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View Poll Results: How have the forums changed you?
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I was UC, and am more UC now than ever!
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I was lib, and am more lib than ever!
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I was lib, and prayed through to ultra con! Amen!
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I was ultra con, and I went charismatic! or baptiscostal!
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I was a three stepper, and after I did the two step, I became a one stepper!
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I was a one stepper, and am now a three stepper!
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I was sane, and am now insane!
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11-11-2008, 10:04 PM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
None of the choices fit me either. I'd say a liberal moderate perhaps 
The forum hasn't changed any beliefs but I've learned new aspects of being apostolic. I'd never heard of one stepper/three stepper. Had no idea what the pci believed.
I think I have more confidence leaning liberal.
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11-11-2008, 10:07 PM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
I was a moderate conservative... and now I am conservatively moderate!
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11-11-2008, 10:56 PM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
I'm not into the whole labeling thing. And as I suspected people are people no matter their belief system. The humaness (not sure that's a word) comes out in all of us sooner or later. It is hard for me to believe that this christiam forum is any different from any chat room. JMO. This forum has not changed me at all. I do count it all joy though when someone trust enough to come to everyone here asking for prayer when there is a need. There seems to be a lot of praying people here.
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11-12-2008, 03:04 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
I don't think the forum has changed my belief system- It has made me more aware of the differences that we have in the Apostolic world. The forum has made me search the scriptures and reaffirm and define what I believe. It has opened up some interesting conversations between my husband and I on our beliefs.
I really enjoy reading the different view points that the members bring to the forum.
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11-12-2008, 05:22 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
Wow, I am not even close to any of those choices. But, I do think more. I have been horrified, overjoyed, and learned some things about myself I didn't know.
I think I have always been a little insane, but I have learned I am not alone.
And I pray a lot for people I have never met, and some I have met as well.
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11-12-2008, 06:17 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
Sadly I have wintessed the change of some and not for the better.
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11-12-2008, 08:03 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
I was an ultra con. I started on forums back in 1996 or so. The first one was "Higher-Fire". I and a few other cons caused a ruckus and ended up leaving the list and starting our own. I remember saying that I didn't want anyone who wasn't a three-stepper on the list, but the guy who was putting the thing together wanted to allow one-steppers (I think for conversations sake). It was a pretty successful list at the time. I helped moderate that list until I had a sudden revelation in my prayer closet that changed me forever. That was before FCF. I left the list I had been on without any explanation because I had gone from ultra-con to lib literally overnight. I had no way to exlpain my actions except that I had a revelation and I knew they wouldn't believe me or they would think I was joking. I wrote a post called "My Road to Damascus Experience" and I left. Then I joined Pentecostal Standards and a couple other lists. Newman was on that list and I first heard about FCF from her. The rest has been history.  I don't think anyone here knows me from my ultra-con days. BOOMM did....we were on Higher Fire together....is he still around? Anyway, by the time I got onto FCF I was a lib.....working my way from living ultra-con to how to live what was going on in my brain. Also, I was really struggling because these people from our church had sued and I was going through a really hard time. When we left, I was suffering from PTSD. I wasn't diagnosed, but I remember being very jerky in my movements, real jumpy about everything. We've been gone going on four years, my system is finally calming down more and more all the time. Anyway, I don't have much desire to debate anymore. I just like to be around good Christian people and enjoy it.
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11-12-2008, 08:06 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
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Originally Posted by ILG
I was an ultra con. I started on forums back in 1996 or so. The first one was "Higher-Fire". I and a few other cons caused a ruckus and ended up leaving the list and starting our own. I remember saying that I didn't want anyone who wasn't a three-stepper on the list, but the guy who was putting the thing together wanted to allow one-steppers (I think for conversations sake). It was a pretty successful list at the time. I helped moderate that list until I had a sudden revelation in my prayer closet that changed me forever. That was before FCF. I left the list I had been on without any explanation because I had gone from ultra-con to lib literally overnight. I had no way to exlpain my actions except that I had a revelation and I knew they wouldn't believe me or they would think I was joking. I wrote a post called "My Road to Damascus Experience" and I left. Then I joined Pentecostal Standards and a couple other lists. Newman was on that list and I first heard about FCF from her. The rest has been history. I don't think anyone here knows me from my ultra-con days. BOOMM did....we were on Higher Fire together....is he still around? Anyway, by the time I got onto FCF I was a lib.....working my way from living ultra-con to how to live what was going on in my brain. Also, I was really struggling because these people from our church had sued and I was going through a really hard time. When we left, I was suffering from PTSD. I wasn't diagnosed, but I remember being very jerky in my movements, real jumpy about everything. We've been gone going on four years, my system is finally calming down more and more all the time. Anyway, I don't have much desire to debate anymore. I just like to be around good Christian people and enjoy it. |
I didn't know there were forums in 1996! I don't even know if we had the internet back then. You were a progressive little gal!!!
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11-12-2008, 08:16 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
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I didn't know there were forums in 1996! I don't even know if we had the internet back then. You were a progressive little gal!!!
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Ironically, I was not progressive at all! My husband was progressive. This was back in the days that I was secretly studying the Amish! I started on that list and then my husband told me "You need a computer!" And a guy at church said "You need a desk!" and between the two of them, they set me up and I couldn't resist the pull of debating the issues. So it took about 5 years before I had a sudden revelation. From the Higher-Fire archives, it looks like they started back in 1995.
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11-12-2008, 08:32 AM
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Re: How have the forums changed you?
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Sadly I have wintessed the change of some and not for the better.
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That is the truth, and the main reason I have pulled back from this forum some, after being very active on FCF and NFCF.
It is too painful to watch the unraveling of people's convictions.
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