Comments on: My Post Facebook Life

By: DML

DML — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:29:18 +0000

Face Book…Good or Bad? Does it really matter to the real relationships you currently have in your life? Marty…sometimes I think your perspective on your past experiences and relationships are as if you are the only one that has moved on.

Granted some of the people in your past are the same as they ever were …they will never change. But I for one am not the same person I was 20 years ago. I have moved on and so have many of the very people you reference sometimes. A visit for a few days to your past or a blurb on a face book account does not truly indicate where people are in their life.

You have moved on and want others to know that you are not the same Marty that is pictured above…what a better way to show the people from your past that your are different.

Is not demonstrating where you are in your true relationships a benefit of such growth?

Face book and this blog are great ways to do just that.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:44:42 +0000

Yeah, you are definitely much better off for having jumped out of the KJV-only circle at PCC. I’m surprised they haven’t stormed Fellowship Church and burned all the devil-inspired Bible translations you have there.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:48:58 +0000

I think it’s cool that u and I grew up “back in the college day” and shared in the same experience, yet now that we are older and involved in ministry, many of our views and convictions are similar once again.

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:39:39 +0000

I don’t know what you are talking about Marty. I checked the PCC website and everything there said they were pretty awesome.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:29:59 +0000

Hey Marty,
Your Calvinist friends couldn’t possibly get upset with you if you jumped ship. After all, it was pre-ordained before the foundation of the world and you couldn’t change it if you tried!
“Just a thought…..” >
P.S. I’ve discovered that “a friend loveth at all times.”
But acquaintances….well that’s a different story.

By: Karen Biehler

Karen Biehler — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:00:30 +0000

I think you’re giving facebook too much credit. I personally have enjoyed my facebook experience. Some people I have been thrilled to find again, others, not so much. I’m sure some of my “friends” feel the same about me. Well, then so be it. I think you are going to find a “new crop of enemies” wherever you go and whatever you do.

By: liz ortiz

liz ortiz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:04:54 +0000

This is good stuff, Marty. I’m reading this on my lunch break I’ve been thinking about the same thing. About whether people really are meant to be in your life for a season and how maybe facebook is complicating that and causing unnecessary turmoil. It’s interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:30:28 +0000

Perseverence of the Saints, Marty. We all know you’d come back around. Or maybe Limited Atonement is more apropos in this situation

I know the feeling though. I’ve had numerous “friends” from my past decide that my facebook profile is the apropriate venue to chastise and antagonize me based on my current socio-political views (which, of course, is considered by these folk to be my religious views) etc. Numerous times, someone has sent me a friend request, posted one or two things, then infriensed me when they realized that I’m not who I was 10 years ago.

Oh well, at least after they unfriend me, they can’t see my current location…