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John Schwery <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:01:12 -0400
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Just block her from the conference, Matthew 18, applied.

earlier, Pat Ferguson, wrote:

>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.
>
>
>
>
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