The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 2018 Page: 13 of 35
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ACROSS THE NATION
THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 13
APRIL 2018
Marshall Keeble
Author: Richard Lewis Hunter, Sr.
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This year is the Golden Anniversary of Keeble’s death. In April of 1968,1 entered the sanctuary
of the largest Church of Christ in middle Tennessee where Ira North was the Senior Minister.
The church was packed from wall to wall with more Caucasians than African Americans. That
same month the nation lost Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4.1968. What a paradox-
two men that were giants in their respective struggles. As I sat at the funeral I reflected on
his many sermons at his home congregation, Jackson Street Church of Christ. No one ever
assesses the effect of one’s life until you count the fruits of their labor. Everyone views life
through a different prism of reality. This book seeks to explore the detrimental effect of
Marshall Keeble’s life on the Negro Church and the trajectory of its success and/or failure
based on his philosophy in dealing with racism within the Churches of Christ.
THE STONE THAT CRUSHED
PROMOTING APARTHEID AND
NURTURING A PLANTATION CULTURE
A Story of the Most Powerful
Negro Preacher in
The Church of Christ
'MAYBE WE HAVE ALL LOST OUR FOCUS'
For centuries, followers of Christ
relied heavily on people in authority
to tell them what God said, what
they should believe and what they
associated with our buildings and
trying to be this traditional idea of
what the Church of Christ is. We
have become a place to go instead of
a way of living.
“Matthew 5:13-17 states how the
followers of Christ should be salt and
light. We bring out the ‘God flavors’
and ‘God colors’ in this world, mean-
ing the Church of Christ should
show people what heaven looks like
here on earth.”
'JESUS KNOWS WHO HIS SHEEP ARE'
Like Lorick, many survey respon-
dents said that Churches of Christ
spend too much effort debating the
nature of the fellowship itself.
“Our obsession with talking about
our own identity is distracting us
while the rest of the world moves
on,” said Aaron Campbell, a member
of the Farragut Church of Christ in
Knoxville, Tenn. “As we continue to
fuss, fight, split and grow smaller, we
will become irrelevant and invisible
to the world around us.”
Others said they see Churches
of Christ less as an earthly body
and more as an ideal — born from
a desire to practice simple, New
Testament Christianity.
“I believe that Jesus knows who
his sheep are, and we do not have to
delineate exactly where the bound-
aries of his kingdom’s reach,” said
Daryl Beatty, who worships with
Hope Fellowship, a church in the
Houston area.
Once, on a trip to China, Beatty
looked for a church to worship with
on Sunday. He found a congregation
on the internet.
“On the website, someone had
asked ‘What denomination are
you?”’ Beatty recalled. ‘The answer
was, ‘We don’t have the luxury of
worrying about that here.’
“I fear that, if we focus too much
on that luxury here, we may get to
the point where we no longer have
that luxury. Jesus prayed for unity
in John 17, and the modern Church
of Christ was born as a unity move-
ment. Let it not become focused on
division and delineation of exactly
who is a member.”
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should do, said Carl Royster, data
collector for the “Churches of Christ
in the United States” directory.
“The Restoration Movement
sprang forth from a time when peo-
ple were free to study the Scriptures
for themselves and free to question
what they and their ancestors had
been told by others for so long,”
Royster said. “People by the thou-
sands came to hear and believe in
the truths found in the Bible.”
Two centuries later, far too many
believers allow themselves to be
consumed by a quest to be “right,”
Royster said, noting that the Great
Commission does not say, “Go and
prove yourselves worthy by making
sure you get every single minute
detail exactly right.” Neither does
it say, “Go make sure you have an
enjoyable experience. You are free
to do whatever it is that makes you
happy and feel better about yourself.”
“Now, do I think that the
Churches of Christ as a whole strive
diligently to follow
the New Testament
pattern as all people
should? Absolutely,”
Royster said. “Have
we gotten too caught
up at times in the
fine details that we
. have missed the big
Roys,er picture? I think so
“Perhaps we need to put more
energy and effort into the things
that really do matter, such as show-
ing the love of Christ to each other
and to the world around us, and
teaching a lost world about Christ
and him crucified. I think being
a Christian and a part of Christ’s
body, his church, does not mean I
have to get everything exactly right
all the time or that all congregations
have to do everything exactly the
same, but neither does it mean we
are free to just do whatever we want
to please ourselves. After all, it’s not
about us; it’s about God.
“So, denomination or non-denom-
inational; one cup or multiple cups
during communion; a cappella or
instrumental; a paid evangelist or
not; a praise team or a single song
leader — is that really what Christ
is all about? Maybe we all have lost
our focus just a little.”
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Tryggestad, Erik. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 75, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 1, 2018, newspaper, April 1, 2018; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1509388/m1/13/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.