Dear brother Rhoades,
I appreciate your kind remarks about our efforts to warn of the dangers of the Community Church movement. Our prayers are with you in your struggles at Madison. I hope these interview responses will prove helpful.
Fraternally,
Gary McDade
Getwell Church of Christ
1511 Getwell Road
Memphis, TN 38111
901-743-0464, fax: 901-743-2197
email: B36016@aol.com
An Interview with a Concerned Member of the Madison Church of Christ
Gary McDade
Dear Mr. McDade,
I am a concerned member of the Madison Church of Christ. As you may well know, we are in a struggle now with those that have aligned themselves with the way of Saddleback and the "Community Church" movement. Please, take this as a sincere thank you for your writings and web articles in reference to these things.
We are trying through our web site at http://www.ConcernedMembers.com/madison and other methods to let our members know what is going on.
One of the reasons for my email this morning is to ask you to participate in an email interview that could be posted to our web site for the knowledge of our visitors.
The interview is as simple as forwarding this email back to me intact with your answers to the below questions. It would then be posted in its entirety at www.network54.com/forum/150389.
Thank you, for your consideration,
David Rhoades
Question
Mr. McDade would you tell us a little about yourself and the Getwell Church of Christ?
Mr. McDade
Certainly, but first may I say that following the reports of trouble at Madison in the Nashville Tennessean we have been greatly concerned and the congregation has been in our prayers.
I am a native of Memphis and have preached here since 1982 for three congregations. I am a graduate of Freed-Hardeman University and Southern Christian University. In December of 1999, the elders at Getwell invited me to consider the work with them. I was honored to accept. Getwell is perhaps best known as the publishers of The Spiritual Sword which enjoys a readership of about 30,000 and has subscribers in all fifty states and 87 foreign countries. Alan E. Highers, preacher at Getwell from about 1959 to 1969, has edited the quarterly journal since 1989. I serve as the annual lectureship director. We just completed the twenty-sixth annual lectureship on "The Glory of Preaching" this past October. Getwell also hosts one of the longest continually running radio programs in the Mid-South and perhaps the country called "The Truth In Love" which airs over WHBQ 56 AM each Sunday morning at eight o'clock. I am also a weekly participant on a cable television program called "Friend of Truth" with Mike Hixson and John Shannon, Sr. The Getwell Church of Christ began meeting in July of 1950 and presently is overseen by our three elders, Ed Hagstrom, W.T. Hardwick, and Dewey Murray.
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