Hello all:
My parents are on vacation right now and are currently in Texas. They are driving up to Missouri and Illonois, and might be hitting Louisiana and Mississippi while they are down South. They are planning on hitting Abeline and Harding on their tour.
One of my second cousins is a minister in Texas. My parents dropped in my Dad’s aunt and uncle to visit and wanted to see my cousin Arty. While they were there they were shocked to learn that Arty had “left the church.”
Arty now preaches at an Independent Christian Church. My parents aren’t too sure what to thing about that, but my Dad’s Aunt gave them a copy of “The Other Side of the Keyboard” to read.
My mom called me to ask what I thought about the book and the situation; she knew that I had read it because I had sent it over with my dad for her to read some months ago and it had gotten lost in his travels. I was at work so I couldn’t really talk about it. We keep missing each other by phone so I haven’t been able to talk to her about it. But, she reads my blog.
In a nut-shell, I think its great. I’m glad that Arty has a job, that a Independent Christian Church is willing to take the risk in hiring a preacher who was trained and grew up in the Churches of Christ, and I’m glad that Arty was willing to take a job with a congregation that is different from what he has known.
I hope that if Arty is ever ready to return to an a capella church that he is shown the same grace that the Christian Church seems to have shown him.
-Clarke