Comments
I welcome your comments. If you have questions, find mistakes, contradictions,
or inaccuracies, telling me about them is greatly appreciated. If
you have suggestions for anything from improvement of the layout to ideas
for new articles, I would like to hear them. If you wish to pass
me a link to a news article, please send it. And it you have questions
about Salvation, I
welcome them. Unfortunately I'm not a robot and I can't answer all
email and give many around the world the attention they would like.
If you are not a Christian, none of the policy on the rest of this page
applies to you. You have dipolmatic immunity. I will help you
in any way I can. However, my primary purpose is to present the truth
about Salvation.
However, for Christians, the social code that demands separation from
the world is very complex. I will hold you to those standards if
you deal with me. I expect you to live up to the Royal Family honor
code. If you don't know what that is, I have taken the time to point
out some of the ways that honor code applies to email. This may give
you the freedom to avoid your legalistic, or parochial, hangups and send
me legitimate email. And it may help you understand why your email
received no answer. In all honesty, I enjoy getting your email because
it gives me insight in providing a better product. But I dislike
answering email because it wastes my time.
Fortunately the Holy Spirit is always available to answer any of our
questions. Unfortunately, Christians aren't perfect. If you
catch obvious mistakes in my work, I appreciate knowing about them. Otherwise,
hundreds of readers may stumble over the same problem. Pointing out
a mistake in a written article is not the same as maligning the author.
Objective criticism of a document does not impugn the author. This
is important to know because maligning a pastor can result in getting his
discipline, which is much worse than for the ordinary Christian.
If you can't find the information you are seeking on my site, please
select Home at the top of the page. The Document Index contains a
list of all my published documents except for news articles. The
search option can be used to find news articles. The links at the
top of each page are designed to answer most questions about this ministry.
If you still have trouble finding something you think I might have, I don't
mind helping you find it.
Email Policy
1. The pastor's time is to be dedicated to the ministry of the Word
and not serving tables (Acts
6:1-4). Serving tables is administrative work that
is analogous to answering email.
2. Questions that advocate a different doctrine or that demonstrate
a morbid interest in controversial questions, speculation, and disputes
about words (1
Timothy 6:3-5; 2 Timothy 2:23) are a waste of time and will
not be answered.
a. Advocating a different doctrine includes
pushing apostate beliefs.
b. My doctrine is compatible with the epistles
to the Church, Chafer's Systematic Theology and the teaching of R. B. Thieme,
Jr.
c. Controversial questions include attempts
to debate.
3. Requests for counseling will be denied. The Holy Spirit
is our counselor (John
14:26; 1 John 2:27).
4. Any attempt to subvert the authority of the local pastor will
be rejected (Acts
20:28; Ephesians 4:11-12; 1 Timothy 2:12). All Christians
have a Right Pastor and are supposed to be under his (not her) authority.
The local pastor (who may be on the Internet), who is the authority over
the individual Christian, should be consulted when appropriate. I
will not act as a substitue for him.
5. Email that violates the standards of Marriage, morality, the
laws of the land, or honesty will rejected (Ephesians
5:3-5).
6. Email from women that attempts to subvert the authority of
the husband will be rejected (Ephesians
5:22; Colossians 3:18).
7. Email from children that attempts to subvert the authority
of parents or teachers will be rejected (Proverbs
6:20; 23:22; Ephesians 6:1; Colossians 3:20).
8. Email from people under the power of demons will be rejected
(1
Timothy 4:1).
9. Attempts to engage in worldy chat or gossip will be rejected
(2
Timothy 2:15-16).
10. I appreciate it if you sign your email, although anonymous questions
are legitimate. Many times I don't bother to read anonymous email.
If you do sign your email, your privacy will be protected.
11. I don't think the requirement for women to be quiet in Church (1
Timothy 2:11; 1 Corinthians 14:34-35) extends to email.
Although women don't have a right to try to straighten the pastor out,
they are allowed to send in legitimate comments or questions.
12. Email prayer requests may be legitimate, but the rules for legitimate
prayer are also quite complex.
13. Requests for information about other pastors are out of scope and
will be rejected (Romans
9:21).
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