I have been saying "Goodbye" to several of my friends. You probably do not know some of my friends. I estimate to have about 1,100 of them. B. H. Carroll provided me some of my friends. He wrote the volumes, INTERPRETATION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE. Carroll was a former president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.
Two old timers (classics) adorn my shelves: Armitages' HISTORY OF BAPTISTS and Orchard's BAPTIST HISTORY A. D. 33 TO 1800. Orchard tried to prove that Baptists go all the way back to Jesus. Armitage believed in what has been called the "spiritual kinship" theory in which he did not believe you could trace Baptists back to the first centuery but there were groups who are "kin" to us going back to the time of Jesus. Neither theory is accepted by Baptist historians today, but they are classics.
Then there are friends from my former professors: REVELATION AS DRAMA by James Blevins, THE INTEGRITY OF THE CHURCH by E. Glenn Hinson, ACTS by John Polhill, THE WORD OF TRUTH by Dale Moody, ACTS by Frank Stagg, EXODUS by Page Kelly, DEUTERONOMY by Clyde Francisco, SURPRISED BY GOD by James Cox, etc.
Some of my friends are from devotional writers: PRAYERS by Michel Quoist, CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE by St. Augustine, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN by Thomas Merton, KNOWING GOD by J. I. Packer, PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by John Bunyan, PURITY OF HEART by Soren Kierkegaard, MARKINGS by Dag Hammarskjold, etc.
A friend on administration: THE PURPOSE DRIVEN CHURCH by Rick Warren. A controversial friend: THE MESSAGE OF GENESIS BY Ralph Elliot. A more recent friend: COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE by Siang-Yang Tan.
I am keeping some. I am leaving some for you, my friends, to take with you. They are on tables in the Family Life Center. They are my books.
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