Hey Everyone,
It's that time again! We're planning another Forum Friends Live Chat Meetup this Friday (March 13) at 5 PM Central Time. Ask Google to translate this to your local time if you're not in this time zone (I have to do this for myself, too!)
Here is the link to the chat rooms -- just login like you do for the forums, then look for a room called something like "ForumMeetup" (or a room started by Lynx) to enter on that day:
https://christianchat.com/app/
Lynx will be there at the start; due to time differences, I get there about an hour later. We usually go for another hour after that, but just kind of go with the crowd. You can come and go as you please, and whether you want to talk on the mic, only type, or be a silent lurker, we welcome you to stop by!
We are learning as we go in this whole process. As stated above, Lynx will start a room called something like "ForumMeetup," and I will make a second back-up room as well. One night, the mic wasn't working, so we jumped to another room. Half the crowd we attract tends to be from these forums, and the other half are chat-only people looking for conversations.
We've had some people try to turn our chat into another branch of The Bible Discussion Forum --which is great; it's a Christian Chat site, of course people are looking for Biblical discussion -- but that's not the purpose of our particular chat.
We are The Fellowship Hour and The Coffee and Donuts time after the sermon. Therefore, if some people want to stay and have Biblical debates and so forth, that's awesome -- they can stay in that room to teach and debate to their heart's content.
But for those who are looking for everyday conversations about life and how we're living out our daily walks as Christians, we will just migrate to the second room we set up. (Again, you can see why I drag Lynx to all these chats -- it's helpful to work as a team -- plus, he's free tech support!)
So you'll see a room created by Lynx and another one created by me; just go to the one with people, or check out both if people are in both rooms. One might be a Biblical discussion, and the other might be a casual conversation.
About 1/3 of the crowd is married, so this really is a friendship group for everyone.
And since many of us are now regulars and have shared most of our stories, we are going to try starting out with light chat and then possibly playing Bible Trivia if people are interested. We're hoping to keep up a fun chat/game night without any heavy debates that almost always turn into arguments.
Another chatter suggested the game, "Would You Rather?" so we might play that another time.
Hope to see you there!