Now We Know What To Call Them
While in Arkansas recently for a meeting I talked with a banker whose bank had a depositor called "The Cooperative Churches of Christ." He explained that several Negro congregations had contributed to a "common fund," which is what some of the brethren are contending for now, and that its purpose was to preach the gospel among the colored people of that section. A brother had been selected as treasurer and of course that was necessary. He didn't know who had control of spending the money but I suppose they worked that out and it wouldn't matter how they did it. But their problem was how to deposit the money and under what name to carry it without getting it confused with the account of the other churches of Christ in the city that might use the same bank or the colored church that did use the same bank. They solved this problem by simply calling it "The Cooperative Churches of Christ" and signing their checks that way. They are not as naive as white brethren sometimes. That is what they are and that is what it is — so why not call it what it is? We have a lot of "Cooperative Churches of Christ" among us.