and believe me, Phil, don't bother trying to govern it, it is the lord who 
runs it.
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From: "MariJean" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: List Character


> 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!
>>
>>
>>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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