Things are not the same....

[Guest koppen]

All I wanted to say is that although ALL of us do not ALWAYS agree on certain topics and things get heated at times...I still treasure ALL of you because we ALL have the LOrd in common and we serve him.

Last week and this week ALOT of people have left and this board IS NOT THE SAME!

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[hippo's hope is HIM]

Makes me sad koppen.

I have recieved many pm's about people leaving, or taking breaks.

I think this may not be a Satan thing after all. Maybe God is trying to wake us up. How often are we on this board? How much of your time do you devote here and to it's members? I know alot of time may be spent in studying the Word for a posts, or helping someone else, but are we spending ALONE time with JESUS. Not with our friends, as much as they help, and as much as we need them Jesus should be first. and though you may not think things have gotten out of order ask God to search your heart, he may just show you something. Why do you think we have been arguing so much, so many people getting hurt, so many strange things going on. Because some of us, many of us are taking our eyes off of Jesus and onto this board, onto things of the flesh. We are giving this ministry more time than we are Jesus. We are being Martha's instead of Marys. Worrying about cleaning up, making sure things are nice, encouraging, working and working, instead of sitting at Jesus's feet.

Is Christ REALLY the center of your life???? I've looked over myself and I have found that He is not. Worthy, Church, the ministry and sleep seem to come all before Jesus, and though those are good things, they are not Jesus.

May we not only pray for Worthy, and those that left, but ourselves and each Other. I think God may be trying to speak, and maybe we are too busy typing to listen.

[oakleaf]

things are never the same as eaach day goes by this world changes. There is 1 person that never changes, and that is JESUS christ our LORD. HE is our rock altho things around us change, and people come and go thruout our lives JESUS will always be there for us.......oak

[Trinity]

I miss alot of people that have left and now one of the first friends i had on the site had left

[Guest kitkat]

Things definately aren't the same. As I set at the computer today, I felt a sadness about this place like I had not felt before. A loss. A great loss. I felt like the board was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. The laughter has died. The joy is gone.

Those that I grew to love and treasure so much have left. Great people that helped and encouraged many, made us laugh, held us up in prayer, supported us all are now gone.

Beth, you're right, maybe God is telling us we need to spend more time with Him and helping others outside the computer. I don't know.

Hopefully, with prayer and if it be God's will, maybe things can go back to being the way they were.

In Christ,

Kat

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[AllforJesustheLord]

Who left?

[Jedi4Yahweh]

They will be back its all a front because they didn't get their little way.

It reminds me of a bunch of little kids whining about not getting their little way. People grow up this is a discussion forum where topics are discussed from many different backgrounds of Christianity. Just because you don't agree with someones opinion or it does not line up with your dogmatic beliefs does not mean you have to protest and say I am leaving because I disagree with you or start calling people names such as "heretic, false teacher, Serpent, Ignorant, Stupid etc.." You should expect disagreements thats all a part of discussing a topics. If all you do result to name calling because you disagree with someone then maybe you shouldn't be here in the first place. Maybe you should go and learn the second greatest commandment then come back.

God Bless you all,

[hippo's hope is HIM]

Jedi :I agree with you to a certain extent, but if you don't know who left and why, then how do you know that is why they left????

AllforJesustheLord:

Pasty, Shadow, Calamity, and LCPGUY have left. there may be more I dunno, but those I know for sure.

In any case Jedi, I hope you are right about them coming back. Because I miss my gramps (LCPGUY) and as far as I know , he ain't coming back.

prayin for worthy

[Guest koppen]

I know there is ALOT more to it than name calling...I have seen somethings that have REALLY concerned me as well..I wanted to leave but for whatever reason i couldn't for some reason or another...Maybe God wants me here???...Many things have been said about me out in the open and through PM's ...But I cose to ignore it all because I am keeping my eyes on the Lord and because He knows my heart...I know that those of you who have gotten to know me know who I am...I appreciate everyone one of you who have given me a chance to know you as well...All and all I can say that I have been blessed by the friends I have made here...But there are times when you just don't see things coming and right out of nowhere and it hurts...Anyways as I ramble on.... Love you all. Kelli

[GymRose]

Jedi I think you are not entirely correct where some are concerned............. There maybe some that have left for that reason. I left for a while due to circumstances of life but also because there were things here that I would call less than Godly going on behind the scenes with some and I didn't want to get to the stage I was putting people down or having a go at people out in public ( nor behind the scenes) when it did happen I thought it best to step back because I don't like confontation................. We are all human so it is definetly going to happen like it or not.

I think Beth is correct though and some things can be seasonal. When I first came here I was batteling illness that kept me indoors and the people here became very much of a wonderful support for me and well as I hope I was for others. I came to a point where it was time to step away from the computer and get myself together and now allow small amounts of time for the computer.

I have noticed tention since I have been back and infact the very first post I made after not being here for at least a couple of months I was personally attacked ( nice welcome back ) and I nearly left straight away again but then I picked up that something has been going on and it wasn't just me this happened to.

I became addicted to the computer and I think Beth is correct in that there needs to be balance and we need to live in the real world as well as here.

Please don't take me the wrong way for those here that this is a life line to the real world for I Know there are some here who without the computer would have nothing because they are confined to their homes due to health and circumstances. I'm talking about those of us who can and should be out doing Gods work for His kingdom.

Although there is some tention here I am really enjoying the fellowship with those I became so close to.