READERS' EXCHANGE

 

The people of the faction in which I was raised will discuss and listen somewhat in the lobby, but once the assembly is called to order this friendliness disappears, and I become a knot in the pew. You know so well about this sort of thing. - Jim Albert, Box 811, Corcoran, Ca. 93212.

You will never know the joy I felt as I read my first Restoration Review. How I came by it I don’t know. But to learn that there are others of like faith thrilled me with new joy and hope and courage to continue with Christ. I must confess that I was feeling mighty alone. Kinda like Elijah. My future is uncertain. My reputation as a “sound preacher” has been seriously called in question. I pray the trial of my faith will draw me closer to him who died for me. - Name Withheld, California.

The Church of Christ: Yesterday and Today is a beautiful volume and I’ve re-read most of the articles. Thank you very much. —John Barnhill, Gatesville, Texas

(This book, a compilation of this journal for 1973-74, is now available to the public at 4.95.)

I was pleased to be introduced to some of your material in the Restoration Review. I remember you from many years ago. I called you a legalist then without realizing how much a legalist I was. Apparently we have both gotten wiser. - Joe Black, Harlan Park Bible Church, Box 1226, Conway, Ar. 72032.

(The issues that made me a “legalist” a generation ago would still make me one, I presume, for my position remains the same. But something has happened along the way, though I would not describe it as wisdom. Something has surely happened to Joe Black, now minister of a Bible church. Whoever heard of a “sound” Church of Christ calling itself a “Bible Church”? Every faithful soul knows that we are not a Bible church! - Ed.)