Talk:Network Guidelines

These are not public forums.

They are private forums with a religious purpose based on the doctrines of Christ.

We generally do not have a vetting process to let people on the groups but if they do not respect or honor the purpose of the network groups they will be moderated and even removed.

• "The purpose of the Google email groups is to form a network of local CORE assemblies where people can seek to do what the early Church did - to love one another through mutual service in the character of Christ."

Those who abuse these groups by "Soliciting, arguing, debating, farming emails or promoting personal beliefs, especially when they are contrary to the primary purpose" should expect to be moderated.

I encourage everyone to examine the guidelines for these groups because once you are here you have begun the vetting process. DO NOT

When people have decided to not use these groups for their purpose they will be moderated.

We have had alternative discussion groups connected to the preparing you family from the beginning and anyone who reads the Network Guidelines to see what is considered abuse .

• Church https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/theekklesiachurch/info

If people abuse the purpose of the Network they will be moderated or removed as a part of the vetting process.

No one is allowed to subvert the the groups or use them for another purpose yet people try.

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Everyone who is on these email groups should understand that these groups are here to help you form a Living Network of local CORE assemblies where people can seek to do what the early Church did - to love one another through mutual service in the character of Christ.

If you want to congregate with existing congregation let us know and someone can contact you.

People who are congregating can volunteer as contact ministers and if their minister thinks they are ready we can give them a moderator position on the group.

Apostasy of the Heart

At the time of Christ the Levites, who had been the Church in the wilderness, had been corrupted by false interpretations of the Torah. Christ was not just a reformer but would take the government away from the Pharisees who were a art of the corruption and appoint the government to another called out group.

But that called out early Church was doing things much different than the Modern Christians. Why should we think that the modern Church can have so many things wrong and expect to find the same type of fellowship in those who are seeking the kingdom that we once had in those churches.

Wen they come in congregation they often complain that they do not feel the love they are looking for. I am sure that Jesus did not always feel loved.

Do you gather to be loved or to love others. Often people who have suffered the abandonment of love are the first to leave a congregation.

Jesus warns about such love.

"For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them." Luke 6:32

The Bite of Abandonment

Yet, at the first sign of conflict or even less than the warmest of affectionate fellowship people often abandon the congregation they say the intend to love. This is nothing more than the spirit of abandonment often results from unresolved past trauma trying to find a home in your own hearts.

What is the cure?

As always forgiveness in action.

So therefore brothers:

Be thankful for an imperfect congregation for they challenge your ability to love others like Christ who said ".... Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" Matthew 5:44

What parent can stop loving their children the first time they are less than saints. Did God the Father abandon you the first tie you sinned? Did Christ abandon the apostles as they fell short and bickered among themselves?

"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." John 14:21

We are to Keep the Commandments, one of which is to love one another as Christ loved us.

"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Hebrews 10:25

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• "Bishops, presbyters(Elder) and deacons occupy in the church the same positions as those which were occupied by Aaron, his sons, and the Levites in the temple." Jerome, Ep. 146

The early Church did not depend upon a centralized treasury nor men who called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other and neither did the Levites. They did not pray to the fathers of the earth but to their Father who art in Heaven. Those prayers were often answered by the Holy Spirit living in the hearts of the men and women as they freely assembled through faith, hope and charity and the perfect law of liberty.

Some people believe “Capitalism enables the richest few to control everything for their sole benefit.” They believe that “Efficient rationing by the State would allow everyone to have the ability to get everything they need to have at least close to the same quality of life as everyone else.”

Rome tried state control of the means of production and they got chaos, economic decline and eventually collapse. While the Roman empire was suffering under runaway inflation, forced price controls, regulated rationing and free bread. They still suffered mass shortages.

However the christian community was not only surviving, but thriving. They did this by balancing capitalism with moral virtue and a network of charitable practices rather than the covetous practices of Rome's socialist state. The only reason the rich may have an advantage over the poor because the poor do not come together in a similar system of moral virtue and a network of charity.

Christ had forbid socialism and the use of government control, but not without offering an alternative. One of the basic problems with society today is that it does not understand what the early Christians were doing, including the modern Christians.