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1 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21167 | ||
Personal Note ................................... Dear Waldo, Thank you for sharing your sincere and heartfelt experiences. I would appreciate your thoughts about my idea to have people go through individual books of the Bible? |
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2 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | waldo700 | 21176 | ||
One more thought: I think the purpose of the forum overall is a bit ill-defined by Lockman. They wanted an online "study" Bible, but has really become a place of debate about ideas. It is hardly a place where I could come to look at Scripture itself and find the best of Orthodox Christian teaching on a passage, (all views fairly presented, since that's really what a Study Bible is). And I believe there is a lack of leadership. There does not really seem to be anyone leading the thing or giving it direction. It's anarchy -- itself an unbiblical way to approach fellowship. As for your idea on people being responsible for individual books of the Bible: I think it is an idea with a lot of merit; but it might be hard to implement -- hard to obtain the commitment required to make it work. That's because, for many, this is a hobby (I mean the forum, not Christianity) and what you are suggesting would require a lot of work and commitment. However, I still think it is an idea with a lot of merit and I would have more to say if the idea were expanded and further developed, so we could all see what it really looked like in practice. Too bad Lockman can't put some moderators in here to evaluate such an idea and perhaps implement it in an orderly fashion... or if the moderators are well-trained, to lead the studies themselves. Another solution is to start your own forum, which is fairly easy to do. For instance, I have a forum at http://forums.delphi.com/choosecalvinism/start and many other Christians have forums on http://forums.delphi.com/ as well. Maybe there could be a forum there for the fellowship of those who hang out at the Lockman Study Bible Forum, too. ??? waldo garcia |
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3 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21198 | ||
How can it work?................................ Dear Forumites, Waldo brings up a good question. How could we implement such a large undertaking. It would require a significant commitment to provide commentary on an entire book of the Bible. At the same time, there is a solution. To begin with, each person could choose a book whose size and complexity would be suitable for the amount of time that they were willing to put forth towards this goal. Someone with little time to contribute could do one of Peter's letters, while someone with more time could do a gospel, while someone else with a ton of time could do Genesis. There could of course be some circumstance that would cause a person to not be able to finish, but even if that were the case, progress would still have been made. Having commentary on half of Romans is better than just having it on the 20 verses that everyone talks about all the time. I would also recommend that a person who wanted to be responsible for a book of the Bible have some sort of minimum number of posts to the Forum already (perhaps 100). Of course, there's nothing to stop anyone from doing this sort of thing on their own, but I think that it would be important to have some sort of way to ensure that such an important task was handled respectfully. Also by having a history of posts from the author, one would be able to see where that person was comming from more clearly. This would help us all take individual comments that a person would make about a book in the context of their overall beliefs. This would also probably diminish "knee-jerk" objections to that often have led to long debates that are eventually discovered to be based purely on a misunderstanding. So what's everybody think? Could we make this work? Are you willing to try it? I think that God has assembled a collection of very gifted and Godly Christians in this Forum, and would like to see this happen. Are there people ready to make some commitment? |
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4 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21204 | ||
Personal Note .................................. I hate to leave while this all gets figured out, but I've got to take off for the weekend. I'll look forward to comming back Monday to see what you guys figure out. P.S. One other post mentioned how there will still be people comming to visit the Forum and ask questions that aren't related to specific passages. I would recommend that we of course keep trying to help answer those people and point them in the right direction. This new idea is not to replace that, but to supplement it. |
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