultery) and then becomes a Christian, the person should divorce his/her current spouse and either remarry their former spouse or remain unmarried.
==Splits within the movement==