Hey Vickie,
We have some great characters on this list too.  I also love each one of you 
too.

Virgie and Lady Hoshi
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From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: List Character


>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
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>
>> 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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