GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
The Hub
To clarify right from the outset, the Real Liberal Christian Church (RLCC) and its communes will be top-down and bottom-up at the same time. In other words, it will be level. This is not illogical or self-contradictory. It is contextual, as is the entirety of the revelation of Jesus Christ. While at the same time, it is absolute. You may read the applicable sections of There Is No Such Thing as a Conservative-Republican Christian: Jesus is a small-c communist to gain a fuller understanding of what is meant by this.
Just to give you some idea so you may continue reading the first and second level of this website without having too much difficulty with the language of the revelation, consider the following saying of Jesus:
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all. — Mark 9:35
To grasp this truly is to get the whole thing. In the revelation though, in the language of Jesus, to grasp is to do. Who will be the leaders of the RLCC? Well, who will be the last of all, and servants of all? Jesus, the exemplar, certainly heads the Church. He is no anomaly or incongruity. He is the archetype of redeemable humanity. Those who model their behavior after him in earnest will be the leaders of the RLCC: The Christians, who will be the whole of humanity.
Therefore, with the last as first, the bottom is raised up to the top, making it a rising-leveling effect. That's the real heavenly mentality.
This means the members of the RLCC will follow the servants, the good shepherds, who will not lead their souls into iniquity. It is the true democracy. The most freeing of choices.
This is why the General Administration of the RLCC is a hub to facilitate the flow of the Holy Spirit of service. It is centralization in decentralization. This is the spirit of the Alpha and Omega (first and last) Jesus called himself. The head administrator will be the servant of those serving elsewhere. Those other servants will choose to follow that head, because that head will be exemplifying the spirit of being last (serving the fold in unselfishness).
We go into the concept of "democracy in the workplace" and how in it's purest form, it is Christianity. Full and equal employee ownership is another such concept. In such an environment, competition is not the point. Service in the spirit of cooperation and unity is the point. We call it unselfish love in action or the spirit of oneness in service and friendship. It is within this spirit that the board members of the RLCC will be selected.
The Board
The board will be the collective conscience at the center of that flow of information. It will be a representative body of the membership. Each of the main organizational thrusts of the Church will be represented. It will be a deliberative, decision-making, administrative body, an executive body.
At first, of course, the board will be a confidence-building body. Integrity, ethics, and morality sound redundant. They certainly overlap. Along with honesty, openness (qualified by the admonitions of the Gospels), directness, unselfishness, love, peace, and a Real Liberal Christian commitment (which requires the aforementioned), they will make up the traits of the board.
Committees and task forces
Of course, there will be committees and task forces (ad hoc committees) all up and down the line. Form will follow function. The grassroots will decide how to build what is needed from the ground up.
One of the worst errors of capitalism is the inability of those at the top to realize that those doing the actual work know more about the actual work than those at the top. The people actually doing the work know what is wrong with the flow of things. They know the bottlenecks. All they usually need is to be asked or listened to or both.
The General Administration will be there to facilitate that building, that Church and commune development, but asking, listening, and coordinating/conducting for the good of each and all.
Development:
To be sure, development here doesn't mean the same thing it means in the capitalistic sense. It will be ecologically oriented development with an eye to getting better and better. It will be not-for-profit (capitalistic profit) development. The profit will be in the Christian additive sense for the whole and each member of it.
Planning
The denominational big picture of the globe, cosmos, and Heaven within will be kept in mind by the board and committees when planning. The central objective in planning is facilitating bringing forth the fruits of Heaven on Earth. That's the objective. No matter what happens, even the total destruction of the home world, it is the right thing to do to bring forth in the here and now. All those denominations and nondenominational entities that say otherwise are just flat wrong. The RLCC must and will work to bring forth despite all the naysayers in the world.
Planning will be a dynamic, flexible process. There will be plenty of open discussion and give and take back and forth in the flow of ideas. Our general plans will be made available even on the Internet. More detailed plans will be disseminated member-wide. Operationally detailed plans will be disseminated through the entire path for the given project. This method should burden none while keeping all properly informed, aware, and involved.
Planning is tied in with management and administration in that delegation, facilitation, follow-up, adjustment, and further dissemination are critical. It's a constant loop. We must avoid the error of the capitalists who fear sharing information because they fear losing personal selfish power, control, credit, and extremely excessive (greedy) compensation.
