I believe she will reurnin the not too istant future.

I love this list too and all of you.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] List Character


> Phil and everybody,
> I like this list just the way it is.  We can offer suppport to each other, 
> laugh and cry together, and that is what I think this list should be.  If 
> we are in need of a sermon I think we can get that here as well.  I am 
> sorry Kathy left the list and I hope she will return some time in the 
> future.
>
> Virgie and Lady Hoshi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:08 AM
> Subject: List Character
>
>
>>I told Kathy, and I'll mention it here, that all the lists I have owned 
>>over
>> the years, and especially this one, I have not tried to govern the
>> personality or character of the list.  The ebb and flow of this list 
>> swings
>> one way, and then the other, based upon where individuals are at any 
>> given
>> moment in their walk with the Lord.  If it is to play, then people play. 
>> If
>> it is to teach or share articles relative to daily Christian life, then 
>> such
>> articles appear.  If it is sadness, need for prayer, or encouragement due 
>> to
>> present circumstances, that's the direct echurch goes.  I have always
>> intended echurch to be a support group rather than a Christian list of
>> people trying to be a Christian, if you get my drift, so there is why, to
>> some degree, echurch looks as if it has no continuity.  If you want
>> structure, steady Bible teaching, rules and regulations, legalism,
>> Scriptural interpretation, counsel, Sunday school awards for perfect
>> attendance, you should either find such a church to attend or find a 
>> mailing
>> list with exactly those types of list policies.  Yes, indeed, there are 
>> such
>> lists out there.  I am, of course, far from being your Christian example 
>> but
>> I do personally know the One you should follow.  I own other lists and 
>> one,
>> blind exchange, I owned for about 10 years before giving it up to someone
>> else.  That list I did work at keeping to the topic of blind related
>> information but, admittedly, it drifted off topic many times.  Echurch 
>> has
>> never been anything other than a Christian support Group but it, too, 
>> drifts
>> off topic, as you well know.  I'm not trying to make anybody happy here
>> because if Jesus can't do that, I dead sure can't.  Yes, sometimes we get
>> into a silly mode where we tell jokes.  Have you ever noticed how a 
>> church
>> body of believers is quite similar?  Sure, there is the preaching and
>> teaching time every Sunday but at least echurch has never taken an 
>> offering.
>> I have never seen this list over 50 or 55 members and half of those never
>> post or have set themselves to no mail.  So, we are a pretty small bunch.
>> Oh, sure, I could work at building it to a couple of thousand members.
>> Think of the email you'd be getting then every day.  I've been on email
>> lists bigger than that.  What a mess.  Anyhow, echurch is you and me 
>> being
>> Christians.  If Vicki or I ever think things are going astray, like into
>> heresy, which one member a long time ago, by the way, tried not only
>> proselytizing but tried using list members as targets to adjust their 
>> Bible
>> theology to his cultish belief, we will speak up.  He was, and is, a nice
>> guy but what he believed is heresy and I used Biblical documentation to
>> refute what he was trying to promote on the list.  He eventually left
>> peacefully.  So, like Bill O'Rilley always says, the spin stops here 
>> because
>> we are looking out for you.  By the way Rhonda, I think that's what it 
>> means
>> to be your brother's keeper but Cain used it as an excuse to dodge why he
>> didn't know where his murdered brother Able, was whom he had killed.  As 
>> if
>> he thought God didn't know already.  There I go again, drifting off 
>> topic.
>> So now you know what echurch is and is not.
>>
>> Phil.
>>
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