You bet we can, Rhonda.

We're always here, even though at times, the list seems to go quiet. 
We're still here anyway. Btw, I need the same things!

purple



At 01:56 PM 2/1/2004, you wrote:
>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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