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Free Church Report '''[[FCRTOC|Table of Contents]]''' and [[The Kingdom Study Group|Free Church Report Call Schedule]] <Br>Recording '''coming''' #25 [http://www.hisholychurch.net/audio/FCRplacemark.mp3 Play or download]
|* [[2 Corinthians 13]]:1 "This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. [[Two_or_three_witnesses|In the mouth of two or three witnesses]] shall every word be established."
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| * Patterns of [[Tens]] serving in a [[daily ministration]] through a common [[communion]] according to the [[thanksgiving]] of [[Christ]].
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| * “[[Gospel of the kingdom]]” is that if you [[repent]] and seek the [[righteousness]] of God you can be ''ruled by God'' and be free of [[Benefactors]] who exercise authority.
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| : Besides forsaking the [[covetous practices]] of the world the people must come together to practice [[Pure Religion]] they do not have the works of faith found amongst the [[Eucharist]] of the [[early Church]].
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| * "Central banking, usury, and debasing of coins were evidence of a problem that originated in the people." <Ref> "Anthony and Cleopatra had lowered the purity of their silver coins by 10%. Nero reduced the weight of the denarii from 3.5 grams to 3.36 and their fineness from 98% to 93.5% silver. Before the middle of the third century coins had become 40% silver and by its end was just .02% silver.[6] Inflation continued from 600% to over 40,000%. The price of a modius of wheat went from 8 drachmas to 120,000.[7] In the fourth century Diocletian attempted to enforce price controls with capital punishment. Society was crushed. A pound of gold came to cost 2.1 billion denarii." See [[Temple of Diana]].</Ref>
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| "Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, ..."
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| Trust and honor are the currency of a free society.
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| '''Questions'''
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| * What is [[worship]]?
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| * What is the [[Eucharist]] of Christ?
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| * Are there [[social contract]]s in the kingdom of God?
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| : How do you "lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven..."?<Ref>[[Matthew 6]]:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:</Ref>
* "Central banking, usury, and debasing of coins were evidence of a problem that originated in the people." [1]
"Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, ..."
Trust and honor are the currency of a free society.
Supreme court reference Not a party... “No private person has a right to complain, by suit in court, on the ground of a breach of Constitution. The constitution it is true, is a compact, but he is not a party to it. The states are party to it”.[3]
The minister of the Church
appointed by Christ is appointed as a steward of God. This is
confirmed or established by two or three witnesses, by the people in
congregation and by an ordained Minister. The people may withdraw
their support and the overseer may withdraw his witness of the
minister. All must remain virtuous to maintain a viable balance of
right and responsibility as a community and kingdom of love and
thanksgiving.
Ten overseers serving 100
ministers may serve 1000 elders and their families. Each is concerned
with the needs of those connected by the bonds of love. Through the
free communion of Christ in this sacred network a bond may grow that
unites the whole Church as a virtual nation of charity, by hope and
faith with fidelity to God. This is the kingdom of God in Spirit and
in truth. It is the “Gospel of the kingdom”. It is the
way by which men can be ruled by God as free souls,1
rather than the benefactors who exercise authority,2
make men merchandise and human resources.3
The called out men
appointed by God to serve are recognized by the people who seek to
righteously worship at the charitable altars of the God, instead of
the gods of the world. Worship service should consist of actual
public services4
by, of, and for the people. The society that had benefactors who
exercised authority fell into corruption and suppressed the liberty
on the land. The choice of the people was diminished and abated.
Those who were the followers of Christ formed a repentant network of
souls who loved God and Christ by loving one another in justice and
mercy, in charity and hope.
This was the thanksgiving
or Eucharist of Christ.5
That heavenly practice and practical participation formed the union
of brotherhood that was the “pure religion” of the
church. The people were bound together by love of God and one
another. During the rise of the early Church governments were
collapsing under the growing corruption that comes with power,
economies staggered under spiraling inflation once the silver was
removed from the coins of the empire, the families failed as they
depended more on a central system of welfare rather than each other.
There was a concentration of power and a decline of individual
liberty. Depressions, famine, and war produced the devastated
societies of the world.
The spirit of Christ living
in the praxis of His Holy Eucharist, growing in the hearts and minds
of those early Christians, sustained that society of free souls
nurtured by the responsibility of liberty. The more the congregations
of the Church were excluded and even persecuted by the jealousy,
envy, and hate of the world the stronger they became in faith and
those unbreakable bonds of love.
To assist the mutual
service of worshiping God by obeying His commandment to love thy
neighbor as thy self, Christ instituted the Church. Families and
congregations seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness can be
provided with a variety of services that contribute to that righteous
search.
In Ancient times there were
large gatherings at annual feasts where people renewed old friendship
and affections and the young spawned new social bonds in friendship
and Holy Matrimony. These domestic unions were essential to maintain
the body. They nurtured the loyalty of love and a national
brotherhood.
The treaties
of that nation were made daily between families with intimate unions
of fruit and love. The people could not be bound by clandestine
meetings on foreign shores. A nation of liberty must be bound by
faith, hope, and charity, which is love. This is the kingdom of
Heaven at hand.
1Genesis
12:5, Ezekiel 13:18, 19 22:25, Revelation 18:13 Numbers 30:2 “If
a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul
with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to
all that proceedeth out of his mouth.” [oath]
2Matthew
20:25, Mark 10:42, Luke 22:25. See also the Appendix 2.
32
Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
4See
The Liturgy of the Church in
the book The Free Church Report.
5Eucharist
means thankful for the opportunity of giving. The Communion in the
Church often consisted of sacks of grain or bread not merely a crumb
or wafer of bread. See Appendix 1.
The Free Church Report presents a unique path for the modern Church according to the nature of the first century Church by explaining the duty and purposes of that institution appointed by Christ. While Rome declined under runaway inflation, corrupt government, martial law, and endless threats of war, the Christians found an alternative to the men who “called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other.”
The early Christian knew rights and responsibilities were indivisible. They sought the right to be ruled by God by taking back their responsibility, through the service of “called out” ministers who lived in the world, but were not of it. Their government benefits came through a divine network instituted in their hearts and minds by faith, hope, and charity under the perfect law of liberty as their Qorban of the unrighteous mammon failed the Roman society. Order
↑ "Anthony and Cleopatra had lowered the purity of their silver coins by 10%. Nero reduced the weight of the denarii from 3.5 grams to 3.36 and their fineness from 98% to 93.5% silver. Before the middle of the third century coins had become 40% silver and by its end was just .02% silver.[6] Inflation continued from 600% to over 40,000%. The price of a modius of wheat went from 8 drachmas to 120,000.[7] In the fourth century Diocletian attempted to enforce price controls with capital punishment. Society was crushed. A pound of gold came to cost 2.1 billion denarii." See Temple of Diana.
↑Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
↑Supreme Court of Georgia, Padelford, Fay ∓mp; Co. vs Mayor and Alderman, City of Savannah, 14 Ga. 438,520 (1854)
