Here are our chat room rules. Most of these "rules" are simply common sense and proper Christian conduct, but for reference here they are.

1. Nothing anti-Christian, or inappropriate for a Christian chat room.

Please do not try to register any blasphemous or offensive nicks. Also please do not engage in any blasphemous, profane, or improper talk, or any talk that is offensive to our Christian community.

2. No conduct that is offensive or counterproductive to fellowship.

We like to welcome all to Christian Chat, but if anyone is not here for fellowship (or for wanting to know about Christianity), but simply for disrupting fellowship, offending people, whatever, then that person is not welcome.

3. No flooding.

Please don't flood the whole screen with your messages.

4. English, please.

Please speak mostly English in the chat rooms so that others can understand you. At least please do not dominate the voice chat (or text chat) with conversation in another language.

5. No worldly music, please.

We don't want to make an absolute rule against all secular music/lyrics, but most secular music is indeed worldly (against the teachings of the Bible), and we'd really rather have Christian music or lyrics playing (or being sung) when others enter our "Christian" chat rooms! :)

6. No unauthorized advertising of anything.

Please come to our chat rooms for fellowship, not to try to advertise anything (not even in private messages to our chat room visitors). By "anything" we mean anything -- web sites, chat rooms, churches, groups, doctrine, etc.

7. Do not dispute the chat room monitors.

The monitors are there to watch over the chat rooms, promote fellowship, and protect the chat rooms when necessary. Their job is stressful enough. :-) Don't add to their stress by disputing their actions, especially if it involves someone else and not you. For example, if you see a monitor kick someone, and wonder why, don't worry about it. The monitor probably knows something you don't. Have some trust in the monitors, appreciate them, and respect their oversight of the chat rooms.

8. Please do not ask us how to become a monitor.

Sorry we don't accept requests to be a monitor; it is by invitation only.

9. Please do not register more than one chat nick.

We prefer that every chat user have one single identity in the chat rooms.

10. Please do not hang out where you do not belong.

Please only use the Teens chat room if you are between 13 and 19 years old and the Singles chat room only if you are single and age 18 or older. (The other chat rooms are for general fellowship and are open to all.)

11. Please do not dominate the main room (the Lounge) with silly talk.

There has been a tendency for teenagers and young adults to pile up in the main room (the Lounge) and dominate the microphone with silly talk at peak times when there are other people in the room who might like to speak or discuss more serious topics. To solve this problem, we have added another chat room -- the Young Adults room -- for young adults or even teenagers or anyone who feels like a young adult. :)

12. Chat room rules also apply to profiles.

Please don't post any inappropriate links in your chat profile (i.e. to anti-Christian sites, sites with inappropriate content, sites promoting other religions, cults, or doctrines contrary to God's Word, the Bible). Photos in chat profiles should be with appropriate clothing and not provocative.

13. Please don't solicit funds for any charities in our chat rooms.

Many users have joined our chat rooms to try to solicit donations for their own charity (or some other Christian charity). There are so many charities people claim (e.g., orphanages in India, food for Africa, etc.) and we have no way to verify these things. And besides, people don't join our chat rooms to be solicited, so please refrain.

Note: We occasionally update or add to these rules. These rules are linked from the front page of our site.