“Come Forth, My People”—No. 10

Visits: 19[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Some good brethren have become aware that their congregation, though once strong for the Truth, now practices the errors it once opposed and vice versa. However, brethren sometimes offer the following…

Who’s Murdering Creativity?

Visits: 23[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3  page.] The editor of one of the newer brotherhood journals wrote the following terse paragraph in his editorial some time ago: Creativity, murdered by dogmatism, leaves behind a burned out, disillusioned…

Digression and Division

Visits: 28[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Division in all the churches of Christ cannot come at once. There is no human head to order such simultaneous action. More than a century ago, those who were determined…

Notes on Musical Instruments in Worship

Visits: 32[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] The most often asked question about our belief and practice concerns this issue. This subject relates to our acceptable worship of God. Some in the church now discount the importance…

On Ignoring “Issues”

Visits: 32[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] There is a rather persistent cry being made by some members of the church that preachers and writers should not bother the brethren with all of the “issues.” I have…

Are They Really So Nice?

Visits: 19[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] It is common knowledge that a serious new thrust is being made to create unity between the churches of Christ and the Independent Christian Church. It has been distinctly implied…

Reflections on the “Restoration Summit”

Visits: 46 [Note:  This MS is available in  larger font on our Manuscripts page.]   On August 7-9, 1984, a meeting billed as a “Restoration Summit” was conducted at Joplin, Missouri. The “Summit” was first conceived and suggested by brother Alan Cloyd of Nashville, Tennessee, in…

The “New Hermeneutics”

Visits: 40[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Hermeneutics is a word created from the name of Hermes, a god of Greek mythology, who served as interpreter for the other gods, especially Jupiter. Thus, hermeneutics refers to the science…

Surprising Things about the Church of Christ

Visits: 100[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction People who are not familiar with the church of Christ frequently express surprise upon learning of some point of doctrine or some practice that is peculiar to it. When we produce…

Instrumental Music—Aid or Addition?

Visits: 74[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction The fuller reading of the title of this manuscript would be, “Is Instrumental Music an Aid or an Addition to the Singing prescribed by the New Testament in Christian Worship?” By…