I guess thats the benefit of Wordshare and CAF. They are private forums so a lot of conversations stay in house. Even so, you still have to be careful.
I am not afraid of my conversations getting out.
Even PM. I try to be the same at all times.
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I am not a member here -Do not PM me please?
Anyone who wants to know my real name and where I go to church and who my pastor is need simply ask me. I have no problem associating my "real" self with what I say online.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Anyone who wants to know my real name and where I go to church and who my pastor is need simply ask me. I have no problem associating my "real" self with what I say online.
What is your real name?
Where do you go to church??
Who is your pastor???
What is your social security number????
__________________ For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! (Gal 5:13-15/ NKJV)
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Anyone who wants to know my real name and where I go to church and who my pastor is need simply ask me. I have no problem associating my "real" self with what I say online.
I would have responded earlier, but all the hari-cari posting distracted me.
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I am not a member here -Do not PM me please?
Do you really think someone is receiving "life instructions" from a pastor here?
Aren't we all adults having conversations?
I respect ministers and pastors, but are they so above laity, that we cannot discuss anything together?
I'm not feeling your pain here......
Many of us laity "have" been in the ministry.
I see us as all being equal here. In fact, I wouldn't know most posters are even pastors except they have it in their sig line, in their username, or underneath it, as KwaiQ does.
And the same for me. Unless I mention I'm a pastor or preacher, who would really know?
If I was a pastor or preacher and didn't want to mingle with the commoners, I'd join a preacher only forum so I couldn't be tainted......LOL!
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I've gone and done it now! I'm on Facebook!!!
Oh no, my point is not that ministers are superior to laity other than responsibility.
Its just everyone wants preachers to be "real" and sometimes that is not possible. TD Jakes said something that I'll never forget. He said "there are people dying to get to know you, and the minute you let them close enough to - they will hate you".
What people say they want from ministry and what they really want are two different things.
I sooooo totally agree with that statement!
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I've gone and done it now! I'm on Facebook!!!
I do think that we (preachers) should be careful in our dealings with forum members. Some ministries have been tainted by casual comments that were not sinful in any way.
Disclaimer:
My post above mentions being 'tainted' but has no reflection on anything PP says in this thread nor anywhere on this forum. I just now read this, and thought I should explain myself further. I was merely answering Renda's post as she wrote it without reading into it.
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I've gone and done it now! I'm on Facebook!!!
PM incoming....minus the SS#.
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