I wouldn't want to go to her church. It doesn't bother me to say it either.

god's time is his and you can't worship god while doing the worldly things.


--Books are written for information;
The BIBLE is written for transformation!

Donna Miller

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Ferguson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: A question of ethics and Reverence to God


> Hi Phil,
>
> Amen! I totally agree with you!
>
> No, you don't know this person.
>
> I have told her that it is either God or the ball games, one or the other, 
> but not both. She said she was going to talk to her pastor about it, and I 
> told her, if you do, please be sure to tell him all the details. I bet she 
> won't though.
>
> She some times even has to listen to old time radio shows during our Bible 
> Study or prayer and praise. Some times she gets interrupted by people in 
> her home, but I ask her to please mute. If she doesn't, I ask her again 
> until she mutes that darn phone with the number six key on the phone. I 
> have really gotten upset with her, and she got mad at me once and told me 
> I wasn't her mother. Then I left the line once, and she was talking about 
> me when I came back. She told this person, who is on this list, she told 
> her that she was going to get back at me. I was really furious.
>
> Phil, I know that Donna and Mike and I are in total agreement, and I have 
> been praying about this for a long time now.
>
> It's because of her that many people have stop coming up on Thursday 
> nights and Saturday nights.
>
> She wants to be a minister! Well, She's got a lot of growing to do, first.
>
> Oh, I better stop before I get in trouble.
>
> Thanks so much for your input. It is much appreciated.
>
> God Bless you.
>
> Love and Blessings,
> Pat Ferguson
> At 06:37 PM 10/11/2006, you 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.