I understand that you have a life, but can I ask why you have not answered some of my questions? I think they are important.<\/p>\n\t
There is one of me. That’s it. There is no staff here. I hold down a full-time job as a preacher plus work two part-time jobs to make ends meet. Each day I try to answer at least one or two questions. A few days I actually can spend some time answering several. My queue of questions currently stands at 479 questions. This doesn’t count the private questions I answer that are too personal to post, the critical questions that I try to handle directly, and the phone calls that come in. The questions come in at a rate far greater than I can answer. I do what I can, but there are limits to what I can do. I have a few friends who tackle some of the questions, but they usually manage about one a week or so.<\/p>\n
Another congregation has offered to help support my work. If that goes through, I should be able to back off on one of my part-time jobs to give me a few more hours per week. But given the popularity of the site, I suspect that I’ll remain swamped because of a greater influx of questions. Right now the main site receives about 8,000 visitors per day, and the two sites dedicated to teenagers get about 2,000 visitors per day combined.<\/p>\n
I’m not complaining. I enjoy answering the questions, but it does help if people understand what is going on behind the scenes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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