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" 
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>Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [ECHURCH-USA] List Character
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>>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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