Fellowship: The condition of being an associate; mutual association of persons on equal and friendly terms; communion; companionship; intimate familiarity; to unite with in doctrine and discipline.
This definition is from Webster's unabridged dictionary. As you can see each meaning carries with it it's own deeper set of definitions.
I suggest that we, as a group, fall somewhat short of the goal, and ought to make ourselves more aware of the needs of other's and less aware of our own desire to be needed.
In my stay here, I have tried to be one who is empathetic to others while reaching out to learn from the experiences of others. As a human I will always fall short, but as a Christian I will love and bear the burdens of others to the best of my ability.
This is a class system board. And there are different forums to accomodate different needs. Some, like this one, are marked plainly "For Christians Only". It is, therefore, a violation of rule 6 for any non-christian, as defined within that rule to post in this forum.
Many non-christians side step this issue by leaving their profiles blank and professing neither Christianity nor anything else. But as Jesus said, we know them by their fruits, no mater what they profess. These people should be prayed for and witnessed to and every effort should be made to win them. But that should be done in the forums clearly marked "OPEN".
Since Light has no fellowship with darkness, these posts should be reported so that mods can exercise their right to remove the posts of darkness.
An attempt was made to hijack this forum and disrupt a thread of celebration and turn it into a debate over public prayer, proclaiming it to be wrong, and that it was done ONLY to be seen, even though the Christ, whose Name we bear, Himself, set the example of praying in public for the expressed purpose of being seen by others. He did it so that other's would see that He gave all the Glory to the Father, and that is exactly what we should do.
John 11:
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
One of the many examples of the public prayer of Jesus to Glorify the Father.
Back to the definition of fellowship having to do with Unity in doctrine and discipline. There is no unity or discipline in premeditated argumentative disruptive behaviour.
Therefore, as bearers of Light, we should not tolerate darkness in our fellowship.
This definition is from Webster's unabridged dictionary. As you can see each meaning carries with it it's own deeper set of definitions.
I suggest that we, as a group, fall somewhat short of the goal, and ought to make ourselves more aware of the needs of other's and less aware of our own desire to be needed.
In my stay here, I have tried to be one who is empathetic to others while reaching out to learn from the experiences of others. As a human I will always fall short, but as a Christian I will love and bear the burdens of others to the best of my ability.
This is a class system board. And there are different forums to accomodate different needs. Some, like this one, are marked plainly "For Christians Only". It is, therefore, a violation of rule 6 for any non-christian, as defined within that rule to post in this forum.
Many non-christians side step this issue by leaving their profiles blank and professing neither Christianity nor anything else. But as Jesus said, we know them by their fruits, no mater what they profess. These people should be prayed for and witnessed to and every effort should be made to win them. But that should be done in the forums clearly marked "OPEN".
Since Light has no fellowship with darkness, these posts should be reported so that mods can exercise their right to remove the posts of darkness.
An attempt was made to hijack this forum and disrupt a thread of celebration and turn it into a debate over public prayer, proclaiming it to be wrong, and that it was done ONLY to be seen, even though the Christ, whose Name we bear, Himself, set the example of praying in public for the expressed purpose of being seen by others. He did it so that other's would see that He gave all the Glory to the Father, and that is exactly what we should do.
John 11:
40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
One of the many examples of the public prayer of Jesus to Glorify the Father.
Back to the definition of fellowship having to do with Unity in doctrine and discipline. There is no unity or discipline in premeditated argumentative disruptive behaviour.
Therefore, as bearers of Light, we should not tolerate darkness in our fellowship.
Those apologetics forums, oof 
Debates and things don't belong here, but I don't see the problem in asking sincere, honest, harmless questions in order to learn more about the things we talk about. Like you guys have said....unless the person is rude or dispruptive, or they say something specific about their beliefs, we have no idea where they are in seeking God (or not seeking God).
