Foru.ms - a new beginning and a fresh start (2)

[pgp_protector]

He might want to clean up the whois entry.

LOL maybe it's there work address.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Pertinent, non-socky questions.

Please address the issue of how new CHRISTIANS will find this site, and why they would ever want to join it if they did.

Many, many Christians came to this site through searching for Christian forums - you acknowledge that yourself in your FAQ. You also acknowledge that the site has lost many members since these changes, and after reading your responses you are very likely going to lose even more.

So how are new Christians, or any Christians at all, going to come here to participate in your Joel Osteen-ish outreach program? And if they don't come, and you're losing the Christians who are here already, who is going to be doing this outreach?

Without the snark, I have essentially the same question.

 

[Esquire]

I wonder if the sock argument might be able to be held elsewhere, so maybe Erwin will actually respond to a pertinent post or two in here without them being buried.

That sounds a little paranoid . Not everyone is involved in a conspiracy.

 

[No Swansong]

What section do you want me to start the thread in ?

OBOB

 

[JimfromOhio]

Yeah right start telling people they are sinners in need of salvation. See what happens.

We can preach to them that they are sinners but only the Holy Spirit is able to convict them to repent. We don't make people repent.

 

[snoochface]

That sounds a little paranoid . Not everyone is involved in a conspiracy.

Huh?

 

[No Swansong]

We can preach to them that they are sinners but only the Holy Spirit is able to convict them to repent. We don't make people repent.

Have I said that we do?

 

[Esquire]

Huh?

I misread my apologies.

 

[JimfromOhio]

Have I said that we do?

You are making that impression in your negative posts when with God, all things are possible.

 

[No Swansong]

Well bedtime. No doubt this will be continuing in the AM.

 

[CaDan]

Preaching the gospel isn't selling Amway.

 

[JimfromOhio]

Well bedtime. No doubt this will be continuing in the AM.

Me too... I have to get up at 6:30 am

Good night everyone

Of course, as usual, people will continue to debate in this and other threads.

 

[pgp_protector]

OBOB

Done.

 

[CoachR64]

Erwin, so changing the name is meant to appease the non-Christians? Bull crap.

We don't have to change our churches to "houses of social networking" to get people to come. You have taken away our name and that is a huge insult to Christians. What you are doing is incredibly wrong and uncalled for. You own the site, so you can do anything you want. That much is fact. But you have insulted and kicked dirt in the faces of the Christians on this site.

You are a sell out and a coward.

Coach

 

[No Swansong]

Not sure how you read that but it is not at all my position.

 

[JustRachel]

All I have to say is that as a Christian coming home after a long absence, I would never have found this place had it been listed as foru.ms on google. I really, really need the Christian fellowship now!! I will not leave yet. I figure I'll know things are really going down hill when the armor and blessings are changed to something generic.

 

[CaDan]

Erwin, so changing the name is meant to appease the non-Christians? Bull crap.

We don't have to change our churches to "houses of social networking" to get people to come. You have taken away our name and that is a huge insult to Christians. What you are doing is incredibly wrong and uncalled for. You own the site, so you can do anything you want. That much is fact. But you have insulted and kicked dirt in the faces of the Christians on this site.

You are a sell out and a coward.

Coach

Could you explain without the insults? I'm trying to understand why the name of the site is so important to some people.

 

[No Swansong]

Done.

This has to be my last post for the night but perhaps I did not make myself clear.

I am speaking of telling an individual that they are a sinner and in need of salvation. I am speaking of doing so to an individual who claims to be a Christian but clearly does not understand what a Christian is or what the Gospel is. Your post is not what I was referring to.

I can however see the confusion as I did not make myself clear. Nice post by the way.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Could you explain without the insults? I'm trying to understand why the name of the site is so important to some people.

It's just the packaging. But without the packaging, you don't know what's inside the tin.

 

[Time2BCounted]

Could you explain without the insults? I'm trying to understand why the name of the site is so important to some people.

Aside from the name would you agree this board is in need of a common christian creed defining Christians from cults and false doctrine?