Insurance
Self-insure as much as possible is the way to go. Insurance companies make money by investing premiums and spreading risk across premium payers. If the RLCC has sufficient membership, the RLCC can effectively spread any loss across the whole membership (and the supporting community that may not necessarily be full-fledged members).
Insurance is doubt. Loss is spiritual in origin. A giving world needs no capitalist insurance. It needs no one profiting off the lack of faith, the loss, and the fear of loss of others.
As for disabilities, our members will practice the best safety habits; however, God forbid, in the event of the disability of one of our commune member-workers, the Church will see to the needs of that member for life.
There are those who will say that the Church should maintain a reasonable fund invested in socially responsible, relatively liquid money-market accounts, mutual funds, certificates of deposit, and savings (interest-bearing) accounts. That's diversion. The Church could pour money into insurance or channel funds into commune development with health centers and an emphasis upon prevention. Which will profit the people the most?
This is no indictment of a universal healthcare program. In fact, universal healthcare is exactly right.
Legal
General Administration will coordinate the flow of information throughout the Church concerning mundane, secular laws and how they impact upon us. We will do our best to abide by the mundane law but will always strive to abide by the divine law. The real spirit of the law is divine, as Jesus showed. We can never break the law while keeping the new commandment.
Canons, etc.
Concerning the Church canons and policies and procedures and the like, the new commandment will be the supreme measuring rod by which we discern the correctness of all of our laws.
The emotion and thought behind our canon (law) is Good Samaritanism. It is also to be as free from evil and its temptations as possible. Good Samaritanism and real freedom that is freedom from evil and temptation go hand in hand.
Our laws are for us, not the heathen (those who are not real Christians). The heathen are spiritually dead. Their bodies are alive in the scientific sense. Their souls exist. However, real spiritual life leads to God and salvation from evil. Heathenism does not. It leads to death that is the fruit of evil, the consequences of apostasy upon the soul.
Our laws cannot be forced upon anyone. The only thing we may do is separate the heathen from our body, the Church.
Everyone is free to join, and everyone is free to leave. The Church (the whole) is also free to deny membership to anyone, and the Church is free to excommunicate anyone. This is right.
Our rule is, As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. — Jesus (Luke 6:31; King James Version). This is most commonly expressed as "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Knowing how we ought to want to be treated is central to this rule. That knowledge comes from the new commandment that is "… Love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — Jesus (John 13:34).
If we each have this written on our heart, we will never violate the Church canon.
Understand here that we are not saying that in keeping each of the rules of the Church one is guaranteed never to violate John 13:34. We are saying that keeping John 13:34 is the spirit of all our canon and that anyone keeping John 13:34 will never be breaking the law even if a lesser rule is violated. In such cases, it is the lesser rule that must be brought into conformity with the new commandment. In other words, if a rule or regulation is inconsistent with John 13:34, it is unconstitutional and in need of amending or abolition.
The General Administration section will be responsible for maintaining and disseminating as needed, among other things, the following:
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Articles of Association (or Incorporation)
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Canons (our Church's laws)
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Board minute books
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Grants, Charters, and the like, conferred by any entity upon the RLCC and those conferred by our denominational headquarters upon any congregation, mission, commune, committee, or the like
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Denominational property records
General Administration will also set Records Management and Retention Policy.
Operational guidelines (policies and procedures)
As the hub of the Church, General Administration will document and make available to all corners of the Church the highest and best policies and procedures from throughout the Church and the world, all consistent with the new commandment and our plan. This should greatly facilitate starting and growing RLCC communes and missions.
Administrative support
This category consist of such things as the following:
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Office management
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Administrative assistance
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Reception
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General clerking
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Mailroom
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Hard-file clerking
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Shredding
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Office supplies
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Photocopying
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Faxing
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Recycling
General facilities management, security, and library
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General facilities management will include, among other things, routine maintenance and cleaning.
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There are trustworthy souls, and there are all the rest. Anything is possible with God; however, facilities containing sensitive information will be secured and alarmed or monitored where there is any doubt amongst the membership or initiates.
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The Church will be referring on this website to many books which will be cited and to which we will link for affiliate purposes, among other reasons. Our reading, lending, and reference library will grow as a result of obtaining such books and others.
The duty to handle these will fall to the office manager under the supervision of the board.
Disclaimer
Each congregation/commune will own its administrative offices networked with the denominational headquarters. Each commune will also have mini-offices about for the various main functions of the commune with those offices networked with the commune office.
We trust this has given you a sufficient overview of the central department of the various planned departments of the RLCC.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.