To: All Members of the Madison Church Of Christ , Past and Present

From: Concerned Members with a Right to Know

Date: 08/29/2001

Subject: You Have a Right To Know What's Happening!

Dear Member and Ex-Members of the Madison Church of Christ,

Do you recognize this scenario?

You're at church and suddenly realize that someone has changed your church! You ask people you know, "What's going on", and everyone says, "I don't know". You wonder, what do they mean! Have we been asleep? "What's going on here?" So, you approach some of your church elders with the same question. You get a similar answer. Now, your gut feeling is, "something's not right here".

Someone knows what's going on here, but it's not me!

Sunday School

You ask your children if their Sunday School has changed? Their reply, "Yeah!". You ask, "What has changed?" They say, "Oh we mostly sing; my teacher said, "Things needed to be made more entertaining!" You think, "Entertainment?", since when do families go to church to be entertained?

A Real Life Nightmare

By now you've figured out this is not a dream, but a real life nightmare. This nightmare is affecting an untold number of Madison Church of Christ members. A few very concerned members have contributed to the distribution of this poll. How many more members share these thoughts and concerns? The answer to that question is "We don't know". However, we all have a right to know! You have a right to know, if you wish!

National Worship Format Issues

There are churches in this nation that "export" division by the very nature of their view of worship. We will not name a particular church that causes us to make this statement. However, other churches and church leaders have considered the idea of emulating the spectacular growth of one or more churches that "entertain" their members rather than worship God because it fills the churches to the brim, as the old phrase goes. Leaders of some of these churches believe that members of churches who prefer what they would call "the old beliefs" need to be converted to entertainment, run off or run over to prevent them from restricting growth. There is a glaring reason why this may be happening across America, if not the world. It is a lot easier to get people to join an entertainment venue than to get them to commit to follow Christ and worship God in Holy reverence.