Oh yes I remember that incident too Phil.
When I thought of "list characert," by the subject line, I wondered which
character on the list we were referring to. Goodnes. Just couldn't help
that remark. Ha!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:08 PM
Subject: [ECHURCH-USA] 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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