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[[File:Jesusfeeds.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Many institutions and groups identify themselves as "church" but the [[church legally defined]] should consistently conform to the [[early Church]] and [[the way]] of Christ. <Br>
[[Abraham]], [[Moses]], [[Baptism|John the Baptist]], [[Jesus]] and the [[early Church]] advocated a [[Daily ministration]] for the needy of the Christian community that was dependent on [[Charity]] only. Its [[daily bread]] was not like the system of [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] nor the [[Bread and circuses|free bread]] of [[Rome]] provided by men of ''governments who [[exercise authority]] one over the other'' through [[force]]d offerings which Christ forbid. The Church and [[the Congregation]]s they served in mutual [[love]] was a free form of self "government of, by, and for the people"<Ref>"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People." General Prologue to the [[John Wycliffe]] Bible translation of 1384, as quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg : An Address (1906) </Ref> operating according to the [[perfect law of liberty]] as Christ [[commanded]].<Br>The world is seeing a degeneration of the [[virtue]]s and [[social bonds]] of society which is the result of a 100 years of [[Legal charity]] and the [[covetous practices]] of a [[daily ministration]] of [[public religion]] because the [[Modern Church]] has abandoned The Way of Christ for the way of [[Nimrod]] and the [[corban]] of the [[Pharisees]]. We need to [[repent]] and return to the way of the [[early Church]]. It was their practice of [[Pure Religion]] through [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]] that brought them into a [[Christian conflict]] with  [[Public religion]] of the [[World]].]]

== The Early Church ==

The early Church in general was able cultivate the redeeming character of [[social virtues]] among the people through the moral practices of the [[Doctrine of Jesus]]. But because its structure was divinely designed to not only regenerate the soul of the people it was able  to save them during the decline and fall of civilization itself. 

As nation after nation [[degenerate]]d due to shifts in the moral cultures of their corrupt governments and societies  those people who followed [[The Way]] of [[Christ]] were able to endure, survive, and even thrive.

== Position of the Church ==

The position of The [[Early Church]] in the society of Christians was vastly different than what we see today. 

The original term ''Church'' in the Bible was identified by the Greek term  "[[ekklesia]]" literally translated as the "[[called out]]". 

Those [[called out]] minister could be called a form of ''[[clergy]]'' but their duties, responsibilities, and limiting criteria were defined by Christ and may not resemble modern forms [[clergy]]. The engine that drives the [[kingdom of God]], which is [[faith]], is found in the [[heart and mind]] of the individual and it is fueled by the [[Holy Spirit]].

Terms like [[clergy]], [[laity]], [[elder]], [[father]], wife, son, or daughter have there place when properly defined but neither God nor the  [[Holy Spirit]] are a [[respecter of persons]].

Like the "[[Church in the wilderness]]", which consisted of those ministers of a "[[Peculiar people]]" who were "[[called out]]" of the ''camp of the [[golden calf]]'' by [[Moses]]. Those who were "[[called out]]" by [[Jesus]] played a pivotal role in serving the people of the [[early Christian]] community through the free practice of "[[Pure religion]]".

While institutions called ''church'' function drastically different today than the [[early Church]] established by [[Christ]] it is the altered definition of many simple words like "[[Religion]]" and “[[Worship]]" which clouds our understanding of the whole [[Gospel of the kingdom]]. 

[[Seek]]ing that [[kingdom of God]] and the [[righteousness]] of God remains a prime directive of [[Christ]] for those who desire to be His [[follow]]ers.

== The Early Christians ==

The [[Early Christian]]s provided all social welfare for their society through a  [[daily ministration]] funded by  [[charity]] alone. 

[[Rome]] and many [[city-state]]s had systems [[social welfare]] dependent upon [[legal charity]] through the ''power'' of the [[civil law]].<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref>

The [[early Christians]]  were persecuted because they would not apply for the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] nor [[Free bread|free bread]] from  [[Rome]]. 

All "[[legal charity]]" provide by the state was considered to be [[covet]]ous and therefore [[Idolatry]].<Ref name="Isidolatry">{{Isidolatry}}</Ref>

It was the [[public religion]] of [[Rome]] and the [[Imperial Cult of Rome]] which produced the [[Christian conflict]] with the [[private welfare|private religion]] of Christian communities located all over the [[world]] at that time.

