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Our Heritage of Unity and Fellowship OUR HERITAGE OF UNITY AND FELLOWSHIP Writings of Leroy Garrett and W. Carl Ketcherside Edited and Published by Cecil Hook Order From: Cecil Hook (Mira Prince) 905 Forest Canyon Cove Round Rock TX 78664 (512) 716-3066 Table of Contents DEDICATION ................................................................................................................................i Introduction ....................................................................................................................................1 1. It Began In Scotland.................................................................................................................8 2. Thomas Campbell Writes His Declaration of Independence ................................................13 3. The Spirit of the “Declaration and Address” ........................................................................17 4. Principles of the Document ....................................................................................................23 5. Historic Notes on Our First Church .......................................................................................27 6. “Let Christian Unity be Our Polar Star” ................................................................................29 7. The Noblest Act in Barton Stone’s Life.................................................................................34 8. Learning from a Backwoods Preacher ...................................................................................40 9. Christians in Babylon.............................................................................................................43 10. What is the Gospel?................................................................................................................48 11. The Essence of the Campbell Plea .........................................................................................52 12. The Death of a Dream ............................................................................................................55 13. The Sand Creek Address........................................................................................................62 14. A Muddled Movement ...........................................................................................................75 15. The Authority Totem..............................................................................................................78 16. The Party Spirit ......................................................................................................................84 17. The Bed of Procrustes ............................................................................................................88 18. Our Costliest Sin: Exclusivism .............................................................................................91 19. Restoration or Reformation....................................................................................................94 20. A Boy Learns the Meaning of Brotherhood...........................................................................98 21. Analysis of Legalism............................................................................................................104 22. The Butting Brethren............................................................................................................114 23. The Essence of Christian Fellowship...................................................................................116 24. Thoughts on Fellowship.......................................................................................................121 25. On the Rocks ........................................................................................................................125 26. Withdrawing from the Disorderly........................................................................................127 27. Causing Divisions ................................................................................................................130 28. Two Great Errors..................................................................................................................133 29. Union in Truth......................................................................................................................139 30. One Body in Christ...............................................................................................................142 31. Unity and Identity.................................................................................................................150 32. Unity in Diversity.................................................................................................................153 33. Is Doctrine Important? .........................................................................................................157 34. The Weightier Matters .........................................................................................................161 35. Must We Give Up Our Opinions For the Sake of Unity? ....................................................165 36. What Difference Do Differences Make?..............................................................................168 37. The “One Baptism” and Fellowship.....................................................................................171 38. Are We to Fellowship the Unimmersed? .............................................................................176 39. Our Fathers on “Who is a Christian?”..................................................................................179 40. “Our Brothers in the Denominations”..................................................................................182 41. What is “Our Fellowship”? ..................................................................................................184 42. Are We to Fellowship the Christian Church? ......................................................................186 43. I Would Abdicate .................................................................................................................190 44. A Basic Fallacy to Overcome...............................................................................................192 45. Can We be United and not Know It? ...................................................................................195 46. Separated But not Divided ...................................................................................................197 47. The One Church Indivisible .................................................................................................200 48. Unity Will Come, But….......................................................................................................203 49. If not Brotherhood, Then Co-Existence ...............................................................................206 50. This is Our Glory! ................................................................................................................209 51. The Unifying Power of the Cross.........................................................................................212 http://freedomsring.org/PDF/Heritage.pdf Our Heritage of Unity and Fellowship DEDICATION In admiration for their roles as humble peacemakers, their acceptance of all those in Christ, and their courage to tear down divisive walls, this volume is lovingly dedicated to Leroy Garrett, who shares the common life in Christ with all His disciples on earth, and to William Carl Ketcherside, who is enjoying blissful fellowship with the redeemed from every age and nation and tribe and tongue and people in heaven. - i - http://freedomsring.org/PDF/Heritage.pdf Our Heritage of Unity and Fellowship Introduction Cecil Hook When Leroy Garrett challenged me to edit a book from his writings and those of Carl Ketcherside, my first impulse was to shrink from it. To create a book on the subject of our heritage of unity and fellowship sounded like an idea whose time has come, but that would be a job beyond my capability. Only after Leroy’s further persuasion and days of my contemplating the project have I agreed to undertake this. My anxiety has been that I would not be able to edit material to represent properly their efforts to direct us back to our roots. I have not yet overcome that apprehension. My intimidation is born of the deep respect and admiration that I feel toward Carl Ketcherside and Leroy Garrett and their influential ministries. I am only one of the many who owes much to each of them for giving me clearer insights. They have been God’s prophets crying out to a divided church in the last half of this century. They have understood the Biblical basis for unity and the purposes of the Stone-Campbell Movement to restore it. Their mission has put them in front of and above the crowd to receive the slings and arrows of fellow-disciples who have misunderstood or prejudged their messages. Although they accepted and ministered to all segments of the Restoration heritage, because they refused to be confined by the sectarian walls that divide us, they were not fully accepted by any of the separated groups. But the Spirit is working exciting change among us at this time giving fruit to the seed they have sown. This is not a book of history primarily; yet some narratives of the past are necessary to reveal the legacy of unity and fellowship which we may claim. And those are exciting chapters. Most of this material first appeared in Garrett’s Restoration Review or Ketcherside’s
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