Unity

"The scriptures will never keep together in union and fellowship members not in the spirit of the scriptures, which spirit is love, peace, unity, forebearance, and cheerful obedience. This is the spirit of the great Head of the body. I blush for my fellows, who hold up the Bible as the bond of union yet make their opinions of it tests of fellowship; who plead for the union of all Christians; yet refuse fellowship with such as dissent from their notions. Such antisectarian-sectarians are doing more mischief to the cause and advancement of truth, the unity of Christians, and the salvation of the world than all the skeptics in the world. In fact, they create skeptics."

-Barton W. Stone,
"Remarks", Christian Messenger
August 1835, p 180

Hear Rick Atchley on this subject here:
RHCC Sermons Online
scroll down to March 1, 2006 and pick your format

Grrrr.....

I had the joy today of canceling our AOL account. Talk about a royal pain. They can't just say "okay" and do it for you, you have to listen to them extol the virtues of AOL over all other services, then they want you to explain in detail why you are choosing to close the account (I'm sure in the hopes of refuting each reason set forth). Then there was the "let me give you a free month then you can call back and cancel" line. Eventually I told him that we'd had a lot of good years of service from AOL but he was making it so that I was having nothing but bad feelings towards AOL. That seemed to work.

These tactics must work on some people, else AOL (and other companies) would not use them. However, it does not make me feel good about having done business with them for years.