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***For me personally, I've decided to shift my focus and direct my energies toward places where they are more urgently needed.***

Go for it.

I would suggest that you underestimate the importance of the issues which separate Catholicism and Protestantism. Issues which are at the heart of the gospel.

I know plenty of people who have grown in their understanding of doctrine through these threads. And I know at least one who has come to Christ through a discussion initiated online and continued offline.

Evangelism is a biblical endeavor which I would not want to diminish. However the same is true of discipleship.

I know plenty of people who have grown in their understanding of doctrine through these threads. I know at least one who has come to Christ through a discussion initiated online and continued offline.

One. For all those hours? Hmmm. Sounds like burying your talent in the ground. Meanwhile, in perhaps half-a-dozen visits to an AOL Catholic chat room covering perhaps 8 hours, I've had substantive conversations with about 12 people--all of whom were almost completely ignornant of even the rudiments of Christian doctrine. I can't say that all of these people are ardent Christians today, but every one of them thanked me for taking the time to explain things that previously made no sense to them.