Editor's Update

by Brian L. Martin

For those of you who are wondering, “What happened to the Winter issue?,” the simple answer is that there wasn’t one. The more complex answer is that this is it, only we’re calling it the Spring issue. After getting the Summer and Fall issues into mailboxes after Summer and Fall had officially ended, and not being successful at speeding up production any, it just seemed easier to call this the Spring 2007 issue. Hopefully it will arrive in your mailbox during the Spring of 2007, and we will be on track.

We have formed a nonprofit corporation called Fulfilled Communications Group, and are awaiting a ruling from the IRS regarding our tax-exempt status. What this means is that those who wish to support Fulfilled! Magazine financially may now make their checks payable to FCG (Fulfilled Communications Group) instead of to me personally. However, until we have a ruling from the IRS, contributions cannot be considered tax deductible. Should the IRS rule in our favor (please keep this in your prayers), the tax exemption is retroactive to the date on which it was applied for, so any gift received after January 9, 2007 would be recognized.

I want to express our gratitude to those of you who have sent in donations. With a growing readership of over 900, we will soon have to print more than our usual 1,000 copies. Also, subscription requests from overseas continue to trickle in, which take a heavy toll on postage. Additionally, I think that there is a real need to increase the magazine to 20 pages. It’s becoming increasingly difficult for the contributing authors to limit the length of their articles, and we’ve already dropped the number of “Perspectives” respondents from 4 to 3. But enough about finances for now. I’ll share more in the next issue, when we will hopefully have the IRS ruling.

For those of you who are artistically inclined, we’d like some ideas for a Fulfilled Communications Group logo. You can email digital logos to me or send hand-drawn ones via standard mail. (Please note that by submitting any item you are relinquishing all rights to that item. Sorry for having to be so legalistic, just consider it your contribution to a worthwhile ministry.)

Besides the normal word-of-mouth advertising, links to www.fulfilledmagazine.com continue to be shared in emails and added to various Preterist web sites. We appreciate the support of other Preterists and Preterist ministries. We may not all agree on the various details of Preterism, but that doesn’t mean that we have to divide over them. I like what John L. Bray said in a recent newsletter:

We occasionally publish articles by other authors. This does not mean I necessarily agree with everything they say, any more than they would agree with everything I have written. But there are some good men out there who do write some good things, and we like to share with you what they are saying. I have even spoken at several churches which believe in “tongues” speaking, though I have never spoken in so-called “tongues” at any time in my life and do not believe the Bible teaches that the practice ought to be done. But I have fellowship with some who do. I believe in eternal security, but have friends among those who do not. And I have many friends among both the partial and the full preterists, and the premillennialists too. I do try to share my shades of thinking with others, but I don’t fall out with any just because they don’t agree with me.

As always, we appreciate the wonderful emails, letters and phone calls with your words of encouragement. I do my best to respond to everyone who asks a question, but it always takes longer than I’d like. By the way, when we mail out extra magazines and book orders we send them at the Media Mail rate, which is the most economical. We feel that this is being good stewards of limited resources; however, Media Mail prohibits any kind of personal note. So please forgive us if deliveries seem too business-like and lack a personal touch.

God bless,