Word and Work
# Word and Work

Word and Work is a religious journal associated with those Churches of Christ that hold to a premillennial $eschatology.^{:782–3}^{:306}$ It was founded in 1908 by Dr. David Lipscomb $Watson.^{:782}$

## History

During the period 1912 to 1913, the Word and Work began publishing articles written by Charles M. Neal supporting dispensational $millennialism.^{:783}$ In 1913 Watson sold the journal to Stanford Chambers, who became the sole $editor.^{:783}$ Watson, a postmillennialist, was disturbed by the increasing editorial emphasis on premillennialism, and later tried in two unsuccessful lawsuits to regain control of the $journal.^{:783}$

Chambers sold Word and Work to Robert Henry Boll in $1916.^{:783}$ Boll had been a controversial front page editor of the Gospel Advocate, writing articles on biblical prophecy during his tenure beginning in 1909; he was forced to resign in 1915 as the result of a developing controversy over his millennial views and the importance he placed on biblical prophecy in the study of the $Bible.^{:96}$ His eschatological focus came into conflict with the church-centered views of other Church of Christ leaders of the $time.^{:306}^{:97}$ The reaction to Boll's premillennialism helped to define and solidify the amillennial view among the mainstream of the Churches of $Christ.^{:306}^{:97}$ Under Boll's leadership the Word and Work became the journalistic voice for premillennial Churches of $Christ.^{:783}$ Boll also used the journal to promote foreign mission $work.^{:783}$

E. L. Jorgenson and J. R. Clark succeeded Boll as editors when he died in $1956.^{:783}$ They were followed by Gordon R. Linscott in 1962, William Robert Heid in 1976 and Alex Wilson in $1986.^{:783}$

