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MEMBERSHIP (JOIN US)
The Body of Christ
The members are to be the manifestation of righteousness on earth. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of righteousness. When God and Jesus dwell within one, when the Holy Spirit is alive in one's being, that one will bring forth on earth the fruits of the kingdom of God in heaven. When more than one such person joins with another and yet others who are like minded, like hearted, and they give over all their strength to the right kind and degree of love, then God will bring the real bounty to earth through them, as they bring it through God. This is the spirit of oneness Jesus shared with his, and our, father who is in heaven and who was on earth in Jesus.
Help others help yet others
The members of the Real Liberal Christian Church will not be in it for themselves. They will be in it to help others help yet others until everyone is being properly served and none is lording it over any other.
Share
Our members will share their treasury (finances) in common for the sake of righteousness in the world, bringing heaven to earth, making both new.
They will endeavor to grow the communes as the Christian commons and to spread this throughout the world as the model for the world to bring the new heaven to earth.
Feed the lambs and sheep
They will work to feed the lambs and sheep of God and to keep the commandments of Jesus Christ our brother who came to save us from sin. The members will work to bring forth the Christian commons from which the lambs and sheep of the world will be fed without charge.
Be faithful
The members of the Church will not be members of churches that are not "real," not "liberal," and not "Christian," as those terms are understood as interpreted by the Real Liberal Christian Church.
Separate out the cause and movement of Christianity from the huge, highly organized, worldly wealthy denominations calling themselves Christianity. For there should be no denominations with any wealth that is not shared across all its membership [MEMBERSHIP SEMANTICS] and with the goal of bringing the entire world to love, peace, and truth and the healing of the severely abused and scarred planet. In which case, it would eliminate all the divisions and hence all denominations for it alone would be the one, true, church of Jesus Christ, God our Father Almighty, and the Holy Spirit. That is the Real Church.
They will not be members in any organization that is ecumenical or syncretic in a downward direction.
They won't be members of secret societies. It is a mistake for people to be members in these absolutely non-Christian secret societies, regardless of how harmless the membership imagines those societies to be. No matter how lightly members take such things, letting such things in has the impact of practicing the heart, training the heart, conditioning the soul in ways contrary to what will be needed, and is needed, to do righteousness always. That is born out by the fact that such secret societies have never, and cannot, produce the real bounty as looked for by Jesus.
They will not be members of groups that seek to combine to form a divided house with incompatible spirits: Light and darkness.
Evangelize
Our members will read, study, discuss, and spread the Good News of Jesus and his Real Liberal Christian Church.
All those who join the Church will go through training in the Canons, Continuing Resolutions, any Grants or Charters (as defined in the Canons or Continuing Resolutions), the Policies and Procedures (covering but not limited to conflict resolution, confidentiality, counseling, and church discipline), and the religious doctrine of the Church. They will understand and acknowledge in their hearts that members in good standing abide by, and remain faithful to, those documents and their training.
Mundane certification
To satisfy the mundane authorities, upon successful completion of training, each incoming member will receive a certificate of membership indicating the training the new member has completed. His or her name will be added to the membership roll of the Church.
Understand that it isn't a piece of paper that recommends you but rather the Holy Spirit operating within that brings forth only good fruit: Loving, peaceful, warning (that is among other things the loving and earnest rebuke for cause), giving, sharing, and the rest of the good.
To vote within the Church
Only members in good standing will be allowed to vote on Church matters.
Focus
The members will seek to maintain the single vision of Jesus Christ so that the whole body will be full of nothing but light, the truth.
Cooperate rather than compete
They will be of the cooperative spirit and not the competitive spirit. Raising up others rather than self is being last and therefore first. They will be egalitarian. They will be truly democratic in the sense intended by Jesus with his followers freely voting to follow him as their servant.
Be a priesthood of all believers
Our members will be of the priesthood of all believers. Each child of God has a direct, personal relationship with our father. The hierarchy of the church set up by the Roman Empire, under Constantine I, is a church of the succession of priests who have not believed, and do not yet believe, this. They cannot partake, and they seek to deny others. They seek to block the way.
Be good stewards and good shepherds
The members will also each be the servant of each other and of all. Each is a steward and a shepherd. We are our brothers' and sisters' keepers.
Do not discriminate against the family in the Holy Spirit
The members will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, or disability in terms of the mundane understanding of each of these terms. We believe there are only two real races, per se: The family in the Holy Spirit versus the family in the spirit of falsehood. These terms in the divine sense must be studied in that context to be understood. The members will understand that transsexualism is an unreal contrivance (a falsehood, an error) and no solution.
