Checking out

Jude,

I hope you'll consider staying around and posting occasionally -- I (for one) would miss your input here.

It is frustrating sometimes, I admit, to not be able to post on threads where I feel I could add something! (For example, the thread in one of the Baptist-only areas about Iglesia ni Cristo, a group from the Philippines which some of the folks up there seem to have confused with the run-of-the-mill Churches of Christ.)

But it's their board -- whatever rules they make, I'm happy to honor.

Mark

 

Hey, Jude (isn't that a song?), I wouldn't take Dr. Bob's comments personally if I were you. If you have a suggestion or comment on how the board is run, I suggest you e-mail it to the webmaster, Clint Kritzer, or even Dr. Bob. I think you'll find that you'll get a reasonable response. But mounting a campaign against the moderators' policy right under their noses is a "no-no" and probably isn't very ethical. Also, take it from me (and check my membership date, I've been around a while) there was a time on this board when the moderators allowed anyone of any belief to post anywhere. Soon the board was high-jacked by radical Catholic apologists and it was impossible for baptists to discuss anything of mutual interest without facing a flood of charges of heresy. Entire baptist-bashing threads ran page after page and no baptists were even posting on them. The moderators tried several tacts to try to correct this without banning all but non-baptists from the board. Currently they seem to have struck a happy medium which works pretty well. After having been burned as they were, I can understand their strong feelings about their policy. In any case, I have enjoyed many of your posts and especially your polls. I hope you'll reconsider and stick around.

 

I am horrified!

Jude! Of all the people here, you are one of the most unobtrusive and certainly kind!

I hope you reconsider. Be mindful that I have been doing this for about 20 years, and I suppose I have developed a bit of a "thick skin" and so this "Roman" Catholic would plead you remain!

God bless,

PAX

Bill+†+


Lord, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things that I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardship as a pathway to peace;
taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
trusting that you will make all things right
if I surrender to Your will;
so that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.