Sure we can!

Virgie and Lady Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MariJean" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: List Character


> Hey Vergie,
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> Can we play sometimes, plplplplplplplplplpleaszszszsze?
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> purple
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> At 06:16 PM 3/13/2008, you wrote:
>>Hey Vickie,
>>We have some great characters on this list too.  I also love each one of 
>>you too.
>>
>>Virgie and Lady Hoshi
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:58 PM
>>Subject: Re: List Character
>>
>>
>>>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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