The plea of the churches of Christ is very simple. It is a desire to "go back to the Bible" and let it be the guide for all that we say and do.
Actually, this is a Biblical plea that has been true ever since the Old Testament era.
During the days of Jeremiah the prophet, six hundred years before Christ, we read, "Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls"
(Jeremiah 6:16).God has always desired that men follow His way in every generation of time -- from the beginning of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, to the present, and on until life on the earth will be no more when Jesus comes again.
All men today will be judged according to "the old paths" which is the New Testament. Jesus said, "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" (John 12:48; cf. Revelation 20:12).
Friend, are you ready?
Are you prepared to meet God?
Only when we lay aside the creeds, disciplines and tenets of denominationalism and go back to the New Testament can we be right with the Lord. We must accept God's "old paths" as our rule of faith and practice. Let us go "back to the Bible."