X-Delivery-Notice:  SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender.
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:06:51 -0400
From:         Eric James Ewanco <eje@IRENAEUS.MLO.DEC.COM>
Subject:      Hello: Introduction

The grace and peace of Christ Jesus, the love of God, and the fellowship of the
Holy Spirit be with your spirit.

Hi! I just joined this list.  I thought that I would introduce myself.
Some of you may remember me; I used to post on this list, about two
years ago, from the account ee0n+@andrew.cmu.edu.  I have graduated and
now work at Digital Equipment in Maynard, Massachusetts.

I am an evangelical Pentecostal Latin-Rite Catholic Christian.  I realize some
of you may see one or more of these qualifiers as a contradiction in terms. I
hope that my witness will persuade you otherwise.

I joyfully acknowledge Jesus Christ, the One true God, as my Lord and Savior.
With inspired and inerrant Sacred Scripture, echoed by the Council of Trent, I
believe that salvation and justification are free gifts of God, and that we are
justified by faith, "without which it is impossible to please God" (Heb 11:6);
(Trent, Decree on Justification, ch. 8).  I have a "firm hope and confidence"
that I will be saved, for I have received the Holy Spirit as the "first-fruits"
(Rom 8:23) or down payment of the salvation Jesus has won for us, and I
"rejoice in [my] hope of sharing the glory of God" (Rom 5:2), and I believe
that he who "shall persevere to the end will be saved" (Mt 10:22) -- so I "work
out my salvation with fear and trembling" (Phil 2:12) that I may "beat my body
and make it my slave, so that ... I myself will not be disqualified for the
prize."  Nevertheless, I rejoice now in the hope of things not seen, for Christ
Jesus has filled my heart with unspeakable joy to overflowing, and my spirit
with a "peace that passes understanding". For having tasted the Living Water,
the Bread of Life, and the Blood of the New Covenant, I never want to return to
the desert.  I surrendered my life to the will of Christ Jesus in 1987, and I
was baptized in the Holy Spirit in September 1989.  I listen to Contemporary
Christian Music, and particularly enjoy Christian rock.

I am a software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation.  I write firmware
for bridges and routers.  I work in Maynard Mass. at corporate headquarters,
and I live in Framingham, about a 1/2 hour from Boston.  I graduated from
Carnegie Mellon University formally this year.

I hope to contribute to lively discussion. I am not ashamed to be a Catholic
Christian -- nor am I ashamed of the truth of the Kerygma (Proclamation,
message) of the Logos, Christ, the "faith that was once for all entrusted to
the saints" (Jude 3).

Peace be with your spirit.

Eric Ewanco
ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com
ewanco@mlo.dec.com
ee0n+@andrew.cmu.edu (direct talks and fingers here; my plan file lives here)

/=============================================================================\
| Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer     For the rash and outrageous
opinions ex-|
| Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA  pressed herein I alone am responsible;  |
| ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com          they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM).      |
\==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/
    "...[T]he greatest and most ancient Church known to all, founded and
    organized at Rome by [] Peter and Paul, [is] that Church which has the
    tradition and faith which comes down to us after having been announced
    to men by the Apostles.  For with this Church, because of its superior
    origin, all Churches must agree ...  and it is in her that the
    faithful everywhere have maintained the Apostolic tradition."
       -- St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, c. 180 A.D., 3,3,3.