Then and only then, Pat. I wish I had known about e-church years ago.
This is the only place that I feel totally accepted. I love, love,
love it here!!
group hug, and that includes you too, Philipus Scovellicus!
purple
At 10:46 AM 3/13/2008, you wrote:
>Phil, That's why I've been on this list for so long, because of what
>it is, and what it is not. <smile>
>
>I love EChurch, and You are a super person for starting it.
>
>BTW, I hope I did not offend you with my silly birthday message to
>you on this list. If I did offend you, I do apologize profusely.
>
>I pray this list never goes away, except when Jesus comes.
>
>Lovingly,
>Pat Ferguson
>
>
>
>At 11:08 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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