Phil,

I can tell you one thing. This list has gotten me through when I felt 
alone, depressed, angry, sorrowful, disillusioned, in a valley. Then, 
it has let me play due to the indulgance of the list, and, for this, 
I thank you all quite openly.

You see, I pray-play. That is to say, THE TRUE LORD JESUS THE CHRIST 
has taught me to play with a child-like spirit. No, I am not a 
chapter and verse quoter, but I do know the voice of my Shepherd, the 
LOVER OF MY SOUL.

Thank you family for allowing me to be just exactly who I am. It is 
so refrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfreshingngngngngngngngngng!


IN HIS MATCHLESS NAME,

purple



At 10:08 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote:
>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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