Calling It What It Is

  [343 words] The past several years have produced an uneasy, unfounded shift in brotherhood terminology. Much has been written in various journals and papers, and even more has been said in countless lectures and sermons concerning “our movement” and “our fellowship,” with less and less being said about the Lord’s church. Not so long ago, preachers of the gospel proudly proclaimed the beauty and singularity of the Lord’s church. But times have changed, as has the language and conviction of many current preachers, editors and church leaders. It appears that now, at least in the minds of what appears to be an ever-growing segment among us, loyalty to the Lord and His blood-bought church is being blindly bartered for affiliations with either an historical, humanly-devised movement or some undefined, nebulous and vaguely-bound fellowship. It is true that we, as God’s people living now in the twenty-first century, owe much…