Laity Online: Where you are the preacher.

< February 2006 >
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28

Rules of Conduct

It would seem sensible to lay down a few guidelines as to what the administrative team find acceptable and what they do not.

Posts

When posting an article in any of the available pulpits on this site we expect the message to be broadly related to the subject matter.

Purely political or commercial posts are not acceptable and adverts or so called affiliate links are not to be posted. Despite the minimal adverts that aim to pay some of the costs here we are not a commercial site.

Subject matter should be generally suitable for the whole family. What you post might be read by your mum, grandma, little sister, spouse or vicar so don't type anything that you might be ashamed to show such people.

Comments

Comments should follow the guidelines laid out for posts.

When commenting try to make your point in a positive and non threatening manor. If possible try to find something encouraging to say. If you do have any criticism to make try to make it in a constructive manor.

No spam.

No hate, "flames" or personal attacks.

Prophesy

As a public pulpit we expect that there might be those who wish to publish prophetic messages. We trust those that publish them to be publishing prophetic words that they themselves have received rather than rehashing the latest buzz from a mailing list.

We expect those that publish and those that read to spend a few moments testing such messages against the Word of God.

As readers we are required to exercise descernment and not accept every message without question.

On the other hand it is perfectly acceptable to say "I feel that God might be saying ..." and even if you are unsure it is better to speak up and risk blessing and encouraging others than to not. How will you know if it is God or man speaking if you do not first share what you have been given?

Dreams and Visions

God does speak in dreams and visions and it would be normal for a person moving in the gifts of the spirit to receive such communications.

We ask that those who have received such message spend time before God seeking an understanding and interpretation before sharing the dream or vision.

At Laity Online we recomend that you test and consider everything you read (as is advised in the Bible). We are sure that there will be many nuggets of spiritual goodness but there is also likely to be quanitities of human thoughts and even a few shards of outright falsehood and failing. This is the nature of being human. This is a great oportunity for you to hone your skills at decernment.

Remember this basic truth: The Bible says that God will not contradict himself. It follows, therefore, that as the Bible is God's Word every truth from him will be in agreement with what he has already said.

We encurage you to ask questions in a civil and kind way, remembering that we were all novices once. You, me and every one else will fail during our lives. Here (where you are encuraged to use and test out the gifts you have been given) it is quite likely we will all stumble and fall quite often. What set's us aside is not failure (or lack thereof) but the gentleness with which we help each other to stand up and try again. We are all learning to walk.

This site is free to use. We hope it will always be a free site where we are all the minister, the paster and the reader. We no longer show adverts.

UK: god blog - sermons by Christ's bloggers

Popular Topics

Get the All Members Soap Box your way.

Rules of Conduct

Posts

Comments

Prophesy

Dreams and Visions