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Austen, who loves pink bedrooms…
Mom of Four, aspiring marathon runner…
Ivan the Terrible, 38 years wed…
And Major Vic, blogging from Russia!
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Lynn:
Thanks, I hated being ‘irregular!’
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Well I guess I succeeded in lowering the standards. It seems they’re letting anybody in now.
I’ll be a good welcoming neighbor.
Welcome aboard Igor, Prolific Momma, Colonel and The one from Texas. You’ll find the atmosphere quite congenial.
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Welcome one and all. I think I would love to have drill introduce all these people with his unique humor. I can feel the laughter coming already. I’m sure he could find a unique spin on all of us regulars.
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Thanks META and KI,
Actually I’ve been very active here and on the previous WorldMagBlog. I just was never able to get ‘regularized.’
I am quite familiar with the cast of characters that inhabit this space, and proud to be among them.
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Ivan, good to see you are finally regular.
Mom of Four, go for it! Marathons are quite the accomplishment, and welcome.
Austen, haven’t I seen a posting or two from you before? Welcome to the real world!
Major Vic, Go Salvation Army! Incredible help in time of need, and we enjoyed serving with your coworkers over in Italia. Welcome and I hope we hear much from you and what is happening around the world.
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Welcome aboard y’all. I know a couple of you have been here a long time. Just kinda incognito.
I’m not surprised that Ivan is a PCA pastor. Either that, or Muslim, by the beard. I ruled Muslim out by his posts. So, like TJ, a PCA pastor. I may be the only Baptist on this blog. At least the only one to admit it.
Maj. Vic. I was born in Spartanburg too, probably a long time before you. I also lived there a couple of years from 1962-1964. Sometimes my wife goes there to shop.
Austin, when we visited Atlanta a couple of years ago, we stayed in Marietta. We went from our hotel to a shopping center across the street. On the way back, we took a short cut that involved going up a small (to me) embankment. I made it up easily, but Elvera couldn’t make it. So, I gave her my hand to help her up. As we were walking down the street, people in cars smiled, a couple of horns & friendly waves. It took me a couple of minutes to realize that they were amused to see this old couple walking down the street holding hands. A trivial thing I’ll always remember about Marietta.
I do not. NO, I do not believe momoffour is only 26. I know a girl (She was a girl at the time.) who ran in the Marine Corps marithon. Her only ambition was to finish it. She did.
I hope you are OK now and no reprecussions from your miscarriage.
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Austen, if you know how to act like a middle schooler, you’ll fit right in here with the rest of us reprobates.
I look forward to Major Vic telling us what things are like in Russia.
Ivan we all know. Regularity is a good thing.
MomofFour, you will run the marathon! You already have a cheering section. Hope you feel better.
Chas, I’m attend the Baptist Church. You are not alone.
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Welcome Austen, Ivan, Momoffour and Major Vic! I hope you all feel as welcome as I was made to feel around this blog at my “debut” yesterday.
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Chas, woops, did I do my math wrong? I’m 31. My previous goal was to run a marathon before I turned 30, but with a bunch of little ones underhand…
Thanks for the well-wishes. I am feeling better. Today was a bit of a bitter-sweet day, as I prepared a meal for a dear friend who just had a baby. But I rejoice with the life He created for them. And I know the life He created in me, though gone from me now, had a purpose.
ps–I’m Baptist too, Southern at that!
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I tried to welcome KLasko yesterday, but got one of those “you must be logged in to comment” messages after I wrote my message and tried to post. So . . . welcome all of you, old and new, including KLasko.
I’m a former Baptist, so I know how to give the right hand of fellowship….
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Welcome all from another Baptist. As a baptist I wondering do I need to bring a casserole.
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Yes indeed KBells! Make sure its extra cheesy and creamy… I’m having a hard time convincing myself to go to bed, so I could enjoy a virtual comfort meal right now!
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Pssst, Chas,
TJ is a pastor in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP) church, though it is virtually identical (except for origin) to the PCA. There are a few ARP churches in your area, plus Bonclarken in Flat Rock is our conference center.
He did use to be Baptist, though!
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This is my first attempt at digital cooking. Does this look like a casserole? I didn’t know how to make the smoke., it is cold and will have to be warmed up.
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I must have done something right! Now Baptists are coming out of the woodwork. Plus, we have a couple of backslidden Baptists also.
Cameron, I knew the difference, I just wasn’t thinking. Seems there are almost as many Presbyterians as Baptists. Which group used go be “Southern Presbyterian”? The SBC once briefly considered changing it’s name, because we’re national now, but I don’t think they could agree on anything else.
Momoffout, I’m glad you are 31. Five years doesn’t seem much difference, but 26 is just one year older than my granddaughtwe, who is working on her second, BTW.
