Our Life Together Vol. 3 Nr. 28 July 15, 1975, Part 2

Clay Ford starts a series of articles in this issue about Christian Unity. He writes of how the churches are coming together -- regardless of denomination -- all over the world. I think that there really was a major move of the Holy Spirit in the 70s that brought people together. We even see this in the secular world -- the flower children -- free love etc. Of course from the Christian perspectives, these secular movements were only imitations of the real thing. But there was something going on throughout our world. I think that we have lost a lot of this in the intervening years.

The songs that Clay mentioned bring back memories. They are still sung sometimes in the little church that I now pastor; Bay View Baptist Church.


Tom McCulloch continues in this theme. God sees us as we really are. If we want others to really know us, we must open ourselves so that we can be seen. These were teachings that meant a lot to me and still do. These are relationship building exhortations. Relationships are the most important things that we have.

I mentioned on Facebook about the little quote that the Westby Wall was completed. I have discussed this elsewhere. The wall was a series of retaining walls to terrace the back yard. It was constructed of concrete block. I had never done masonry so this was a major undertaking. All of the young men in the household helped to dig the foundations and set up the re bar for the foundations and reinforcements. Glen Frehafer and I were the main block layers. Thank God, Glenn knew what he was doing. It was a real relief to finish this project.

Larry Clark had a real ministry of picking up the quotable quotes. He did this a number of times throughout the years of OLT. This article gives a flavor of the ferment in our world at this time. Ken's quote about Viet Nam got a lot of comments on Facebook. Frankly I agree with Ken. One of the problems at that time was that most people weren't involved except to see things that bothered them on TV.

A major issue in which FBCCV and the community were involved in was trying to deal with our denomination. The American Baptist structure was not open to the Charismatic movement. As Baptists, each church is autonomous so we were allowed to worship as we wished, but they definitely held us at arm's length.