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The plan for the Austin’s Chapel church was, like all other churches of Christ, made “before the foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4). The original promise of the plan was given as a prophecy to Adam and Eve in the garden when God pledged to put “put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel” (Gen. 3:15). We believe that God proved the completion of this promise when Jesus was “crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men” and the Jews (Acts 2:23). Revelation 12 illustrates this “eneminess” and the fulfillment of the original promise as the dragon and the “man child” war against each other.
The foundation for the Austin’s Chapel branch of the promised church of Christ was not laid until August, 1872 when Benjamin Franklin Austin and his wife, Lucinda Scott Austin (Cindy), obeyed the call of the Gospel.
To read more on the history of Austin Chapel, click HERE.