Rowland said:

After all (as I'll be saying - but without names - in a workshop in an
American conference in a couple of months) people trying to establish a
church on a Usenet newsgroup with some 'in' and others 'preferred out' has
not ever happened before, to my knowledge. It was simply a matter of
noting
that phenomenon that motivated those articles on our website...

Actually Rowland, the process was like this:

We had a group of people that wished to help others as they walked towards
Christ. And for a while the ministry was working. In time however,
others
came along who had no interest in this process and even proceeded to work
against it in any an all ways that came to mind. The 'ins' were simply
those who wished to be a part. The 'preferred outs' were those who didn't
and who's constant efforts to the contrary were becoming significant
stumbing blocks to some.
Perhaps you only became aware of the process after several of us had
regrettably, stepped outside of our original purpose to try to deal with
the
few loudest dissemblers? The focus was temporarily lost because so much
time was spent coming against those who clearly wanted no part of what was
happening.

Maybe rather than focussing on the 'ins' and 'preferred outs' that it
degraded into (which simply started as a means to deal with those who's
only
ministry was opposition), you could focus on the original theme we were
reaching for, as stated in the ACC posting guidelines?
Why focus on were it stepped outside of Christ, when our collective focus
should be Christ?

Yours in Christ,

Griz