Articles for tag: C. Robert Wetzel

June 13, 2011

We asked former contributing editor Robert Wetzel to get answers from scholars to a question we have considered in several different ways in recent months: What is the future of our movement of churches? By C. Robert Wetzel ________ The future always grows out of the past, of course, so this week we decided to put the question before three historians: Paul Blowers, Dean E. Walker professor of church history at Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Johnson City, Tennessee. Doug Foster, professor of church history; director, Center for Restoration Studies, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas. Newell Williams, president and professor of modern

May 3, 2011

Christian Standard

Christian Living

A Good Ride, Just Begun

By C. Robert Wetzel In 1946 David Parsley and I were baptized by Lloyd Robbins at the First Christian Church in Hugoton, Kansas. We were 12 years old at the time. Lloyd gave us our baptismal certificates and copies of the Revised Standard Version of the New Testament. At the time the translators of the RSV had completed only the New Testament. It was later when the Old Testament translation was completed that the controversy over the RSV became so intense. Some will remember “The Battle of the Versions,” as the controversy was described by one well-known author among us.

April 19, 2009

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Church Leadership

Congregational Membership and Worshiping Community”“A Reflection on Church Polity

Â By C. Robert Wetzel One of the most divisive issues to plague the heirs of the Restoration Movement was the question of “open membership.” It became a symbol for a number of growing differences that were emerging among Christian churches early in the 20th century. But in many respects it was an unresolved question from the earliest days of the movement. That history is well documented, and I will not go into it here. In its starkest form, the issue centered on the recognition that the Scriptures taught baptism by immersion of repentant believers for the remission of sins

February 24, 2008

Christian Standard

Conferences & Gatherings Organizations & Events

The 2008 World Convention: Program, Speakers, Registration

By Staff The 2008 World Convention is scheduled for July 30″“August 3 in Nashville, Tennessee. Here is some information about this year”s program, speakers, Bible study leaders, and how to register. THIS YEAR”S PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 9:30 am“”Registration opens 9 am”“noon””Half-day tour 9:30 am“”Global Leaders Forum 1″“4 pm“”Half-day tour 7″“9 pm“”Opening worship at the Nashville Convention Center (Cynthia Hale, speaker) 9:15 pm“”President”s Reception THURSDAY, JULY 31 7″“8 am“”Early worship at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel 9″“9:45 am“”Worship at the Nashville Convention Center 10:15″“11 am“”Bible study 11:15 am““5 pm“”Workshops 7″“9 pm“”Worship at the Nashville Convention Center (Bob Russell,

September 2, 2007

Christian Standard

Conferences & Gatherings Organizations & Events

Speakers Announced for 2008 World Convention

By Staff Main session speakers have been announced for the 17th World Convention, slated for July 30″”August 3, 2008, at Nashville, Tennessee. The global gathering of the three streams of the Restoration Movement””Christian churches, churches of Christ, and Disciples of Christ””first met in 1930, and has gathered every four years since 1980. Main session speakers for the event will be Cynthia Hale, Bob Russell, Mike Cope, and C. Robert Wetzel (the 2008 convention president). The speakers will explore the convention theme, “Together in Christ.” Cynthia Hale, Wednesday evening”s speaker, is founding pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church (Disciples of

October 23, 2005

Clinton J. Holloway

Organizations & Events Conferences & Gatherings

Significant Event in the Life of World Convention

A look at Jesse Bader’s early call for unity and how World Convention has gathered the Stone-Campbell Movement across nations—then and now—while continuing a day-to-day ministry that strengthens global fellowship.