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1 | When will you pay up? | NT general Archive 1 | EdB | 102848 | ||
Aixen7z4 Thank you for your invite to you site but I think you should have asked Lockman’s permission to advertise on their site. But I guess everyone does it, but is it right? I went also to the other address you provided that listed the forums. I see in many cases you questions of the forum and then posted the thread address that containing these answers to your website. I wonder if you should have asked Lockman's and the posters permission before you took their labors to enhance your website? Again I guess everyone does it but does that make it right? I visited your site once before but your site is so graphics heavy I stopped my browser before it finished. All those graphics on a dial up connection takes a looooong time to load. Tonight I let it finish and I find I'm completely lost. The little icons on the top bar are far to small to read and there is no hint of what they do. The bottom bar is also very confusing. May I suggest that you clean up your home page. I refuse to start clicking on icons and going places on the web where I have no idea what is going to happen. I'm very careful of viruses and such. I clicked on a few links on the side bar items. I guess the info is good but I prefer full page web pages not a bunch of info crammed into a small area. I really didn’t read much to busy looking for me. I have learned you need to incorporate white space in items you want people to read. If it is to full many people (I’m one) just won’t begin reading it. If you wan to test this look at church bulletins if they have about 50 percent white space they probably are read if the contain lees than 20 percent research shows nothing is read. There are many books written on graphic design that you may want to consult. Also the structure of your site turns me off and I didn't fully explore it. If you redesign it let me. I will be happy to revisit. As for everyone speaking for me I thank you. I was busy today and didn't have a chance to see any of this dialogue until just now. I think Nobel was joking back with me (i'm not totally sure) but in any case thanks everyone that came to my defense. Noble once again I think you for your invite to your web site however I guess I ask as did Searcher56 is this appropriate way to get people to your site? EdB |
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2 | Isn't this like church? | NT general Archive 1 | Aixen7z4 | 102861 | ||
This is wonderful. It feels like church, and I am overwhelmed. If I was younger and less experienced I would think I needed another church. But I have learned. That’s the way it is. If I was not a believer, I do believe that I would find this unbelievable. If there is anyone reading this who is shocked and disappointed in all this, I pray that you read on and take courage. If you are one of those who do not feel it, then please carry on as usual. It is ironic that I recently started a thread on this forum asking for ideas for handling insults. I guess this is the response, a practical lesson. Pity is I have to handle it before I have had a chance to learn. I guess it’s like they say in church: “Don’t pray for patience because what you are really asking for is tribulation. You know, ‘tribulation worketh patience’”. So, let tribulation have its perfect work. I suppose this is of the Lord. So let it be. I did want to learn something. And I do need to learn. What gives a human being the boldness to intrude on a conversation with his pronouncement that it is inappropriate? I have seen it so often, but it seems I can never understand. Is it the understanding that man is to have dominion? Is it the spirit that leads a man to take command of all he sees? Does he assume he has been given command? Or has he? I still ask, “Was that a moving of the Holy Spirit?” I am beginning to think it was. They say God works in a mysterious way. And some of us are blind to all of this, and all we know is love. And sometimes our actions are inappropriate, and our benefactors are there to correct us. But we would like to learn from our mistakes. What was inappropriate? (I am tempted to cut and paste the spark here, that set off all this fireworks). 1. It was inappropriate. Period. Because Brother A said so. 2. It was inappropriate because the post was demeaning. And condescending. Brother B had thought so. 3. It was inappropriate because it constituted an advertisement. But this last was the unkindest cut of all, coming from the one the post had been addressed to. And the post had included an invitation to my house. The response, if I understand it, is that he does not like my house. But first of all, it was inappropriate to invite him to my house while we were meeting at Brother L’s house. And I was trying to practice hospitality. But he does not like my house. I should fix up my house before I invite him back. Isn’t this like church? I wonder, if Jesus was there, what he would say. Jesus lives at my house. |
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3 | Isn't this like church? | NT general Archive 1 | EdB | 102868 | ||
Aixen7z4 Forgive me if I insulted you. I was offering what I thought was constructive criticism about your site. I know now that it probably appeared very ungracious and was totally uncalled for. I apologize to you. Let me explain what I thought I was doing. Putting it back to you analogy. You invited me to you home and I started to go but found the way so rock strewn I turned back. Once again you invited and this time I pushed through. Once I got there I found your home very uninviting. Therefore when you offered me water I said no thanks, when you offered me to sit down I said I would rather stand and when you offered me food I said I was full. I then left and you wondered why. Now I could have kept my mouth shut and said nothing or I could be honest and tell you what I thought. Being a brother in the Lord I thought I could help you so I told you what I observed. I overstepped my welcome and I unintentionally insulted you, I now ask for your forgiveness. EdB |
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4 | Isn't this like church? | NT general Archive 1 | Aixen7z4 | 102873 | ||
My brother, I understand. I have been in the church a long time, and I understand. I once invited a brother to my house, and the first thing out of his mouth was to point out a crack in my ceiling. I once had a sister suggest a college I could go to. That was before she found out I was a professor at the university. And it was not after she had given me a chance to read or write, or even speak. That is the way it is. I understand, but I keep hoping we will learn. At the risk of sounding condescending I will even speak. Jesus sent out his disciples and he told them (Luke 10:8) “Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you”. I learned from that that it is not his will that we criticize the home that welcomes us. Eat what is set before you. I take that to mean that you accept the layout of the rooms, and the color of the carpet and even the meat that you don’t like best. Of course, if you are an architect or a home decorator, or a chef, and if your host asks your opinion, then you give your criticisms. I do not say this is good manners, I say we should do it because that’s what Jesus said. Eat quietly. What if the house or the meal is against your religion? Paul speaks. 1 Corinthians 10:25. “Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake”. And now I hope I do not earn the fame or infamy of condescension, but I assumed that people knew these things. I happen to like my site a lot. It may shock you to know that I think it is the best on the Internet. But that’s the way it can be with a man’s home. He likes it because he knows where to find what he needs. Anyone entering it is at a loss and must make himself at home, learning bit by bit. Criticism I welcome because I want my visitors to feel welcome, but we must also be wise, and kind. I visit many sites I do not like. Some have things that I consider wrong. When I stay long, and feel at home, I may even offer a suggestion. For example, I would even donate an index to this site. But mostly I have learned to “take forth the precious from the vile” and move on. Since you loved me enough to offer some advice, can I in turn offer you some? Let us move on. Your apology is accepted an on this matter no more needs to be said. In a strange way I feel all this is related to the topic of practical sanctification, to which I hope we can return. |
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5 | Isn't this like church? | NT general Archive 1 | EdB | 102875 | ||
Done! EdB |
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