I have felt more support on this list then any others that i have been on...
I am glad that we can come straight out with what is going on in our lives
and not have to be afraid of peoples opinions or getting teased or laughed
at
----- Original Message -----
From: "VIRGIE UNDERWOOD" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: 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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