Our members will be members of the spirit family rather than the mundane bloodline family. We say mundane here, because the divine bloodline is the spiritline. This is spirit over flesh. This is righteousness over flesh. It is in that way and sense that we are children of God, offspring of God. Of course, it is also biological. That is the meaning of God incarnate and indwelling as one and the same.
Does evil run in families? Of course it does. Can an individual family member breakout of that stream? Of course he or she can. Can an entire family turn? Yes. This is understood within its context. It is no paradox to say that one can if one will choose to, but one could not if one did not choose to. God calls, but God also chooses and also rejects. Yet, it is fallen human beings who reject God. Here is where the members see just how simultaneously close and far humanity may be vis-Ã -vis God.
The spiritline learns the semantics of the revelation. They come to understand the love-hate relationship they have with those of the mundane bloodline who refuse the truth of love and peace that only the one path of Jesus to God will provide.
There is a fulltime love-hate relationship concerning all such relationships. There is the hate of any family member's iniquity and the wickedness within oneself while there is also the simultaneous love of one's enemies (foes), even in this case within one's household. Hate the iniquity while always loving in order to potentiate enlightenment, thereby, selling nobody short (not judging them-just witnessing to the truth).
Respect privacy
Our membership will respect the privacy of other members and the whole Church concerning those things that Jesus said each member is to do privately. Privacy and confidentiality is not limited to these however. Understand that unlike the apostate secular authorities, the real Church does not cover sin to facilitate sin. The real Church covers sin to facilitate repentance and atonement, forgiveness and mercy. The term "cover" here is contextual, of course. God covers sin. It is in that sense that we use the term here.
Don't look back
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. (Luke 9:62).
Acts 5:1-11 makes clear what "truth or consequences" means.
But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.
And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
There is also the following for your consideration, edification, and salvation:
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his [Lot, who was Abraham's nephew] wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:24-26).
Membership is an eternal commitment with one's soul on the line. We want every soul that can hear the voice to respond. Those who back out never heard that real voice and were never really in the spirit. You must choose. No one can do it for you.
Believe that there is real prophecy
Our members will believe in the prophetic word of God. No one is a member of the body of Christ without having openly accepted Jesus as the one of prophecy, as Jesus, himself, described.
Know the real Church and the real state
They will understand that in real Christianity, there is no separation of Church and the real state, because Christians know that the real state is divine, righteous, pacifistic, non-coercive, freely giving and sharing, and the commons of all who will accept it, God's will and not the arrogant, usurping apostates'.
Be a real liberal
They will stand peacefully, non-coercively (that is not advocating the use of the coercive mundane state to enforce good consciences), against greed, violence, and sexual depravity, including the sin of homosexuality. Non-married members will be celibate. Married members will be monogamous and faithful.
Each member will be a worker serving the fold, putting the needs of each other and the whole body of the Church in God first.
The members agree that everything entrusted will be entrusted for the cause of developing fertile ground, real liberal, real Christian, nonprofit (mundane sense), charitable, all things in common, communes for member-workers to serve each other and be dependant upon each other and supporters all through the message of Jesus in God to spread the church community through the use of commune surpluses (bounty) to establish additional communes to feed in body and spirit all the lambs and sheep of the world. This is to be done always mindful of God's power and willingness in his mercy to provide for a faithful and worthy world without toil.
Continue
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list in the mundane sense. Know this, though, the new commandment is the whole law. Keep it, and you keep all of God's commandments and no human law may touch your soul.
These points about being a member of the Church are developmental. The Church membership will bring forth appropriate materials for the edification of incoming members.
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4 Comments on “MEMBERSHIP (JOIN US)”:
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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:
- Will it be twisting my words or taking parts or the whole out of context (the biggest picture)?
- Will it be with an eye to finding out first or attacking without knowing? What are your intentions? Are they good or evil?
- Are you with the takers?
- Are you with the oppressors?
- Are you for greed, selfish hoarding, violence, war making?
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. (Psalms 55:21)
- Are you for depravity and harming others and yourself sexually and psychically, torture, waterboarding, espionage, deceiving, and/or all or any of the rest of the evil spirit; or are you contrite with me toward the real God who is always peace?
- Will you submit your real full name or be cowardly without cause? (Some have some mundane fears? I don't seek anyone's unknowing, unwilling sacrifice.)
