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Yes, but most churches are small and can only afford a few staff, i.e. one pastor, to care for the needs of the members. A large church needs more "pastors" which is often a collection of smaller groups/churches which operates under one banner/senior administrating pastor. Depending on the...

Are you suggesting that there are not any scary women on this forum who are not kind or domineering? My experience is that there are. The question that is difficult to answer is, "How do you encourage the scary people to change without offending them so that they do not resort to lawyers and...

No, I was just pointing out that equality of the sexes does not exist on this forum otherwise the moderators would have created a men's only forum as well, at the same time. Whether or not the "male only" forum would become "successful" should not have been considered. The question that comes...

Presenting an SDA Sunday School teaching as being reliable and simple is only true because it leads many astray. Goodbye Hobbie.

When posters in these threads are not able to see the spiritual entities behind the events that have happened, then their "opinions" are usually not their own but are expressions of these spiritual entities that have fallen and rebelled against God of their 'own' understanding. Satan has...

Did I say 'disgraceful?' Oh yes, I did, but it was a page or two back in this thread and I had to go back to find out that I had used this word. Oh well. So be it.

No, I was commenting on the quality of the discussion and its source, whereas your response was a put down of the person. In other words, you had to resort to a false argument tactic, without offering any substance to back up your opinion. In other words, you obvious did not understand what I...

This thread has bothered me from the first OP. It gives me the impression that if we do A, B and/or C then we will overcome what we do not like by acting God like and enforcing our perceived wisdom onto others.

So, the BS continues from both sides of the divide with little substance to back up their respective claims as to their "holiness," in the adorning eyes of those who worship their "religious" guru leaders. Oh, how far have we all fallen?

We do not need hymnals anymore because we either sing seven words twenty-four times or twenty-four words song seven times. Usually, the words go something like this: - "Lord, we want to worship/love you." And the Lord asks, "When?"

So, is "spin" <smile> is just another name for a false argument where the facts of the matter do not get in the way of a good "storyline."

Woke principles have a wide range of turf in which it raises its ugly head. The woke principle that you must, for example, conform to a particular theological understanding otherwise your expressed opinions are not acceptable to the loud opponents who hold to very different POVs. Wokeness is a...

Then, we both have a dilemma.

I am following your examples of vagueness.

On this forum we have a women's only forum, limited to only women members, but if equality was a hallmark of this forum, then there would also be a men's only forum limited to only male members. Does this demonstrate "wokeness" or am I overreacting.

If that is what you believe I am saying, so be it. Seems like understanding of what you read is not your strong suit.

An uncalled-for post, Hobie, on your part.

Well yes, I was not trying to speak for you, it was just my observation of how you react when others disagree with your POV. Perhaps, that is because we both have not read widely enough to know what others may really think. Yes, and that "truth" that you are defending is from your perspective...

Was I not also speaking of myself, just as you have in your response to what I had posted. As to having a lot of beliefs all to myself, well, I am content that they have been revealed to me by my heavenly Father. When people point out something of value, you do seem to rear up angerly...

Hello The parable of the Sower is not a parable about leaving our circumstances that we are living in, it is a parable about the responses of the Israelite over a period of around 4,000 years after each 1,000 years, from the start of the stream flowing out from under the Altar to God until the...