READERS' EXCHANGE

 

Since we have no hierarchy to make policy for the denomination, everyone should be made aware of unity meetings and invited to attend. In fact the quickest way to accomplish the goal would be to throw them open and find out what people really think. Our leadership has equated silence with assent. I believe that all is needed is for the rank and file member to find out what is going on and they will come out of bondage.-Adelle Bowen, Farmington, NM.

I was deeply touched and shed tears as I read about your visit and tribute to brother Tillet S. Teddlie and our beautiful heritage. Brother Teddlie may have given us much more by his songs that bind us together than many of so-called “great preachers” that have driven wedges to divide us. God bless this wonderful man. —Bernie Crum, Flat River, MO.

It is lamentable that the Sand Creek convention occurred. How abhorrent that such a superior attitude could be assumed that one who had truly become a Christian, regardless of the error into which he may later fall, “that we cannot and will not regard them as brethren” (as the Sand Creek edict declared). In our discussion with Baptists on apostasy we have argued that one continues always to be a child of God, though he may be a wayward one. If one is a child of God he is my brother, even though an “erring” one. As Carl Ketcherside says, “erring” brethren are the only kind I have! —Waymon D. Miller, Tulsa, OK.

I did not renew because my eyesight was bad, but now I can read again. I enjoy the magazine. Just for the record, I am Baptist. —Alma Creighton, Benton, AR.

While I am from a liberal Lutheran Church, I am not very liberal. A few years ago I was born again within my own denomination, though it was not through the regular programs. The Holy Spirit is now free to work in my life. I see that your people are also beginning to be more open to less prescribed programs. We could all learn much from each other if we could get out from under all the clouded domes of isolationism. —Richard S. Hovet, Bellevue, WA.