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Welcome to all the new (old) regulars! Some of you have been on here longer than I have!
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I’m not sure if I count as a Baptist or former Baptist right now. I had been Baptist for years when I met and married my husband, a Presbyterian. The last Presbyterian church I was officially a member of was in Michigan, and after the mandatory year of inactivity before I could be removed from the rolls, I told them to go ahead because we obviously weren’t moving back. Now we attend a Baptist church (long story, I’ve told it before), but my husband still considers himself very much a Presbyterian pastor, just one without a church right now. And since we can both serve in this church without becoming official members, I haven’t seen a need to join.
#14 KBells, it looks like a casserole of vanilla pudding. I’ll hope it’s actually rice pudding, made the old-fashioned way instead of just mixing cooked rice in with vanilla pudding. Most of my casseroles are much lumpier/bumpier than that.
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Wow – making a digital casserole is almost as much work as a real one.
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Thanks for the welcome, all! And, Chas, as many things as I’ve heard said about Marietta, I don’t think I’ve ever heard called a friendly city – although that may just be the side of town I live on…;)
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Chas, when I was in college, a good friend of mine (who’s now a Baptist minister, incidentally) commented to me that his pastor at that time (Baptist) used to be a Presbyterian. I quipped, “Yeah, before he backslid.”
Nice to see great minds thinking alike.
Here’s a suggestion for you, btw: when Cameron and I come to Bonclarken in June for the ARP’s General Synod, why don’t we find a way of meeting up somehow (coffee or something)? You could even sit in on a meeting as a visitor. Who knows, maybe you could catch up on your sleep.
The Southern Presbyterian church is now officially part of the mainline Presbyterian church (the PCUSA). The northern and southern Presbyterians split back in the mid-1800’s primary over the issue of slavery. In 1983, they merged again to form the PCUSA. However, many of the more conservative southern Presbyterian churches had already pulled out of the denomination in 1973 to form the PCA, where they remain to this day. So, to answer your question, some of the old southern Presbyterians are in the PCA, while some stayed to later form the PCUSA. I suspect some (very few) might have become independent, while some joined other denominations (the ARP and the EPC, for instance).
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Oh, I love Bonclarken! I used to go to piano competitions there when I was in elementary school, and I thought it was so beautiful that I colored and painted dozens of pictures of it.
So, the long and the short of it is, Chas, you should take him up on that coffee offer.
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Thanks for the props, Austen! If you would like to meet in Hendersonville, instead, my wife recommended Black Bear coffee.
I hear the pastorate at the Reformation ARP Church (in Hendersonville) is currently open. Maybe I should apply and then seek out Chas as a member. Then he can be one of those “backslidden Baptists.”
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Welcome, all,nice to see us growing in regularity. (Although some might argue that our numbers are increasing, but our regularity is still in question.) Sounds like a personal problem to me.
Chas, I’m in the ranks of the Baptists too.
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Ah Chas, nearly all other groups form their ranks mostly by former Baptists. There seem to be more former Baptists than lifelong Presbyterians in the PCA, for instance. But I hear Jehovah’w witnesses have more former Baptists than anything else, too. So you’re good at rearing ‘em, but not necessarily at keeping ‘em. (Six out of seven in my family are still Baptist, though–one is Reformed Baptist and will probably eventually be Presbyterian, once she and her husband get over their problems with infant baptism.)
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TJ, I have thought of that myself. I checked my calendar and June is almost completely free. Let me know when you will be in the area and we can get together somehow. I think you have my e-mail address, if not, let me know and we can arrange something.
I have been by Bonclarken often, our Lions had a speaker from there once, but I’ve never been there.
Cheryl D. A lot of Jehovah’s Witnesses may claim to have been Baptist, but I doubt that one who was raised in a Baptist church would be comfortable there. OTOH, I have a niece (wife’s niece actually) who was raised Baptist but married a Presbyterian, now she is one. She says, “Baptists make great Presbyterians.” Some are Baptist because their parents were, some by choice. My parents were nothing, but were saved in and became Pentecostal (Church of God). I went to a Methodist church and SS as a teen because Rachael Newton went there, but I was nothing. At age 23, I was saved and joined the Baptist church because I mostly believe the way they do.
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Cheryl D., I believe that every Christian eventually gets over their “problems” with infant baptism (though I prefer the term household baptism or covenant baptism). The problem is that many don’t do so until they get to heaven…
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Chas, there is actually a group on Facebook called “Baptists make the best Presbyterians.” At any rate, I suspect that one can find lots of former “Protestants” of all stripes in the ranks of the JWs. Those who have not been grounded in solid teaching and are only nominally Christian are ripe for such a deceptive harvester. Actually, though, I’ve heard that JWs are actually dwindling in number in this country, though worldwide they are growing, particularly in Latin America.
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