01-09-2022, 05:33 PM
I feel led to shoot from the hip here.
I'm not leading anything; I'm just the guy who discovered something God was doing and I've invited anyone who wants a share of it to dig right in. I've indicated in the past that it's very hard for us to assess where God is going with this thing we all share. My vision doesn't include that. How about yours? All I can say is that I'm pulling out answers I could never find before, and it seems the rest of you have been looking for something like this. But whether it's a concerted search for that one precious pearl, like with me, or just stumbling across that treasure while pursuing something else, it's worth our whole lives when we find it.
For quite some time I've insisted that this should not be a denomination. It was intended to be a meta-religion: A faith-based search for the underlying structure of religion. Of course, I fully expect someone in the future will try to turn it into a denomination. That's how Western folks are programmed. There's nothing I can do to prevent that, but I'm trying to make it a doctrine that we don't do that.
Somewhere down the road in front of me, the Lord indicates I'll be leading a local group of some kind. I'll do my best to distinguish between that local body and the teaching behind how I do religion. I keep trying to do that with my writing, leaving the door open for someone to find their own way to manifest something deeper that will bind us all together. While I'd rather not put a label on it, I know it's not how people will do things. That's why I came up with the Radix Fidem name; I wanted something nebulous for what will surely become the denominational label.
I'd like to think this thing we are doing would be really good for a massive number of people, but I have no idea if that's where it's headed. The Lord hasn't shown me anything about that. While it's remained tiny so far, I'm deeply convicted that tribulation will change that. For now, all I can say is that using the Net has a very limited future as a means of spreading this idea. And I have no idea how we would spread it offline, because there's too many variables right now. We can't do what mainstream churches have done up to now, so it has to be something different.
Barring any clearer sense of mission, I've been trying to make sure I enunciate a clear image of Bible teaching and some structural ideas of how to proceed. That's as much as I can offer right now. God is our Publicist, so it really depends on how He wants to do it, when the time comes.
I'm not leading anything; I'm just the guy who discovered something God was doing and I've invited anyone who wants a share of it to dig right in. I've indicated in the past that it's very hard for us to assess where God is going with this thing we all share. My vision doesn't include that. How about yours? All I can say is that I'm pulling out answers I could never find before, and it seems the rest of you have been looking for something like this. But whether it's a concerted search for that one precious pearl, like with me, or just stumbling across that treasure while pursuing something else, it's worth our whole lives when we find it.
For quite some time I've insisted that this should not be a denomination. It was intended to be a meta-religion: A faith-based search for the underlying structure of religion. Of course, I fully expect someone in the future will try to turn it into a denomination. That's how Western folks are programmed. There's nothing I can do to prevent that, but I'm trying to make it a doctrine that we don't do that.
Somewhere down the road in front of me, the Lord indicates I'll be leading a local group of some kind. I'll do my best to distinguish between that local body and the teaching behind how I do religion. I keep trying to do that with my writing, leaving the door open for someone to find their own way to manifest something deeper that will bind us all together. While I'd rather not put a label on it, I know it's not how people will do things. That's why I came up with the Radix Fidem name; I wanted something nebulous for what will surely become the denominational label.
I'd like to think this thing we are doing would be really good for a massive number of people, but I have no idea if that's where it's headed. The Lord hasn't shown me anything about that. While it's remained tiny so far, I'm deeply convicted that tribulation will change that. For now, all I can say is that using the Net has a very limited future as a means of spreading this idea. And I have no idea how we would spread it offline, because there's too many variables right now. We can't do what mainstream churches have done up to now, so it has to be something different.
Barring any clearer sense of mission, I've been trying to make sure I enunciate a clear image of Bible teaching and some structural ideas of how to proceed. That's as much as I can offer right now. God is our Publicist, so it really depends on how He wants to do it, when the time comes.