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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 13:18:02 GMT
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Post by Poppy on Jan 7, 2020 21:23:31 GMT
hi Mike I found the site but couldn't reply to your post. Do you think it will take off again?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 8:32:20 GMT
hi Mike I found the site but couldn't reply to your post. Do you think it will take off again? Only if the will is there from those who, like me, feel the need for something fresher than what us remaining 4-6 are able to muster on this site.
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Post by Poppy on Jan 8, 2020 9:43:51 GMT
hi Mike I found the site but couldn't reply to your post. Do you think it will take off again? Only if the will is there from those who, like me, feel the need for something fresher than what us remaining 4-6 are able to muster on this site. Try this one. www.christianityboard.com/forums/
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Post by Dave on Jan 8, 2020 16:00:53 GMT
Just my 2 cents, my limited experience of trying Helen's site was there were more religious nuts than in a fruit cake, revival is the result of Gods handiwork, how much of the Lord experienced in any church meeting or site is primarily the result of how much of Him that each brings and is willing to impute to bless others, as the Wirral wanderer would quote,IMHO. So I suppose my short answer would be Mike, not for me, but there again I'm not a fan of facebook either. Might be an age thing with me I suppose, each to his/her own seems to work for me, 'ever learning but never coming able to come to-----' one can have many teachers and end up the same way, I wonder what their "ever learning" was that they were never 'able' to come to the knowledge of the truth, I wonder if they just needed a change .
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Post by Poppy on Jan 8, 2020 19:27:51 GMT
Just my 2 cents, my limited experience of trying Helen's site was there were more religious nuts than in a fruit cake, revival is the result of Gods handiwork, how much of the Lord experienced in any church meeting or site is primarily the result of how much of Him that each brings and is willing to impute to bless others, as the Wirral wanderer would quote,IMHO. So I suppose my short answer would be Mike, not for me, but there again I'm not a fan of facebook either. Might be an age thing with me I suppose, each to his/her own seems to work for me, 'ever learning but never coming able to come to-----' one can have many teachers and end up the same way, I wonder what their "ever learning" was that they were never 'able' to come to the knowledge of the truth, I wonder if they just needed a change . I agree Dave but there also some nice folk too. And there is also an 'ignore' option so you don't have to read their rubbish.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2020 8:29:47 GMT
Just my 2 cents, my limited experience of trying Helen's site was there were more religious nuts than in a fruit cake, revival is the result of Gods handiwork, how much of the Lord experienced in any church meeting or site is primarily the result of how much of Him that each brings and is willing to impute to bless others, as the Wirral wanderer would quote,IMHO. So I suppose my short answer would be Mike, not for me, but there again I'm not a fan of facebook either. Might be an age thing with me I suppose, each to his/her own seems to work for me, 'ever learning but never coming able to come to-----' one can have many teachers and end up the same way, I wonder what their "ever learning" was that they were never 'able' to come to the knowledge of the truth, I wonder if they just needed a change . For me I guess it would be true to say "ever unlearning and never able to come to any definitive truth".
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Post by james on Jan 9, 2020 17:54:27 GMT
Unless the Lord build the house....... I find it hard to understand how a different site with the same people will produce any more of whatever is deemed to be missing on the current site. Thats just my thoughts, probably wrong most times am. Just as an instance Mike, how will contributing once a month on LV be more productive in the “fresher ” realm than once a month or so on SIT2?
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Post by Dave on Jan 10, 2020 17:08:22 GMT
Mike I've always believed in the more 'fluid' learning process in Christianity, like go with the flow or the 'pan' doctrine .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 12:30:25 GMT
Unless the Lord build the house....... I find it hard to understand how a different site with the same people will produce any more of whatever is deemed to be missing on the current site. Thats just my thoughts, probably wrong most times am. Just as an instance Mike, how will contributing once a month on LV be more productive in the “fresher ” realm than once a month or so on SIT2? How should we react to the fact that the only "houses" that are currently being 'built' are those where signs, miracles, and slain in the spirit extreme charisma are coveted, and those where leaders add the 'prosperity gospel' to that obsession, and manage to vastly increase their own wealth in the process.
Our local example is now a multi millionaire driving a Merc with the registration GO5PEL ("Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the son of man, who's example we are supposed to follow, had not even where to lay his head")
Every other 'House' increasingly resembles Old Peoples Care Homes with no young to middle aged members.
IMO it is not "The Lord" who is building the first category, and there is absolutely no 'building' that is going on in the second.
"unless the Lord builds the house ......" seems to have morphed into obsolescence.
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Post by Dave on Jan 11, 2020 23:39:04 GMT
As the Wirral Wanderer would question, has the 'house' since Pentecost ever been built?
Mike you should stop the Merc Multi and explain the 'true' spelling of the gospel, I like what Jesus said to Peter when Peter see's John,------what is that to thee. Jesus had already given Peter his calling, "Follow Me" To me what others are doing or not doing raises, what am I doing or not doing, the calling remains the same, follow ME.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 6:45:41 GMT
As the Wirral Wanderer would question, has the 'house' since Pentecost ever been built? As I said, the scripture "Except the Lord build the house......" has become obsolete. Whether you're right in insinuating that it might have been obsolete ever since Pentecost is a challenging thought.
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Post by james on Feb 5, 2020 19:51:32 GMT
Only if the will is there from those who, like me, feel the need for something fresher than what us remaining 4-6 are able to muster on this site.
