Hi Phil,

I love, love, love, love e-church just as it is. Please DO NOT change 
it. It is the best list out there, and, that includes mine, which, by 
the way, people can join, but, not if they are going to leave our Family.

very purple Mari



At 05:00 PM 3/29/2008, you wrote:
>Amen Phil! Amen and amen!
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>LOVE AND BLESSINGS TO ALL,
>
>Reeva Parry.
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>At 10:08 PM 3/12/2008, Phil Scovell said:
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>>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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