August 19, 2007
From Conversation to Cooperation
By Victor Knowles Since 1984 thousands of people from across the United States have attended the unity meetings known as the Restoration Forum. These annual gatherings, attended primarily by interested members of Christian churches and churches of Christ, have focused on Jesus” prayer for unity in John 17, “That they all may be one . . . that the world may believe.” On September 6 the curtain will fall on this unique gathering, the longest-running, and arguably the most successful, unity endeavor in the history of the Restoration Movement. At 9:30 a.m. April 16, 1982, a “Code Blue” was issued






