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Your article on leaving the Church of Christ interested me, for several years ago when I considered leaving a preacher of the non-Sunday School persuasion cautioned me about leaving my heritage, that God had placed me where he wanted me. When I explained that my Church of Christ heritage was the Sunday School variety, he was hard pressed to continue his argument. While insisting that I should not betray my heritage, he did not want me to return to my original group! My heritage is the Lord Jesus Christ in whom I am planted, and to betray that heritage is to turn my back on Him. To tie myself to a man-made institution is a foreign to my thinking as leaving the Church of Christ is to its various party adherents. - Wendell Huddleston, 4613 35th, Lubbock 79414.

The hinge of the issue of exclusivism is whether we have brothers and sisters within the scope of the denominations. Of course Alexander Campbell believed that we do, but he would be a heretic among us today. This is what put the first serious crack in the Church of Christ theology to which I faithfully adhered. It takes a Samson to shake the foundations. If there are indeed other Christians out there, then there are a lot of things we need to rethink, most of all our attitudes. - Daniel D. New, 730 Mercury Dr., Duncanville, TX 76137.