I'm interested in finding out what we can do to help TheNET grow faster both in terms of numbers of members and the number of people interacting online at the same time.
On average we see 7 new members every day and about 8 online at once.
Is there something we should change or do that we aren't doing now?
Is there something we are doing that we should stop doing?
New members or visitors, what are your first impressions of TheNET?
Addressing more mature Christians who are in clear error in deed needs to be done. The Bible is clear on this. Jesus and Paul set great examples regarding this. Even this was done in love.
Regarding Catholocism, I have many concerns relating to their deeper beliefs and even their marching orders regarding Protestants that most are unaware of. Even with that insight, limited as it may be, I am not ready to call Catholics evil. At the same time I cannot defend it. This is not fence sitting, though it appears that way. I have not come to a place of conviction regarding your issue with the Catholic church. My approach is to present Jesus to all who will hear. I then trust the Holy Spirit to call people out of false systems, for the truth will set them free.
If my unwillingness to condemn them is cause for you to separate from me, then that is a choice you will have to make. I hope not. I believe that we can agree to disagree on this, but I recognize that this is a core issue with you.
May i suggest one more thing. Not I, for I will not defend it, but when someone defends the Catholic church address the defense in love with Scripture to help the one you feel is confused to be set free.
Lastly, my view of the Catholic church will neither get me into heaven or keep me from it.
Dear Greg; If I am repeating what someone else has said, I haven't had the chance to read all the replies; but when I signed up I stumbled across the site through another site. At first when I signed up I did not know much and I stumbled around and learned as it went. I think what would be really great is to have a group of people as a welcoming committee so to speak. I can not always tell when someone is new. So if we had a select group of people who could monitor for new people and maybe take the time to read their info and hook them up with someone they might have in common, and give them info on what groups they might be interested in. I thought it was awseome when you came onto my page and welcomed me. It really kept me coming back. In Christian Love.
I would like to add one other thing; When I have posted a question or looked for help. Often times I get scripture verses for an answer. Not that I don't want to learn the scripture, I do. However if those who want to post scriptures for their answers; I think it would be more effective to direct them to the areas of the Bible that deal with that. I say this because if just posting scripture, it takes the element of personal love for each other out of the picture. I believe the most powerful way to witness to the Lord is to share our Love of the Lord and our Love for our brothers and sisters in Christ. I know this sounds simple; however these have been the kind of persons I have been drawn to, and have been an inspiration to me. They have given me scripture, but they also display true Christian Love.
Indeed Mandy for through His love He conquers the world! And HE is love thus says the Word.
Scripture is so needed for in it is truth and victory! To use scripture you can resist the enemy and you can proclaim your victory and it has power for it is the living Word!
It is the only way to comfort people and to encourage them and give the one and only true Word!
How wonderful to share the love of Christ with others!
As a moderator and greeter here on TheNET, I have a few more ideas after reading some of the responses.
...Perhaps we should also have a group of follow up moderators
...Page design moderators
...Volunteers who can handle the technical stuff.
~So far I have a link for the bible study,
...how about a link for the womens group (The men's group for Joe-Gil).
...a link for the chat as a lot of people don't even know that there is one.
...It would be helpful to have other links accessible as well, many people may feel reserved and perhaps overwhelmed to jump into such a big family.
These are just a few thoughts. Let us continue to lift each other up in prayer. The purpose here is to treat others as we want to be treated, and to Love others as God Loves us. We must continue to live out of the overflow of God's Love.
Hi Greg
Interesting to see the contributions here on this forum!
As a person who received All about God emails long before the site and was introduce to this site, there was just one thing in my heart, wow, Thank you Lord now we can share the gospel and the love of God with a whole bunch of people all over the world.
Technically I am not that up to date with the latest technology and all i would like to see changed is how we can limit the use of MB when we linked to the Net. If it can be done and how, I dont know, but that is my main complain at this stage technically.
This site is All about God - what HE has done for us, why He has done it, what He has in store for us, what He wants to bless us with, how we can deal with terrible times in our lives, where is God when we need Him,what is dream for us, and the best that He is coming soon to lift us to the heavens to stay for eternity!
What is it about furthermore? - here we warn people about the stealing, destroying, and killing of the enemy, making them aware if needed of the works of the evil one, for surely he is here to try and ruin what God has established.
And we have this site to interact with people needing prayer, teaching by the Word fo God , the Bible and even through the All about God site's very intellectual, inspiring and word funded articles, encouragement and above all sharing the love of our lover of our soul Jesus Christ with others!!
There is so much hurt in this world and so many people doesn't have the boldness to seek help when needed from their local people but here they become family and they tend to grow in a trustworthy position with people and sharing their inmost secrets and by doing that we can pray for each other and rely on Gods wisdom to help them in their situations.
Everything we do must be to the honour and glory of God so that we do not boast.
I just love our family here and if I can do this full time as a ministry i will surely do it, for showing Gods love throughout the earth is such a privilege.
Helping the Net grow doesn't always mean in numbers, that is always an advantage, for the more we can reach and share the Gospel, the better, but helping this site grow spiritually must be the main and ultimate point of view.
Thank you, Nienie. I so appreciate your heart for the Lord and for the other precious people here.
I agree that internet bandwidth is a problem. All the images, videos and additions like the chatbox and picture viewers tend to make it load slow. I wonder if we need to remove some things from the MAIN page to make it load faster. What do you guys think?