Where Have All Of The Cons Gone?

[Rhymis]

What am I? Chopped liver?

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Rhymis

What am I? Chopped liver?

LOL!! Yes. Anyone with just over 400 posts in the length of time you have been around is indeed "chopped liver"!

You need to post a lot more and recruit some of your ultra con brethern to get on here and set everybody straight!!!!!

[The Mrs]

Originally Posted by CC1

LOL!! Yes. Anyone with just over 400 posts in the length of time you have been around is indeed "chopped liver"!

You need to post a lot more and recruit some of your ultra con brethern to get on here and set everybody straight!!!!!

LOL! Amen!

I think part of it is that all the conservatives haven't left...just the ones we're most familiar with. We have new people signing up every day.

[deacon blues]

I'm still here CC. If I must bear the conservative burden alone, I'll do what I must.......


But the Lord has spoken to me and said that there are yet 6,000 who have not bowed their knee to Baal............................

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by CC1

I have not been able to be on AFF very much the last few months due to work and other things.

However when I am here I have noticed that a great number of the conservative posters seem to have abandoned us. Some entirely and some still show up occasionally but not very often.

Did I miss a big blow up or something in particular that caused this to happen?

Or are all of the conservatives and ultra cons just talking to each other at CAF and other conservative forums?

I really miss the great balance we had on here and the interesting interactions.

My personal opinion is they did not want the balance. While they can claim this board is liberal or moderate, the only thing that makes it liberal is the lack of conservatives and vice versa.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by StMark

I seriously thought that some of them would come back when Matt let Dan Alicea go. At least I think that was the hope. some left because of him but when they got rid of him I suppose that didn't satisfy???

Epley and Coon are the only ones that i can think of that post anymore and it's rare. Coon and IAM left and started another forum for preachers only. many preachers here feel like the ministry is being torn apart and disrespected.

I have no idea why Steadfast isn't posting anymore but he is on IAMs forum.

The conservatives believe that there are people here out to destroy the Apostolic message.

And they are not up to defending it? It was always from the beginning known we have people here that believe in Acts 2:38 but that salvation comes before baptism at faith/repentance and those that believe all three precede salvation. Same with standards. We all knew that going in. Some posters like Mizpeh and Ferd did a good job arguing for their views while others chose to get mad and leave.

[IAintMovin]

Originally Posted by Sherri

There is a new preachers-only forum that a couple of guys from here started, I think. It's pretty conservative, from what I've heard. I think several of the AFF guys have migrated over there.

Sherri and anyone else who cares to know the truth......There is a new forum up and running. It is for just preachers.....it was started to give the ministry a place to post without those outside the ministry (no slam at all just a different dynamic) AFF already fills the need of ministry and those outside the ministry posting together.....There is WordShare which is UPCI only (no slam just a different dynamic)...it was not started by a couple of AFFers who had left, it was started by me, everything was in place and it was ready for people to sign up and I called Coon and informed him of it and ask him to go and see if he could sign up if he wanted to, he did.

Justpreachers was not started to compete with anyone, it was started because I thought it might be good to have a forum for ministers only but not limit the scope to just UPCI....so far it has been good, it may crash tomorrow, but as of tonight it is good.

I read later on in this thread that Mark has the "real" scoop......but in reality I have just given the real scoop.....actually not a scoop, just reality.......

God bless each of you.......

[KarenJo]

I think it's a great idea! Kevin Shindoll the Admin. and is now in the process of cleaning out the old membership and making sure that the Ministers give their real name and UPC Lisc. info. If anyone knows Kevin Shindoll they know he is a man of good character. He was our Assit. Pastor here at North Cities until The Baxters decided resign their church and now he Pastors in Indiana. He will do a good job. Right now you can view the entire member list but other than that it's closed.

[TRFrance]

Originally Posted by StMark

The conservatives believe that there are people here out to destroy the Apostolic message.

Very true. Clearly, many of them have ratcheted-down their intensity since you-know-who left, but a few of them still lurk in the shadows, so to speak.

Originally Posted by Praxeas

And they are not up to defending it? It was always from the beginning known we have people here that believe in Acts 2:38 but that salvation comes before baptism at faith/repentance and those that believe all three precede salvation. Same with standards. We all knew that going in. Some posters like Mizpeh and Ferd did a good job arguing for their views while others chose to get mad and leave.

"Defending it"? Praxeas. Please. Just listen to how that sounds!
Why should they have to "defend" the apostolic message on an apostolic forum?

I don't blame anyone at all who felt like leaving. Most of us come to an apostolic forum for edification and fellowship, not for continual head-butting, nor to "defend" the apostolic message from the attacks of ex-apostolics and anti-apostolics. That gets real old after a while.

[ChicagoPastor]

I'd say that the justpreachers forum is pretty conservative.
If you are a "liberal" Apostolic preacher you need to be careful what you post over there.
I learned my lesson