OUR READERS SPEAK

Your editorial is always good, especially the one about Jesus helping us to quit smoking. Indeed He does!

When the children were small I began smoking and my system craved something, and I enjoyed them. As I grew as a Christian and knowing we should present our selves to Christ as a living sacrifice, smoking worried me very much.

So with Christ’s help I quit, six years ago or so. It wasn’t easy. I’ll the evening instead of sitting and watching TV I would read the Bible. During the morning hours I would keep the radio tuned in to some inspiring messages of some Baptist ministers. And I prayed.

With Christ it was possible. I still crave the cigarette, and sometimes I dream of them. But by the grace of God I will never take another—a sister in Illinois

I was reared in the non-class segment of our brotherhood. But I am losing all interest in trying to promote any particular brand of church-ism. I do want very much to preach Christ and to stress the importance of our oneness in Him.—Mississippi

I have been reading Restoration Review for almost a year and I feel a little guilty that I enjoy it so much, so you know which party of the church I grew up in. I do thank you, as well as some others, whose writings have, I pray, opened my narrow mind till I’ can ‘See Christ a little clearer.—California

Many thanks for Restoration Review. Perhaps I can say more sometime when there is a little more freedom. I am still dependent on the above letterhead for a living and in such cases one has to be careful.—Georgia

Keep encouraging us to be like—Jesus.—New York

I am seriously thinking of separating myself from the Restoration Movement rather than be a stumbling block to those who are convinced that the Holy Spirit has been captured between the pages of a black-bound book and has no power to work today. Thank you for being someone who is not afraid to recognize an “unorthodox” brother.—Kentucky

I have read your Review for years but always read the much fingered copy in the library at Abilene Christian College, but now that I am no longer a member among the elect and select I have been missing your provocative issues.

Let me commend you in your attempts to continue a genuine interest in the Restoration principle. I hope that from the breach that is no doubt in the offing something of lasting good will come for some of us who can hardly throw off some of the teachings which still have validity for us.—Texas

I am thankful that you and brother Ketcherside finally met Christ on a “Damascus road” and were converted to Him. I am thankful that both of you have elected to remain in the Church of Christ rather than defect. As free men in the universal body of Christ you are rendering Him and His followers a service long overdue.—Indiana

We are old time members of the church, but have been looking over the wall at some amazing things of the Lord. We read, as you and that precious Ouida seem to be doing, and have come to know so much that had been unknown for too long.—California

 

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