and that is what exactly what we all are, family...
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From: "MariJean" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: List Character


> Phil,
>
> I can tell you one thing. This list has gotten me through when I felt 
> alone, depressed, angry, sorrowful, disillusioned, in a valley. Then, it 
> has let me play due to the indulgance of the list, and, for this, I thank 
> you all quite openly.
>
> You see, I pray-play. That is to say, THE TRUE LORD JESUS THE CHRIST has 
> taught me to play with a child-like spirit. No, I am not a chapter and 
> verse quoter, but I do know the voice of my Shepherd, the LOVER OF MY 
> SOUL.
>
> Thank you family for allowing me to be just exactly who I am. It is so 
> refrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfreshingngngngngngngngngng!
>
>
> IN HIS MATCHLESS NAME,
>
> purple
>
>
>
> At 10:08 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote:
>>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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