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I
am enclosing a list of subs to
Restoration
Review,
which
I have done every year for 25 years. I continually appreciate your
work and oppose evil division and maintain the unity of the spirit.
—Frank
Poynor, Portales, NM.
(This
is something most all of our readers can do, share this journal with
others. We keep our club rate low for this reason. In clubs of four
or more it is only $3.00 per name. Send the names to us; we do the
mailing. —Ed.)
I
worry about
Restoration
Review
during
the next decade and beyond. In my reading I came across the idea
that a journal should die with its editor. What do you think? The
journal has been a source of enlightenment and balance for me
throughout the years and I would hate to see it altered
significantly from this course. —Michael
Wison, West Memphis, AR
(As
to whether a journal should die with its editor would depend on what
kind of journal it is. If it is a house job or a party medium it
might well be carried on by others. If it is the extension of one
person, it might well die with its editor since it would not likely
survive anyway. It is very easy for journals to die these days even
when their editors do not. As for us, we take the months one by one,
with no plans for folding our tent. The Lord will lead. —Ed.)
Ironically
both
Restoration
Review
and
The
Spiritual Sword,
which
started when I was “converted” from “conservative”
Christian Church to set me straight by “sound doctrine,”
come to me. I’m careful not to create an earthquake by putting
them together. —California.
(That
this brother refers to his conversion from Christian Church to Church
of Christ with quotation marks, indicating that it was not really a
conversion, is revealing. When some Churches of Christ sponsored a
mission to convert “denominational preachers,” which was
directed largely to Christian Churches, this brother being one of the
“converts,” this journal opposed it as disgustingly
sectarian, and I personally appeared before said organization at one
of its annual meetings and urged that it close shop. I wrote the
elders who sponsored it, urging them to do something constructive.
That the mission has closed down and its promoters are now sponsoring
unity summits with the Christian Church are signs that better days
are here. As for
Spiritual
Sword
and
Restoration
Review
coming
in the same mail, the reader will notice that the former refers to my
views almost as much as the latter, especially the current issue. But
I am better represented in the latter! —Ed.)
I
admire you for trying to work for change from within the Church of
Christ. I couldn’t do that. I had to leave. Not only for
myself but because I could not put my children through what I had
been through in the Church of Christ. I am still very angry with the
Church of Christ and see it as the single most destructive influence
in my life and in the life of my family of origin. At the same time
it has given me something to push against, and in that sense it has
been the source of growth. —Name/address
withheld (now a Presbyterian)
(What an indictment! Alas for the price we pay for our legalism! Oppression instead of blessings! The only good news here is that things are improving, so much that many (a majority?) in Churches of Christ would readily concede that if one is a Christian in the Church of Christ she does not cease being one if she goes to the Presbyterians. And when for that reason perhaps a better Christian. —Ed.)
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