May 10, 2011,
Dear Brother ______,
Thank you for your letter. It is nice to hear that you appreciate what I have written in my books on assembly truth—“God’s Order” and “The Search for a Scriptural Assembly.” My exercise has been to present the truth concerning the assembly as it was recovered in the 1800s, to my generation and to those who follow in the next generation in a simple and understandable way, with the hope that they will see it, value it, and walk in it. I believe that we need to serve our generation, as David did, by re-stating the truth in the same purity in which we have received it from the previous generation (Acts 13:3636For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: (Acts 13:36)).
I have enclosed 2 more books for you—“The One Body in Practice” and “Questions, Vol. 1.” I hope that you will enjoy these as you have the other ones, but I suspect that you may not go for all that is found in them, as these books deal more specifically with issues that relate to your assembly position. I hope that you will not be offended but exercised about it. I truly love you as my brother in Christ and heartily desire your good and practical blessing. Please read these carefully and prayerfully.
Your brother by grace,
Bruce Anstey