Statement I of X · Church of Christ Fundamentals
The Head of the Church
I acknowledge Jesus as the only head of the church.
Every statement on this site hangs underneath this one. Where Scripture names a head of the church, it names Jesus Christ — not a pope, a council, a denomination, or a founder.
This page gathers the essays that lay out the case: the primary passages that name Christ as head, the secondary evidence of how the earliest congregations were actually governed, and honest answers to the objections.