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John Schwery <[log in to unmask]>
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The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:42:08 -0400
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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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John


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