He sent this to me.

Thank you Brother Les.

I do did not, in any fashion disagree, with your approach as i will describe below.

I did misunderstand that which your chess.com Christian club(s) approach is because, as you have heard me say earlier ....

i had viewed the application process as a means to determine if the applicant was likely saved.

Meanwhile, I viewed each chess.com Christian club as a church.

Which brings us to ..... What is my version of 'church.'

My : ) version of church is one that will embrace all visitors while providing full orientation and training to learn authentic reformed / Bible based Christianity, but who will not be permitted to join and become a church member until after a personal profession of faith which, of course includes, that he/she believes that he/she has been saved.

Back to ‘me,’ since the chess.com Christian clubs provided no formal such orientation, i further allowed myself to just assume that the application process was employed for determining saved or otherwise.

Of course, it is completely fine that the chess.com Christian club(s) do not take ‘my’ approach. They are righteously managed and taking the associated approach that each determines is how is it to be done.

However, upon my learning of the differences in the approaches, it would be wrong for me to remain a member of those very clubs,

cause i would eventually have to accept that i was a square bolt trying to fit in a nicely rounded hole : ))))).

As we know there are many avenues to salvation thru Jesus (but ONLY thru Jesus).

I am just a part of a spoke among the many spokes and wheels.

It is best, of course, for each of us to find how we each best fit into our intended wheel assembly.

My best fit is as described.

Thank you very much for your added willingness to consider me for membership.

And it is best for me to moving on in my travels.

CHRISTians United in Christ and Chess Administrators

Super Admins