- Will you post on the post to which you refer, or will you slip over somewhere else thinking you'll barb me? You won't. You'll barb yourself.
- Will you "instruct" me, or will you look for mutual edification or spiritual growth?
- Will you complain, attack, and seek to come off as offended for others and/or yourself, or will you truly seek ultimate truth and impart real light here and to the world?
- Will you be nothing but an Internet troll?
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.
Saturday, February 21, 2009 @ 3:08:09 PM (Pacific Time)
I say am christian . I like gonig to church. I like join member real liberal church. I say accept your blog. I say learn about jesus. I say try study the bilble book. I like rember god made people. I like buy bilble story
Saturday, February 21, 2009 @ 7:37:15 PM (Pacific Time)
Hello Jessica,
Very fine
Thank you for being a Christian. I like to remember that God made people too.
God made you.
God Bless,
Tom Usher
Friday, July 10, 2009 @ 9:30:48 AM (Pacific Time)
There's a good ebook that's free to help pastors and their wives with discouragement and burnout. You can find it at http://www.stoppastorburnout.c.....om. It's quite helpful.
Friday, July 10, 2009 @ 2:45:17 PM (Pacific Time)
Hello Andrew John,
Take care not to turn your comment into comment spam on other sites.
I see that the book is in the Charismatic tradition, meaning that the Holy Spirit has not ceased to work signs and wonders (they've just been subtler for a long while). I see also that the book comes out from the Fivefold Ministry concept of the Pauline letter Ephesians, chapter four, verse eleven.
I hold with the movement of the Holy Spirit for sure. What I am not, however, is Pauline. I don't say that all things Pauline are necessarily Paul's vision. Many interpretations have gone into constructing what today are the various Pauline churches.
I don't hold with any clear demarcation of the five offices of this Fivefold Ministry concept. In fact, Jesus himself said not to be called one of them: teacher (as in rabbi). Was he being contextual to the point of accepting Paul's "teaching" on the matter? He was saying that it is the Holy Spirit God who gives the real instruction. I do not wish to diminish that focus by subscribing to the teacher-notion of the Fivefold Ministry concept of Paul. I do though comprehend contexts where the connotation is designed to suggest that the teaching from the teacher is credited to God. That of course emphasizes my point that there is no demarcation in the end, so why fabricate a means that doesn't lead there.
As for the notion of "burnout" of a pastor or spouse, this is backsliding and, of course, indicative. I haven't read the book, so I won't assume or anticipate what it does or doesn't say in support of this.
I am not an American Dreamer. The furthest thing from my mind and heart is raising up more of the same "churches" where pastors are mere businessman and women. American-style commercial business is an unwanted forceful intrusion and offense. Rick Warren and all the other Peter Drucker users (I have read Drucker) are apostates, frankly.
I will use all the various organizational ideas but only as tools to wean us off capitalism and majority democracy, which are both unchristian. This is how I approach Paul and his means and ends. Where I say that Drucker and Warren were means to a wrong end, I say the same of Paul. The employment of the tools as in where, when, and why, etc., is something for the Holy Spirit to direct. Warren's clearly stated goals are American-Dream- and super-patriot-type ideas that do not jibe with the message of Jesus. He is not a powerful anti-war voice at all. His reverse tithing is easy for him since one 10th of his mammon income still leaves him privately wealthy in the unrighteous mammon.
People worship their understanding of the nature of God. The New and Old Testaments are in continuity, but the New reveals what was hidden to the masses in the Old and even to the Old Testament prophets. The difference lies in the fruits.
The fruits of the spirit are not always good or right. There is the evil spirit that masquerades as the good. When we say that there is none other but God, we are making a semantical statement concerning the real versus the false-hearted. The spirit of Satan is the false-hearted spirit that has masqueraded as God, who is the only real, purely goodhearted. The "wrath" of God is the Satanic — not God. When Jesus cleaned his temple, he did not unleash.
The God seen and heard by the Old was an angel. Satan is an angel — a demon angel. He is inferior and hence imperfect and not the author of existence. He, not God, moves souls to wrath. He is though under God's plan whether Satan likes it or not, which he doesn't. God's plan is that we reject Satan for God so that we are no longer Hell bound for wrath and torture.
The proverbial swine will seek to trample this and to rip me to pieces, but it won't fall because it is true. Ask the real God.
This post and the comments there shed light. If you are given by God, you will see there the false spirit contending in death throws and falling away.
Truth