You know.....I don't often want others to give me answers....I just want to
know someone cares!!
sometimes I want to discuss what a verse means...other times I have ajoke
to share. There are times too whe4n I am desperately sad and want others
to pray!
friends like all of you can give me all of these things.
Blessings
Rhonda
----- Original Message -----
From: "MariJean" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: List Character
> This list is the best one I have EVER been on. I love all of you as if I
> have known you all my life!I could have used a family like this one when I
> was growing up.
>
> LOVE TO ALL, AND HUGS AND BLESSINGS,
>
> affectionately, purple
>
>
>
> At 05:58 PM 3/13/2008, you wrote:
>>I believe she will reurnin the not too istant future.
>>
>>I love this list too and all of you.
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD"
>><[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:23 AM
>>Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] List Character
>>
>>
>>>Phil and everybody,
>>>I like this list just the way it is. We can offer suppport to each
>>>other, laugh and cry together, and that is what I think this list should
>>>be. If we are in need of a sermon I think we can get that here as well.
>>>I am sorry Kathy left the list and I hope she will return some time in
>>>the future.
>>>
>>>Virgie and Lady Hoshi
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:08 AM
>>>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.
>>
>>
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