I now understand, this has been on the boil since Jan the 8 with work and discussion. Would have liked the opportunity to be included from the start, nice not to be ignored.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 2:14:36 GMT
Only if the will is there from those who, like me, feel the need for something fresher than what us remaining 4-6 are able to muster on this site. I now understand, this has been on the boil since Jan the 8 with work and discussion. Would have liked the opportunity to be included from the start, nice not to be ignored.“Feeling the need, together with others, for something fresher” I emailed you on 4th January (4th February...sorry for the typo) as follows: If I'm right in believing that you have little further interest in Living Water I wonder if you would allow me to reform and resurrect it along the lines of the 'ghost' example that I have prepared at christianfellowshipforum.createaforum.com/Despite the fact that I had worked extremely hard at producing the precise Ghost example, to show exactly what I had in mind, you replied asking: “However do you see a way to resurrect it, and why bother?" From which I assumed that you were ignoring my ‘Something fresher’ reason, and had replied without even bothering to look at the ghost example to see "How I saw a way to resurrect (and freshen) it". As you say, I had been posting for over a month expressing my concern that Living Water, with all its lovely content, had been laying dormant, even though Createaforum had quickly resolved the hosting problem that cause you to open up SiT2. But that didn’t mean that I was intending to ”ignore you and try to resurrect it without consulting you”, and that my email was just a cover up for something that was already ‘fait accompli’. With a more positive response we could have been doing the business together, rather than via Helen’s admin status. What a shame. Anyway I hope that with my continued support on SiT2 the wound will eventually heal. "By this shall all men know that we are His disciples".
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Post by james on Feb 6, 2020 7:58:31 GMT
My dear Mike I hate to be pedantic but your email to me was sent on the 4 of Feb not the 4th of Jan, just two days ago. As you say Mike "I assumed", well you assumed wrongly. I saw the ghost but was aware just moving around the furniture does not make for a resurrection. Hence my question "how are you going to resurrect the site." You asked me about the site I had created, therefore I thought you were entering into a discussion, a bit of back and forth as to the who and the how. You chose to ignore my questions with reference to your commitment, having started and closed a few sites to date. You ignored how you thought one might drive like minded people to the site.
I note Mike that you say had I been more positive all would have been sweetness and light, so this that has been discussed without my input and knowledge prior to your email on the 4th of Feb (first I heard of it) is all my fault. If the true nature of this creation of a new site is for people who want a place to write where others will not bite there heads of why not use a site that is current such as staying in touch? You point out that I am in the wrong, not so sure I agree with that thought.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 8:48:19 GMT
. If the true nature of this creation of a new site (recreation of an existing site) is for people who want a place to write where others will not bite there heads of why not use a site that is current such as staying in touch? You point out that I am in the wrong, not so sure I agree with that thought. Not so dear James. I see now that I acted too hastily, and I see now that it was me that was "in the wrong" in doing so. But that's the sort of chap that I am....heart in the right place (I hope) but tripping over my feet as I 'run too fast'. I don't wish to sound too disrespectful to SiT2 but, whilst I try to support you in it, I fear that, because of its dwindled support, it will never grow and flourish in terms of abundance of interaction, which is what I crave and need, and that is why I wouldn't want to "use a site that is current such as staying in touch". Additionally, my desire was to re-open access to what I see as a wonderful depository of so many spiritually uplifting threads and posts. Actually I otherwise like Proboards now that I've got used to it, and I will continue to post here, despite having to wait 24hours (and sometimes even longer) before anybody replies or submits a new post (apart from twinc who I would prefer if he stayed silent )
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Post by james on Feb 6, 2020 19:31:59 GMT
Better get on here before the 24 hours is up
Thank you Mike, as you say least said and all that. James.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2020 20:11:55 GMT
In the words of the Hymnist: Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin. The Blood of Jesus whispers "Peace within"
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Post by ivor on Feb 6, 2020 21:13:15 GMT
I live in the now, I do have a place in my heart for commentaries on scripture by some of my favorite old giants of faith - but other than those commentaries old forum threads are old newspapers to me (sorry). Even if they are my old postings it was the me back then not the me now, Mike you often said that non of us change our views yet something happens because non of us today are the person we were just a few years ago and for me God only works with me as I stand today.
To create a reference work from whats gone before may make interesting reading and if the Lord leads you to that process then more power to your elbow my friend, you have a wonderful insight into all of us and can no doubt compile something powerful.. non of us can turn back time but you can write a book about it, You never know it may be cathartic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 4:46:52 GMT
I live in the now, I do have a place in my heart for commentaries on scripture by some of my favorite old giants of faith - but other than those commentaries old forum threads are old newspapers to me (sorry). Even if they are my old postings it was the me back then not the me now, Mike you often said that non of us change our views yet something happens because non of us today are the person we were just a few years ago and for me God only works with me as I stand today. To create a reference work from whats gone before may make interesting reading and if the Lord leads you to that process then more power to your elbow my friend, you have a wonderful insight into all of us and can no doubt compile something powerful.. non of us can turn back time but you can write a book about it, You never know it may be cathartic. Thanks Ivor, you cause me to ponder deeply on my problem of excessive nostalgic reminiscing on things that have past and gone. It may well be down to the tragic loss to cancer of my 56 year old wife Jean, who meant so much to me; having been my very first childhood sweetheart since the age of 10. It was almost 50 years ago that I lost her and, because her death caused me to realise that during our marriage I had given far too much attention to my commitment to various business endeavours, hardly a day has passed when I do not chastise myself with "too late now" and "if only". I think that must be what makes me what I am, and its a punishment that I just have to bare. But thinking of your concentration on "the now" I realise that is surely the "better part", if only it were possible for me (notwithstanding Jesus' words to Martha concerning Mary's concentration on 'everyday matters'). At 85 I guess my punishment will stay with me until my end.
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