"For a long time I have been vitally concerned about the popular centralization of our church meetings. The interest seems to be growing as one "big meeting" after another pops up, seemingly each one trying to outdo the other in attendance and publicity. The spiritual implications actually take the background! This is deplorable, one time unheard of among our people!

There are those that travel hundreds of miles regularly to hear "big name preachers" while showing little concern for the little flocks all over the country hungering for visitation"… Alvin Johnson (Excerpt from ' Letter to the Editor'  appearing in the Pathway of Truth September 1984)