Amen Phil! Amen and amen!
LOVE AND BLESSINGS TO ALL,
Reeva Parry.
At 10:08 PM 3/12/2008, Phil Scovell said:
>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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