Hello all:

I have a couple of different things to post about, but I’ll start with this one first.

A few days ago I was talking with my 80 year old Grandmother, who lives in Missouri, over the phone. I was curious, so I asked her how she became a Chrisitan. She told me that she grew up in the church, and that her mother had grown up in the church as well.

I made a comment during the conversation that her mother must have remembered the division between the Churches of Christ and Christian Churches quite well. My grandma wasn’t sure exactly when the division happened, but she did have something to say about it:

“You know, your granddad and I had friends in the Christian Church. Their service in town was before ours, so we would go and worship with our friends at the Christian Church, and could still make it to ours. They were pretty much just like us except they had an organ. I just couldn’t disfellowship those people just because they used an instrument.”

Thats a good example that we should follow today.

-Clarke