== The Early Ministers ==

[[File:paulmosaicgsw.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Paul the Apostle]] was a complex man that spoke to Christians about things hard to understand.  Between 44 and 48 CE Jerusalem was hit hard by a depression. Paul and others were consistently able to collect food and funds to help the needy in a [[daily ministration]] of [[Pure Religion]] across an international [[network]] of [[early Christian]] communities meeting in local [[free assemblies]] according to the [[Tens|pattern]] [[commanded]] by Christ.]]


The ministers, who were the "[[called out]]" or as Jesus called them the "[[little flock]]" and [[appoint]]ed "[[Kingdom of God|a kingdom]]" by [[Christ]], were not allowed to be like the other governments of the [[world]].<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> 

Christian ministers did not ''[[Exercises authority|exercise authority]] one over the other'' but still provided a [[daily ministration]] to those in need or want. 

[[Early Christians]] did not [[covet]] their neighbor's goods through the [[Benefactors]] of those other governments of the [[world]] who were ''the [[fathers]] of the earth''. 

We were not to [[Pray|apply]] to those "[[Fathers]]" to receive what was called the [[wages of unrighteousness]]. 

This practice of providing [[welfare]] through [[charity]] alone was called "[[Pure Religion]]". 
  
The [[Modern Church]] does many things the [[Early Church]] refused to do which got [[Christian conflict|Christians persecuted]] by different governments of the [[world]] from time to time. 

Unless [[Modern Christians]] [[repent]] of their [[appetite]] for the [[dainties]] of rulers provided through [[legal charity]] of the modern [[welfare state]] and return to the ''traditions'' of the [[Early Christians]] they are not really following Christ but in fact [[workers of iniquity]] through their [[covetous practices]].


[[File:Example.jpg|right|link=https://www.hisholychurch.org/study/history/Essenes2.php|300px|thumb| The [[Essenes]] disagreed with the [[Pharisees]] about the interpretation of the [[Torah]]. <Br>They kept the [[Passover]], [[Baptism|baptized]], [[care]]d for one another through [[charity]]. <Br>Many of the Jews who were not [[Pharisees]] and formed the early Christian community. The way they saw the original Torah was more in line with what Jesus said. They would not take [[oaths]] which Jesus condemned. They gathered in the [[tens]], hundreds and thousands which Jesus [[commanded]]. They would not apply for the [[free bread]] of [[Rome]] or [[Herod]] provided by their system of [[Corban]] which Jesus was against. They also did not believe that the [[Torah]] called for this animal sacrifice practiced by the [[Pharisees]]. The [[modern Christian]] accepts the Pharisaical interpretation of things like [[stoning]] which seems so strange since Jesus said they did error about a number of things which evidently included [[stoning]].]]

We should not concede to the modern definitions of what a church should be or do. The [[Early Church]] and the [[free assemblies]] of voluntary [[congregation]]s that were served by ministers wh met the criteria of Christ  were clearly doing things far different than the [[modern Church]]es made by men

Most of the man made institutional churches and many of the [[home church]]es despise a form of godliness have more in common with what the [[Early Christians]] called "[[paganism]]". 

This was because of the people's dependence upon "[[public religion]]" which provided the [[free bread] and service offered by the governments that "[[exercise authority]]".<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> 

David, Proverbs, Paul, Peter and Jesus [[warnings|warned]] that those [[tables]] which provided for the [[social welfare]] of he people by rulers who "[[exercise authority]]" like the gentile  governments of the [[world]] were only offering the [[masses]] deceitful [[dainties]].

Those systems were a "[[snare|snare and a trap]]",<Ref name="snaretrap">{{snaretrap}}</Ref> which make men what Peter called "[[merchandise]]" and even "[[curse children]]". 

Jesus even told us those [[Corban|systems of civil sacrifice]] of the [[world]] ''made the word of God to none effect''. 

Jesus made it very clear that it was not to be that way with His followers.<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> 

We offer a way to form and connect in a network of congregations so people can do what the [[Early Church]] and the [[free assemblies]] of congregations were doing.


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