Well said, but oh so meaningless in today's "Church". As I'm sure you know, the church is NOT the building but the body, the body of Christ. But it\'s a mystical body full of mystery and power. Today's church knows neither the mystery or the power of God.

"Abiding in Christ" is more than nice words. It's a "joy unspeakable and full of glory"; a "peace that passses all understanding"; and a transforming glory, "beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory... by the Spirit of the Lord".

When God is present in POWER no one can speak a single word. Stop going to chuch and started being the church! When you truly obey Christ\'s command to "Love one another as I have loved you" you will not be content to spend only a few hours a week together. Try telling your spouse, "I love you, but two hours a week is love enough". You believe you KNOW God when in truth, you have only learned ABOUT God.

I couldn't agree with your more! As a former ISP (Internet Services Provider) I watched this dumbing down process for the seven years I owned my business. These were the days of dial-up and modems. But as slow as the Internet was back then, people still preferred chat rooms (limited text and conversation) over in-depth forums. Now people are wasting their time in other ways, spending endless hours searching for (and emailing links to) the latest funny videos.

Just like the never realized potential of local-access cable stations, where anyone in the community could connect with the wider world, the Internet looks to be going down the same road. But the problem is not local-access cable stations or the Internet, the problem is people. Modern history reveals that Christians are usually the last to embrace new technologies. We need to change that. But more importantly, we need to change our conversations, which are usually shallow and time-limited... just like most of the Internet.

As a busy businessman back in 1996, who was now divorced from an alcoholic and unfaithful wife, I decided to leverage my limited time and put up a personal profile on some Christian dating sites. My business was the Internet (I ran my own ISP company for 7 years before selling) so why not! After getting over the initial shock of how worldly most of the online "Christian" women were, and after spending 8 years (on and off) searching, I'm happy to report that my wife and I finally found each other! We have been happily married for nearly 3 and a half years now.

It was truly God's doing. God answered my prayers in 1997 with a very powerful dream. Seven years and seven months later my wife and I met. The surprise was that Vonda is diabled. More details of God's miracles in bringing us together can be found at www.3circles.net/testimony

I hope our story helps others to believe God works miracles. The real secret to finding "the one" is to be totally sold out to doing God's will!