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Thomas Wayne "Kip" McKean II (born May 31, 1954) is an American former minister of the International Churches of Christ and the founder of the International Christian Churches, also known as the "Portland/Sold-Out Discipling Movement"

Lexington Church of Christ

McKean moved to the Boston area in 1979 and began working in the Lexington Church of Christ. He asked them to "redefine their commitment to Christ," and introduced the use of discipling partners. The congregation grew rapidly, and was renamed the Boston Church of Christ.

The International Churches of Christ

In the mid-1980s, McKean became leader of both Boston and Crossroads Movements, eventually splitting from mainstream Churches of Christ, to become the International Church of Christ (ICOC).

The movement was first recognized as an independent religious group in 1992 when John Vaughn, a church growth specialist at Fuller Theological Seminary, listed them as a separate entity. Time magazine ran a full-page story on the movement in 1992 calling them "one of the world's fastest-growing and most innovative bands of Bible thumpers" that had grown into "a global empire of 103 congregations from California to Cairo with total Sunday attendance of 50,000", and which also raised concerns about authoritarian leadership, pressure placed on members, and whether the group should be considered a cult.

A formal break was made from the mainline Churches of Christ in 1993 when the movement organized under the name "International Churches of Christ." This new designation formalized a division that was already in existence between those involved with the Crossroads/Boston Movement and "mainline" Churches of Christ.

Resignation from the International Churches of Christ

Beginning in the late 1990s, McKean's moral authority as the leader of the movement came into question. Expectations for continued numerical growth and the pressure to sacrifice financially to support missionary efforts took its toll. Added to this was the loss of local leaders to new planting projects. In some areas, decreases in membership began to occur.

Author

McKean has written a short book entitled Go Make Disciples: The Dream. He has also written First Principles Study Series and Second Principles: Survey of the Old Testament.

See also

• Churches of Christ
• Restoration Movement

References

1. ^ Douglas Allen Foster and Anthony L. Dunnavant, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, Churches of Christ, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-8028-3898-7, ISBN 978-0-8028-3898-8, 854 pages, entry on International Churches of Christ
2. ^ Stanback, C. Foster. Into All Nations: A History of the International Churches of Christ. IPI, 2005
3. Ostling, Richard N (May 18, 1992). "Keepers of the Flock". Time.
4. Leroy Garrett, The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement, College Press, 2002, ISBN 0-89900-909-3, ISBN 978-0-89900-909-4, 573 pages
5. Wilson, John F. "The International Church of Christ: A Historical Overview." Leaven (Pepperdine University), 2010: 1-5
6. McKean, Madaline Evans, Debby Miller, Sheila Jones, Kim Walters, Kip (1997). Go Make Disciples: the Dream. Woburn, MA: Discipleship Publications International. ISBN 1577820460.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. Lewis, Hans Rollmann, Warren (October 2005). Restoring the First-century Church in the Twenty-first Century: Essays on the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 532.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. McKean, Kip (1996). Second Principles: Survey of the Old Testament. Woburn, MA: Discipleship Publications International. ISBN 9781577820000.

External links

• KipMcKean.org, Official Website of Kip McKean.

• American members of the Churches of Christ
• American religious leaders
• American Christian clergy
• Restoration Movement
• University of Florida alumni
• Ministers of the Churches of Christ
• 1954 births
• Living people
• People from Indianapolis