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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