RESPONSE FROM READERS

We want to thank you for your article on “Paul’s Plea for Unity”. If we had a few more writers and speakers and thinkers like you, we “Campbellites” would still be one body in Christ. Every “liberal” and every “fundamentalist” preacher in our divided brotherhood ought to be on your subscription list! — California

The material is consistently stimulating. Even when I cannot fully accord with the sentiments expressed, I feel that my being provoked to deeper thought is general justification for the reading. As a college student, I feel that you are probing areas that too long have been glossed over with shallow thinking and glib answers. — Alabama

I wonder what ten more years will do for you and Carl Ketcherside and the Churches of Christ. — Florida (not a Church of Christ member)

We appreciate your efforts in providing us with this stimulating publication. I personally am most grateful for every effort being put forth to aid us in understanding our freedom in Christ. May He graciously bless your work. — Pennsylvania

There are many at . . . . who are anxious to see your good work progress and they are praying constantly that great blessings shall be yours. — Student, a Church of Christ college

I like Bob Meyers’ short miscellaneous articles and comments. Tell him to keep them coming. — California

I am sending a check to help in the effort toward unity and peace. My prayers are for you. — Indiana

I look forward to my copy with eager anticipation each month. Thank you for making it possible. — Georgia

You seem to use capitalized “Church of Christ” as if you are naming it and setting it apart as a sect or denomination. If this is true, who all is included in this? The entire church? Or just those who hold to denominational or sectarian ideas? — Texas

(If this sister prefers that I play my tune in high and low C’s, I suppose it would go this way: we should hope that many in the Church of Christ are in the church of Christ, while surely there are many not members of the Church of Christ who are a part of the church of Christ. Or, to put it another way, I would refer to the Church of Christ very much as she would the Church of God. Yes, I would consider them both denominational terminology, which in itself is not necessarily bad. — Ed.)

I, too, feel certain that Jesus the Christ is anxious for his followers in the Church of Christ to search and grow together. And yet I, too, am sympathetic to any Ralph Grahams who feel forced to leave. Perhaps in his case we should feel fortunate that we did not crucify Christ for him completely. A preacher in the Church of Christ is indeed in a world of limited mental and spiritual mobility. — Oklahoma

Much that I read in the Restoration Review has encouraged me to believe that you are an instrument in the hands of God in uniting true believers, or more accurately, in leading true believers to recognize and manifest the unity of the Spirit. — Kentucky

I always relish your Review and look forward to getting it in the mail. — Dallas

(We appreciate these words of encouragement more than words can say. We solicit your prayers and support, and we welcome your criticisms. Feel free to send us your candid reactions. Every letter is carefully read, usually more than once. It would be a thrill to many of you if I could pass along statements from brethren in high places, for you would then be convinced that important things are happening, but these must remain “classified”. It is enough to say that as men come close! to Christ they come closer to each other, and together they move away from partyism. Blessed freedom! — Editor)