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International Convention Assembly
Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ)
Denver, Colo., Aug. 28-Sept., 2, 1959 (*** - from Sid)
The 1959 Assembly, holding the majority of its meetings between now and next Wednesday, is designed TO LEAD the congregations of the Disciples of Christ ( ) INTO A 10-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DURING THE 1960S. The period has been designated their Decade of Decision.
[CONTRA: Alexander Campbell, and family and friends, began a new church in 1812, which was named the 6th largest congregation in the United States in 1895. Who could improve on that record?]
1959 Year Book Disciples of Christ ( ).
Resolution No. 34.
Concerning Brotherhood Restructure, a Report of the Board of Directors
2. Creation of Committee on Brotherhood Structure
At its meeting on October 15, 1958, your Board of Directors created a committee on Brotherhood Structure consisting of the following individuals: Willard M. Wickizer, chairman, Wilbur H. Cramblet, Loren E. Lair, Riley B. Montgomery, Warner Muir, Lester B. Rickman, Walter W. Sikes*, Granville T. Walker, Mae Yoho Ward, W. A. Welsh, Mrs. James D. Wyler, John Paul Pack (ex officio), Gail M. Cook (ex officio).
[CONTRA: Did you ever see so many grandiose names linked together? Were they all hoping for lasting fame?
The Results: Walter A. Sykes* sees all such efforts as reflective of the catholic [meaning, universal] impulse and intention inherent in the Movement, but it was necessary to be freed of the incubus: of restorationism before there could meaningful dialogue. He is persuaded the Disciples must function as a denomination among denominations, for if there is any hope** for unity in the foreseeable future it will be by means of denominational structures.
Yet the Disciples are sometimes involved in dialogue that holds no promise of structural unity, such as their recent meetings with Roman Catholics, one in Indianapolis (1977) and another in Rome (1978) Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee.
Alexander Campbell, and Robert Milligan, and B.W. Johnson, and Henry H. Halley (all great Bible expositors), and the congregation of my youth, all taught that, There is hope only in Jesus Christ.
They all had a slogan, No creed but Christ, no book but the Bible.
So then, I am comparing unprecedented success in the past, with unprecedented failure in the present.
And what is the difference? Jesus Christ!
But then, Hans Rollman, a lousy, selective reader historian, reported the Church of Christ decimated between 1890 and 1900 by premillennialists. He and several other lousy historians tell of the stagnation of the Churches of Christ, in the first half of the twentieth century, because of no organized missionary work.
The Death of God Theology, in the 1960s, is documented to have begun in the ex-Restoration Movement, and Cincinnati Bible Seminary, and the Christian Standard Publishing Company. The man named was Paul Blair, who also wrote for Sam Stones Christian Standard magazine.
Mr. Stone, at a later time, began publishing Roman Catholic Sunday School Lessons.
For: Death of God Theology and Paul Blair see: A Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1865, pages 436 and 519-20. J. L. Ice, and J.J. Carey (1967) were also named as supporters of, Death of God Theology. At the tender age of 30, or possibly 35, I spotted Paul Van Buren as a false teacher, on the pages of, Sam Stones Christian Standard.
Prophecy was denied. Kingdom History and Restoration Movement History were banned worldwide. Most of the important books have been out-of-print since the early 1990s.
But then, despair not! I am a Living Link to the Millennium.
Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ)
Denver, Colo., Aug. 28-Sept., 2, 1959 (*** - from Sid)
The 1959 Assembly, holding the majority of its meetings between now and next Wednesday, is designed TO LEAD the congregations of the Disciples of Christ ( ) INTO A 10-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DURING THE 1960S. The period has been designated their Decade of Decision.
[CONTRA: Alexander Campbell, and family and friends, began a new church in 1812, which was named the 6th largest congregation in the United States in 1895. Who could improve on that record?]
1959 Year Book Disciples of Christ ( ).
Resolution No. 34.
Concerning Brotherhood Restructure, a Report of the Board of Directors
2. Creation of Committee on Brotherhood Structure
At its meeting on October 15, 1958, your Board of Directors created a committee on Brotherhood Structure consisting of the following individuals: Willard M. Wickizer, chairman, Wilbur H. Cramblet, Loren E. Lair, Riley B. Montgomery, Warner Muir, Lester B. Rickman, Walter W. Sikes*, Granville T. Walker, Mae Yoho Ward, W. A. Welsh, Mrs. James D. Wyler, John Paul Pack (ex officio), Gail M. Cook (ex officio).
[CONTRA: Did you ever see so many grandiose names linked together? Were they all hoping for lasting fame?
The Results: Walter A. Sykes* sees all such efforts as reflective of the catholic [meaning, universal] impulse and intention inherent in the Movement, but it was necessary to be freed of the incubus: of restorationism before there could meaningful dialogue. He is persuaded the Disciples must function as a denomination among denominations, for if there is any hope** for unity in the foreseeable future it will be by means of denominational structures.
Yet the Disciples are sometimes involved in dialogue that holds no promise of structural unity, such as their recent meetings with Roman Catholics, one in Indianapolis (1977) and another in Rome (1978) Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee.
Alexander Campbell, and Robert Milligan, and B.W. Johnson, and Henry H. Halley (all great Bible expositors), and the congregation of my youth, all taught that, There is hope only in Jesus Christ.
They all had a slogan, No creed but Christ, no book but the Bible.
So then, I am comparing unprecedented success in the past, with unprecedented failure in the present.
And what is the difference? Jesus Christ!
But then, Hans Rollman, a lousy, selective reader historian, reported the Church of Christ decimated between 1890 and 1900 by premillennialists. He and several other lousy historians tell of the stagnation of the Churches of Christ, in the first half of the twentieth century, because of no organized missionary work.
The Death of God Theology, in the 1960s, is documented to have begun in the ex-Restoration Movement, and Cincinnati Bible Seminary, and the Christian Standard Publishing Company. The man named was Paul Blair, who also wrote for Sam Stones Christian Standard magazine.
Mr. Stone, at a later time, began publishing Roman Catholic Sunday School Lessons.
For: Death of God Theology and Paul Blair see: A Documentary History of Religion in America Since 1865, pages 436 and 519-20. J. L. Ice, and J.J. Carey (1967) were also named as supporters of, Death of God Theology. At the tender age of 30, or possibly 35, I spotted Paul Van Buren as a false teacher, on the pages of, Sam Stones Christian Standard.
Prophecy was denied. Kingdom History and Restoration Movement History were banned worldwide. Most of the important books have been out-of-print since the early 1990s.
But then, despair not! I am a Living Link to the Millennium.
