What's the most memorable (positive) thing you've learned on CC?

That shoving random memes and birthday cakes into people's faces REALLY help in garnering the likes and reputation... *wink wink*

I've learned that there are some good and decent people here at CC.

That I don't fit in here, but thanks to the grace of some, can still jive with some of the community.

One of the things that I've learned (I don't know about the MOST memorable, but the one I can think of at the moment!) That people are basically the same, the world over. It is amazing how everyone is so unique and yet so much the same, and you can really learn that on a site like this because there is a sampling of people from many places. God made man after His own image, and called it very good.

I am
still learning actually. Wish words came easy, but the truth is i am learning to love by the way ppl here teach, encourage, rebuke, argue, interact. As a student in school, i learned parts of 1 Cor. 13 in my head, but practicing charity as taught in the Word is not a theoretical thing we memorize and pretend we know (well i thought i did know a long time, but no). It is learned one step at a time, one day at a time. Something like snail mail, when i cannot force to read or reply to someone else's post in the available time, it teaches me to be patient w/ others and myself. Gives time to think things thru too.

When tempted to reply in pride, it holds one back. But at the same time, cc allowed me to articulate some things i never thought i could. I could not imagine the yrs passing by since i first hesitatingly joined and made replies, sometimes responding to, and feeling others' pain and trials. Also smiling or laughing at things i was too serious to mind before, but now learning to appreciate. And it has spilled over into real life, not just time here online. So thanks to cc, and everyone here, even the wise and the foolish who all strive to share, pray, understand what we all cannot understand to some point. And thanks be to God.

Remembering to proofread my post before submitting them.

The thing that really surprised me when I first came on CC, is just how many
different ideas there are about God and the bible floating around out there.

Most of the ologies and isms - I had never even heard of.
I thought God was God and the bible was the word of God.

Wow have I had an education. Lol

I realised how much I take my Christian upbringing for granted and what a blessing it is!

I tell you, in a different country, family, or church I could have been taught and come to
believe that we were all abducted from another planet, had 10 arms and legs and, lived
in under ground burrows eating green eggs and ham!

It also made me realise what a massive unspoken need there is out there to know the
truth and for people to be set free. Multiply the few thousand on here by the billions
across the globe; and planet earth is a world of confused trapped people.

Its no wonder Jesus wept, when looking at what the world should have been like
in the beginning.

I learned that the earth is flat...I'm sorry I could'nt resist.

Serious answer: I learned to be suspicious about what to believe. I have been deceived by new age religion before. I'm still learning to trust and focus on Jesus more.

Maybe because he doesn't use the bible like a weapon Sometimes I feel that that is the basis of CC.

Though I still fail miserably sometimes, I have gotten better at thinking "Nah... that troll is NOT worth my time", and leaving a thread without replying.

That I must learn to bless and bring Gods insight and not all the implications.

Too often the implications get lost in nuances that cannot be addressed here.

Wow. Well, thanks! Let's just say relationships are hard for me, and made more difficult when worldviews clash.

You and depleted are some of said gracious ones I've come to appreciate.

Ooh I forgot about flat earth, I never even heard of it until I came on CC.
I also didn't realise big foot was real or that Elvis was still alive.

it has re-inforced in our hearts the pitifulness of the world that our Saviour calls us out of...

Elvis will be very unhappy to hear you say that. Once he and I get done travelling through the hollow earth and make our tour of Mars via the jump gate, we're going to take our flying saucer back to Elvis' house where we'll get a card game going with Tupac Shakur and I'll tell them both how everyone still believes they are dead. It'll be good for some giggles.

I have learned that prayer works, God still speaks and changes people's hearts, and sometimes the people I butt heads with the most turnout to the folks I have the deepest and profound connection to because we are real with one another and have learnt to respect, love, forgive and pray for each other.

Also I know even though they have seen me at my weakest moments, they didn't turn away and we're there for me. So I learned there are still people who care enough to take hours out of their lives to actually listen and pray and not try and "fix" me or solve my problems for me.

you are very Blessed, Ariel,

and among other things, to have a group of TRUE-loved-ones-friends-in-Christ, to support you
whether you are 'up-or-down', is so rare to all who live on this planet...

just a personal share,

when we have a very special connection with others who trust us enough to tell us their
deepest and darkest feelings, 'well, almost', and ask us what is the right thing to do or
what would 'you do'??? we take this as an OPEN INVITATION for us to TELL-it-like-IT-IS...
yes, they would like you mostly to keep just quiet and NOT say a WORD, but JUST LISTEN, guess what?
this is not the way it works with those who LOVE you and don't care if you get mad or not!!!
we will brave the 'storm', ride it out, and accept what ever comes...

well, as it turns-out, 'when it isn't what they wanted to hear', then we, hub and me, are
usually 'banned' for a while, sometimes forever...this is a part of our JOB that
is always a bummer, but knowing the results for 'later-on', make it all so worth-while,
temporary LOSS and all...oh Yes, that 'old-time-religion-Love, will always see/get us through...

That you and I love each other as sisters in the Lord even though we may not agree on something.

I tend to have the sin of wanting man's approval (I'm working on it) and many times I just stay silent on many threads. Like for example, Lynn asked if I agreed with her about something. I didn't want to post a reply and saw her same post a couple of different times while reading the thread and I side-stepped it until I was convicted that I don't have to avoid a question because my belief might not agree with hers.

When I have posted to stand for something I believe in, I'm learning I need to wear God's full armor. It protects me from the darts of the enemy when they come. Because some here don't know how to disagree and still be kind with their words.

At the top of this page it says, 'Christian Chat - Live International Fellowship.' When we fellowship many things happen and one of them is that we learn from one another. If we don't learn from each other..... are we having true fellowship?

1 John 1:5-10
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.