John,

Sorry! It's a big problem, and it's not going to happen on our 
conference line at all.

Even if we can't hear it, just knowing it is happening is making me 
mad and it is so very disrespectful to God.

Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
At 06:42 PM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
>If you people that are on the phones can hear the person's game, 
>that's different.  In that case, that's a problem.
>
>earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>
>>Pat,
>>
>>Tell them to turn that damn radio off or get off the freaking phone.  Let me
>>tell you what I do on Sundays when I am teaching.  Some people, and I have
>>never done such a thing of course, like to whisper to each other during
>>church.  It may be a little different in a large church where you are 500
>>feet back from the pulpit and the pastor can't even see the shine on your
>>bald head from that distance even with his tri focals on, and the public
>>address system he is speaking through echoes so much, you'd think you were
>>in the super dome or something, but in a small living room and dinning room,
>>where you have a dozen adults squeezed in with four or five kids, some as
>>young as three, and an African Gray Parrot who swings around and bangs his
>>hanging toys all over the cage, whispering is very distracking.  So, what I
>>have begun doing, since it has really started to bug me, I stop teaching.  I
>>mean, I stop talking all together and I don't start until the whispering
>>stops.  I have foregone speaking up and telling them to shut up because of
>>the kind and loving man of God I am but that'll be next.  Besides, who cares
>>about football, or baseball, or any other game, when you are trying to have
>>church?  What is this, a circus or church we are having here.  Somebody over
>>there needs their butt kicked.  I hope it isn't somebody I know.  In which
>>case, I take everything back I just said and beg for forgiveness.
>>
>>Phil.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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