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1 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21440 | ||
Looking for commitments ......................... Dear Forumites, I would first like to thank Tim Moran for being the first forum leader to be willing to commit to providing commentary on a book of the Bible. From the posts so far, it looks to be a very thorough and interesting study of 1 Peter. So who else would be willing to commit. Nolan, you mentioned you were thinking about picking a book. And Swartzkm, you're often talking about how much you value the input of the people here on the forum, directly instead of just quoting others. This would be a chance for you to start add a lot of primary thoughts. Hank, you mentioned that the forum would be improved with a stronger sense of purpose. I think that this is a great endeavor to accomplish just that, and it could use your help. Searcher (Steve Butler), you mentioned that you're somewhat frustrated by the repetition on the forum. For you this would be a great chance to cover some new territory and bring up new thoughts for others to ponder. Finally, Prayon, you brought up the observation that this forum is a terriffic opportunity to witness to others and enlighten "baby Christians". This would give you a chance to provide answers for many verses that future visitors to the forum will be able to use to answer questions that they have. All of the people, who I just mentioned, would IMHO, be excellent leaders of individual books of the Bible. I can only hope that they would have the desire to choose to commit to making it happen. From a logistic standpoint, I would recommend that since Tim Moran has already chosen a NT letter, we try to vary things a bit with our other books. Perhaps someone could take a gospel, someone else could take a minor prophet, a third person could take a book of history, and a fourth person could take a book of poetry. I will see what others volunteer for and then take a book from whatever category is left over. Finally, I would suggest that each time a person adds a primary note on a verse of the book they are leading the discussion on, that they also add a first response. That would keep all those posts from filling up the box of "primary notes without responses". This first response could just be a period, or could be a welcome for feedback, or even an email address to send questions to. |
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2 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 21444 | ||
Sir Pent Before we launch in that direction don't you think it would be wise to see how well it works. Can it be done effectively? Does it solve oblivious forum problems? Does it generate enough interest to make the effort work worth it? What is the gain, what is the lost? As I said earlier Tim has graciously agreed to initiate a study. Don’t you think we should study the results and then decide if this is in fact a good direction. EdB |
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3 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21449 | ||
Contrary View ................................... Dear EdB, I understand your hesitency, for this is a large undertaking. However, I also find it hard to believe that there could be anything but good things to come out of a thorough commentary of several books of the Bible. Therefore, I would say let's go ahead and do several at once. We typically have questions that come from all over anyway, so this won't be any more confusing. I understand that you aren't completely "sold" on the idea yet, but perhaps some other forum leaders are ready to jump in already. |
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4 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 21454 | ||
Sir Pent I did an offline survey of some forum regulars. If you have an E-mail address you care to share I could send you a few or I can just copy and paste and handful of responses here. Which do you prefer? EdB |
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5 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21461 | ||
Personal Note .................................. Dear EdB, I am not sure which of these options is better, since I have not read the material. If you think that the information would be helpful to the Forum as a whole (and you have permission to share it), then I would suggest posting it. If on the other hand, you feel that it is not truly important information to anyone but myself (or if you feel that privacy is important), then feel free to e-mail it to me. As for my e-mail address, I have up to this point remained rather anonymous on this forum, partly for privacy and safety, while I tested out what the forum was like. I haven't really revealed a whole lot in my user profile. This was also intentional, so that people could get to know me without preconceived ideas based on my religious background (ie. Arminianism). However, I have been here now for many months, and have developed an appreciation for this forum and so many of my colleagues here. I also feel that I have established a personality here with even some amount of respect (amazing considering the initial response to my user name). Therefore, I believe that it is time to share significantly more about myself with you all. In the very near future, therefore, I will be updating my user profile, and look forward to continuing to develop the new friendships that I have found here. |
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6 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 21478 | ||
Sir Pent Here is a brief summary of what I received back Well, Ed and everyone, either because the format of the forum doesn't lend itself very well to a book study of this sort, or because of my stupidity, or both, I'm having a most difficult time following in consecutive order even one book at a time, much less 66 all going at once. This would be bedlam. Unless there was some facility for storing each study of each book in consecutive order by books, I think we will end up with a mess -- mass confusion and much wasted effort. I just don't think the forum was designed to accommodate this sort of thing, even though the idea itself may not be all bad. I don't want to sound like a sour pickle-puss, but I think the idea should be scrapped and sent back to the drawing board for a closer look. I just read his post and I agree. I thought we were only at the initial brainstorming phase. I don't mind studying 1 Peter ... and there still will be questions. I think for this study to work, we need to have a link, so we can go to the Bible study. There would be sub links like 1:1-2 . 1:3-12 ... Tim, or whoever is leading would need to ask the web master to put in the sub link. This would give control. The leader would have to decide when to move on. The leader would have to ask open ended questions, which could be separate posts. We would need to limit the cut-and-paste of commentaries and "expert" views. I agree with you Ed. I think we should try out one before we start another. Charis and many others posted their view directly to the thread. I think the desire at this time is to try it with the work Tim is doing and observe the results. EdB |
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7 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | Sir Pent | 21526 | ||
Clarification .................................. Dear EdB, I guess, I just don't see why this would have to be so complicated. It seems to me that the present forum format is fine for doing a study of a book. A person would just write a primary note attached to each verse of interest, and people could respond to it. I don't know why there would need to be a seperate section devoted to this type of thing with sublinks and all that. Also I don't know that there needs to be any control over it. Everything that is posted would appear on the general forum, so that anything controversial would be responded to from both sides. I think it's really simpler than it may at first appear. |
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8 | Why do people lose interest and leave? | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 21528 | ||
Sir Pent You seem bent on doing this! Go for it! EdB |
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