28 October 2022
I'm a friend, not your guru. This blog is meant to provoke collegial discussions among believers, even if you don't discuss it with me. I will not offer a path that puts me at the head of a movement. If you want a community with a leader, check out the Radix Fidem forum.
If you want a name for what I'm doing here, that's it: Radix Fidem. It's Latin for "root of faith". As the folks on the forum will tell you, it's not a religion. It's meta-religion -- a religious study of how to do religion. That forum is a place to discuss how religion ought to be done. At the same time, there is a quasi-religion going on behind the scenes there. How much fellowship can you have online, without face-to-face encounters? It's not much, but for some of the folks on that forum, it's all they have.
However, the original intent was that each member was at least potentially a house-church planter. Not necessarily a leader; that's a specific calling. Rather, it's that everyone could be a facilitator for the birth of a real-world community. All it takes is a witness of the Covenant, and the Radix Fidem covenant is one example of how to implement the Covenant of Christ in our particular context.
But don't be confused about the purpose of this blog: I have no intention of starting an organization, nor even a movement. I'm asking you to consider certain ideas regardless of your various associations. Yes, I know that embracing some of what I suggest here will make you radioactive to the existing religious institutions, in the US in particular. We aren't bomb throwers, it's just that there are plenty of landmines already laying around. The Covenant pulls the rug out from under the current power structures. Not a single existing institution of human leadership follows the Covenant. Just talking about the actual requirements of the Covenant will get you in trouble sooner or later.
The honest truth is that we just don't have that much time. As our geomagentic shield collapses, the earth becomes increasingly exposed to every little burp from the sun. Just a good solid hit from a substantial CME will shut down the Internet. If the outage persists, our conversation is over. You'll be on your own, unless you manage to cultivate the same conversation with folks in your geographical vicinity. That kind of CME could happen any day now. That's assuming our political and economic troubles don't shut things down first.
That's all the more reason not to start thinking of me as a leader -- I'll be out of reach.
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