and i love the list!

Jenifer Gilley
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-----Original Message-----
From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:09 AM
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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.