READERS' EXCHANGE

 

My thanks to the anonymous person who gave us our first subscription. Please send your fine magazine to the other addresses enclosed. Your articles always challenge my thinking and I usually agree with them. In the November issue I especially enjoyed Mr. Ketcherside’s article. When I first started to read it, I was saying “but. . .” so much that I sounded like a lawnmower, but I finally got the point. One thing that I think confuses us is that the epistles do have a very high doctrinal content. --- the Koones’, Portland, Or.

(It is refreshing to find this kind of open mind among our new readers, and we find it often. And it comes from those who have been sent the paper by someone else. They in turn send it to others. We hope this will encourage you to send this paper to more of your friends. --- Ed.)

After 12 years my brethren in the Church of Christ have asked me to share with them. Praise the Lord! This is proof that the Holy Spirit is alive and well today and not contained within the pages of the Book. - Bruce Heffner, Grand Junction, Co.

When my husband and I became increasingly discouraged with the Church of Christ, a wonderful man sent us your publication. It is a monthly encouragement to “hang in there.” We read each issue cover to cover. You and Mr. Ketcherside help preserve my sense of humor. When you criticize something it is always cushioned with love for the people involved. That is why you are close to my heart. --- Elaine Howard, Des Moines, Io.

The Lord has blessed Everett and me this past year in so many ways --- in work to do, in health to do it, but most of all with a growing sense of His presence which makes everything meaningful. --- Helen Champney, Albuquerque, NM

The most refreshing and challenging day of the month is the day on which the Restoration Review arrives. Your articles are not always “happy” ones but are consistently beneficial. Though I happen to be a wearer of the label Christian Church (conservative), I believe your articles speak to the needs among us also. While there are areas of thought where we might not “walk together,” we are at least within talking and sharing distance. Praise the Lord for that common tie in Jesus. --- Alvan Tiffin, Veneta, Or.

I’m a member of a Church of Christ, non-instrument (a right-wing as you would call it, of the Guardian variety). Having attended Florida College, names like Garrett and Ketcherside were taboo. I had a fairly negative picture of you both, having read only the papers within our party. How surprised I was to find you writing about things I held as deep dark secrets that I dare not express to anyone else. I now read the Bible as if it were for the first time, for no other desire than to find truth, not to prove a predetermined conclusion. --- Mark Nitz, Cincinnati, Oh.