I don't think that is a great idea myself.I wrote about it in a blog awhile back. Read here http://www.mychurch.org/blog/465069/To-the-Youth-of-MC-regarding-recent-Format-Changes

My reasoning would apply to adults as well. :-) Blessings.

Joyful Servant, are you implying I'm acting like a child? I resemble that remark. ;-)

Seriously, I respectfully disagree, ma'am. I don't think it's going to clutter up anything, because people are going to post whatever they want to share with their friends, and if they want to post a prayer, people will see the prayer, and if they want to post their status, people will see that.

Pastor Bob's a big baby. lol

I'm sorry. I'm tired and I feel like bugging someone, and you were here. lol

Lara,

That's okay. Keep commenting and keep this blog on the "Explore" page so we can keep bugging My Church UNTIL THEY BRING THE MEMOS BACK! LOL.

How late is it in New Brunswick, anyway? Isn't it your bedtime?

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HAHAHA....your so funny Lara....

Go to bed!

Joyful Servant and Stevie Bee, I know, what kind of pastor am I to propose abuse of prayer. But I really don't see that as the result of my proposal. If somebody uses the prayer posting option to post a memo, that does nothing to take away from a person also using it to post a prayer. You're only going to read the postings of your friends, anyway.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful toward prayer, I'm just being a little disrespectful to the My Church establishment who control who we communicate on this site. 

But all the teasing aside, I am still grateful to MyChurch for providing this free website. It has enriched my life, including my prayer life, immeasurably. And that's a memo.

Here are my thoughts, if you want to leave a memo, then blog it, because as Pastor Bob just noted above, the only people that will see the posting, whether, as a memo, prayer or blog.. will be those on your friend list.

Why complain about it? If you want to affect change, and make your voice heard, then become a paid user. Since, the paid users are the ones footing the bill for us free users being able to even post here in the first place.

But why complain about it? All you do, when you complain is stir up discontent within your own hearts, and in the hearts reading your complaint.

Moses had to contend with complaints, and look at the results back then.

Gary Robison,

Yes, sir. I stand rebuked.

I do like the memos but I have to say I'd prefer keeping the prayers really just that...In reference to Stevie's comment, I am the one that posted the prayer for our daughter, Bonnie...and as an aside, we're still stuck in the "What do we do" mode.  And PLEASE, PLEASE help us pray, y'all! 
But, I LOVE the memos...The way I see it, we can put a prayer in the memo, but not vice-versa! 

Think I'm gonna go cry now!

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Pastor Bob, I just read Stevie's blog rebuking you .... (JUST KIDDING!!)

But seriously, since you feel strongly about bringing back the memos here, there is something very constructive you can do! (I posted this there, am also gonna post it here.)

There is a tiny link at the bottom of THIS page ("About"). If you click it, you will see a page titled "About MyChurch.org", with another link - "Contact Us". Click THAT and you can submit your petition (suggest changes) DIRECTLY to MyChurch decision makers! Go for it! And feel free to tell others about it also!

:) :) :)  and my mom would be saying, "Brenda Kay, you don't feel that way!"  :) :) :)

LOL!  Yep, Lara... still a kid at heart...

I'm not the rebellious type, unless it's really something big to rebel about, then I can rebel with the best rebelliours{?} Is that even a word?
I think I'm starting to be rebellious about this whole rebellious thing!!!! agh

Marcella,

I am part of a church. I'm a member of First Baptist Church, Rincon, Georgia. We have 75 members using My Church. But we're just not an "upgraded" church. Thanks.

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Marcella,

That's okay; now your comment makes more sense to me.

God bless you!

Hi Stevie,

No, I was not offended. I knew I was a bit off the wall with my proposal. Just trying to stir things up a bit and get something done. :-)

Oh, and I sent you a friend request.

Joey,

How did you know I was a hippie? Ha! Ha! Yes, I had long hair, and I led a school protest against the hair code at my high school that eventually got the hair code dropped after I graduated in 1976, but by then hair styles got shorter, anyway. So now you know some of my past. LOL.

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haha funny..umm good idea! BUT
if no one got on anymore how do u kno if they put status back on??
i think its a good idea! Me and my friends acually wrote a long detailed E-Mail to the MyChurch Group about when they took the box away that shows who was online! two days later it was up and runnig! we didnt critisize their work we complimented it and then gave some suggestions! mayb

i will not get on mychurch but check it once a week to see if its up and runnig yet

another brilliant idea is to bring one of the chat systems to mychurch! u kno, like the one on facebook!

Stevie,

That is really funny. My beard would be white were it not for a hair color product called "Just For Men." Ha! Now you know more of my secrets.

Stevie,

That story is hilarious! I know I had to learn that when I first put on my "Just for Men," that at first it doesn't look any darker, but after about an hour it looks quite dark. They say to put it on for 5 minutes and wash out, but I've learn to do about 2-3 minutes and wash it out. Then I've got a "Touch of Gray." Funny thing is, if I did nothing I would have brown hair with a touch of gray on my head, but I would have a white beard.

Oh, did I tell you why I grew the beard? I do dramatic monologue sermons where I tell Biblical stories in the first person, such as portraying the shepherd or wise man telling the Christmas story.

but PB, hair can be rebellion....

and besides... rebellion is ridiculous..

But I ask this, are we taught as Christians.... do the ends justify the means?

We have a free republic, because of rebellion.

Rebellion only comes from Satan, as he is the father of rebellion.

Gary,

Don't take the scripture out of context. 1 Samuel 15:22 talks about the importance of obeying the Lord, and the following verse that you quoted, verse 23, is talking about rebellion against the Lord, not rebellion against a tyrant king. If you applied this verse to any kind of rebellion, you could logically say that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was sinful to rebel against the rule of Adolf Hitler.

Bob, Gary will say that.

Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer in rebellion? Or was he just opposing Hitler?

But as to your first comment from above, does the Lord condone rebellion, anywhere in the Bible? 

Sure we can be in opposition against evil. But rebellion?

Here is one that *as you say* is not taken out of context...

Gary,

That's a better verse on the subject of rebellion.

This whole discussion turns on how one uses and defines the word "rebellion." I am using it in the general sense of opposition to authority. You are using the word in a more strict sense of opposition to God-ordained authority, as it is clearly used in Proverbs. So in fact, we don't disagree, we're just using a word differently.

like which witch is which??

See, Pastor Bob? 
Now you forgot to be a rebel.  Don't you feel all better?    These nuts will make you forget what you wrote every time.

lol