A Congregation of ministers who meet the criteria of Christ may be called a religious Order. The twelve apostles were a religious Order, in fact the called-out of Christ were a religious Order and the beginning of the Church at Pentecost.
The Israelite people wandered in the desert under a new system of government, not like the system of Egypt which held them in bondage. They were told never to go back to that type of system again. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes under the supreme law of the land, the Ten Commandments.
God’s government is dependent upon freewill offerings to the church in the wilderness, the called outLevites, through faith, hope and charity. Living in such a system of liberty changes the souls of men and women. It alters their thinking and the way they live and relate to each other. This system of voluntary self-governance brought the people together as a nation in a hostile land by binding them with love of neighbor, not social contracts and covenants with the institutions of men.
The way of freedom is The Way of God’s kingdom, and the Church established by Christ was to serve that kingdom of righteousness. The people are bound together in mutual service of charity and love of God and each other. They sought to be free souls under God in the "world" men create, but not of it.
No system can guarantee the morality of the people. Some systems of self-government have a proclivity to lead men to virtue, and some lead men to corruption. Liberty under God requires the daily practice of those virtues that mark His Character. This is why Jesus told us to seek the kingdom and His righteousness.
His kingdom of God at hand is a way of life. It is vastly different from what the Pharisees had come to believe concerning the prophets and the nature of God’s government. The Gospel of the kingdom is for the living. The kingdom is a way to live in the “world” but not of it. The world that Jesus' kingdom was not a part of was the world of the gentile nations, where men who called themselves benefactors exercised authority one over the other.
Jesus came to return every man to his family and every man to his possessions as a free soul under his Father. But that requires that each of us believe in Him and His kingdom and to strive for and seek that kingdom of God and His righteousness with our whole heart mind and soul.
Jesus called out men to feed His sheep; to serve them in their search and striving. He appointed the kingdom to those men and told them to go out into the "world" and explain to them the nature of the kingdom. He said those who have the ears to hear and the eyes to see will know and follow in His Way.
We should love God and His commandments, not merely an image of Him created by men. We should not oppress, steal from or injure others. We should tell the truth in word and deed with no deception found in us. We should not follow in the ways of the Pharisees and their system of Corban which made the word of God to none effect. Nor should we return to the ways of Egypt because the Lord has taken us from there, never to return.
We should not covet our neighbors’ goods or family, their wife, sons or daughters or oppress them through the agency of others. We should not be like the benefactors of other nations who exercise authority one over the other, nor should we serve them or their gods.
"The Free Church Report" was compiled in the hope that we may develop a wider view of the message and mission of the gospel of the kingdom and the role the Church did and can play in the seeking of that kingdom and its righteousness. This book is complimented by two other books, The Covenants of the gods and Thy Kingdom Comes. The former speaks of the contractual nature of governments created by men, and the latter tells a history of the Kingdom and its nature and purpose in the everyday lives of men and women seeking freedom under God.
Brother Gregory was born in America in 1948. His father was a practicing attorney, and his mother the daughter of Norwegian immigrants. He grew up in southeast Texas attending private school.
As a young man, he entered the seminary where he studied Latin, Greek, and theology. In the course of his studies, he began to understand the unique purposes and practices of the early Church. Concealed for centuries in ancient libraries, obscured by the bias of historians, covered and concealed by imposed doctrines and dogmas, forgotten by the distractions of modern society until the simple truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God at hand became the hidden secrets of the ancients.
"In the quest for the simple truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God at hand that which was forgotten shall blossom again."
Shepherd
That quest for truth has given him an iconoclastic perception of law, history, language, and our modern opinion of the prophets. In tearing down the altars of superstition and peeling away the fallacies and falsehoods of a fatuous faith, the fullness of the Gospel of the Kingdom is uncovered in a revealing examination of rituals, rites, and religions.
Gregory is the author of several books, dozens of pamphlets, audio and video recordings, and He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including CNN International, and is a regular contributor to NewsWithViews.com. He has appeared on radio and television preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God at hand, and the perfect law of liberty within our reach. His controversial books include The Covenants of the gods, Thy Kingdom Comes, The Free Church Report, The Higher Liberty, and Contract, Covenants and Constitution, which all help put the Kingdom of God and man’s relationship with the God of creation and the gods of the “world” into a new perspective and light.
Married in 1973, he is the father of six children with a growing number of grandchildren. He now lives near Summer Lake, Oregon, where he continues to care for his family, overseeing the formation and edification of the Church established by Christ in the hearts and minds of those who will seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness with their whole heart, mind, and soul in a Living Network of love and faith.
