CORRESPONDENCE WITH A LIBERAL CHANGE AGENT

Bro. Al Maxey of New Mexico maintains a website which he called Reflections.
He is a vocal spokesman for the change movement. After reading one of his reflections I recently wrote Bro. Maxey the following note:

Dear Bro. Al:

It seems to me that you are playing word games in your current Reflection. You say you love the church of Christ you read of in the Bible; but only if you are allowed to define and interpret it according to your templet of what it should be. You are a member of a religious body that you see as a faction or sectarian group called the Church of Christ and for those people you have very little respect or regard unless they happen to be of your personal persuasion. Your expressed point of view cannot possibly be described as conservative, or even moderate. You must agree that it is liberal compared to the majority of your fellow-members of Churches of Christ.  You have much more in common with Christian Churches, even Baptist Churches than with most members of the Churches of Christ today and 99 percent of them in days past. The question is, why do you stay among a people you feel are so mistaken in their understanding of Christianity? 
Follow your heart to those with whom you find affinity.

Notice the following quotes from Bro. Maxey's Reflections # 20, March 1, 2003.

"I am an agent of change...I am an agent of my Lord promoting a change of focus, a change of direction, a change in the way we perceive one another, and a change from the bondage of Law to the liberty of Grace."
"I have neither desire nor intention to depart.  They're stuck with me. And what's more they are going to continue to hear my repeated pleas for changed hearts, transformed perceptions and rededicated lives."
"Yes, too many of my brethren have ‘botched the unity thing, the love thing, and the grace thing.' I am not only ‘embarrassed' by such nonsense, but greatly distressed by it.... ‘disgusted.' That is the fitting term." Yet he calls us his "beloved brethren."

Brethren who have a hard time believing that the change movement is serious or that it will ever bother their local congregation should pay heed to his words.  Now is the time to inoculate every member of every congregation with the "healthy" words of God's truth (Tit. 2:1). Truth makes people free (John 8:32). It will keep Christians free and safe from the error these agents of change are promoting.