Letters

Dear Christis,

I am writing this letter in response to Janet Creegan’s article on the “One Voice” mission. Firstly, I don’t agree that what was presented amounted to a “Christian variety show”; such things as drama, dance and even mime are used in Church worship today to help people discover more about Christ and Christianity. I think the mission presented Christianity in a far more relevant way than a ‘normal’ church service would have done.

As for Donald English targeting his message at a “middle class family” audience, I suspect that most students present came from such a family. In my opinion, Donald English’s message was relevant to all people, no matter what their occupation and class. I agree with Janet that it was impossible to come away without positive and thought-provoking ideas and hopefully these ideas have planted themselves as seeds to be nurtured in those non-Christians who attended the event with us.

Rachel Hornsby

Dear Christis,

Thankyou for collecting together an interesting range of retrospective views of the One Voice mission. It struck me as an extended version of your idea for the Thinker column — the views of several individuals being placed together to encourage the fruits of thought and discussion from comparison. I would like to see this done more often. Or maybe the Thinker could feature more detailed answers; even if this meant sacrificing volume, I suspect that the greater depth would also provide more breadth.

Thinking back to the One Voice mission, and also to the CU mission, to which you gave excellent coverage last year, a question springs to mind. With all the time, money and effort given, why didn’t God do more? Why didn’t we see revivals?

Perhaps we still take things too easily, sitting on the beach of our dry-as-dust religion.

Yours in love,
Lewis Barker