24 April 2023
We believe the Lord intends to shake some people loose from the religious mainstream, people who don't belong there. We want to offer them a place to call "home" for their faith, at least until they have a clear vision of what God requires of them. We would be very surprised if that number turns out to be substantial. We expect it to be few.
We do not suffer from visions of changing the world. What we do is not for everyone. This is not like the gospel in the First Century AD, something totally new. The general perception of the Radix Fidem path is it's just another bunch of kooks, not something that everyone has been seeking.
We don't claim to have the only true gospel message. It's the one for us, and probably for a few more people who simply haven't encountered it. Yes, many of them are already in a church somewhere, but some will be outside of any organized religion. The only difference is that those from inside tend to be more familiar with some of the terminology we use. How else could we talk about it, unless we use those familiar concepts?
Most of those already joining our conversation are not leaders in the Body of Christ. That doesn't matter. The Lord can call forth the leaders He wants using whatever testimony these people have. All it takes is faithfulness; God cries out to the world through that. Nobody slapped together a list of ideas just to form a group. We've been talking about this for years, and have come to a consensus about certain things.
We agree together that faithfulness looks like this and this. We hope that our frame of reference is helpful. Feel free to write your own, if these don't work for you. The meaning of Radix Fidem is the approach, not the destination. It's not a recipe, but a list of ingredients that you might include. Try it out until you have a better idea what God requires of you.
Time is short. The secular authorities have already made it clear they intend to prevent anyone from offering online a message that they don't control. The Radix Fidem library is all PDFs you can print or links to physical books on Amazon (sold at cost). The one exception is the zipped archive of the previous version of this blog. They are provided in case you aren't up to designing your own curriculum. You can get the source documents in just about any format you like; just ask.
We want you to be ready to handle the coming apocalypse. But even without that, what could possibly be better than walking in stronger faith? We are challenging the old notions about faith with what we are convinced are even older notions. This is both, a bad time to be alive, and a fascinating time to see God's hand at work. This is also one of the hardest religions you'll ever try.
We define religion as your response to God's claim on your life. Obviously, making Jesus Lord demands changes. Most of us have been conditioned to go with what our parents did or to pick from a smorgasbord of religions. Our culture and history treat religion as a social function, not something that rules your life. It's an option, not a necessity. But we can't live that way. Faith is the foundation of our very existence in this world, so we are searching for a way to express that faith that nobody else is doing.
We want something more demanding; it should consume your life. There's no doubt it calls for us to pull back from some elements of the social structure around us. How much and what kind of separation isn't that obvious, so it remains quite fuzzy for now. As the US falls apart, the context will change and answers for today might not work tomorrow. Over the next twenty years, the human race will experience things no one alive has ever seen, culminating in natural disasters we can only guess.
So, we are making this up as we go. Some items seem rather obvious, and that's what I and others have been teaching. Other issues are likely more contextual, and with a very unstable context, at that. We are hesitant to bind anyone to something that won't work. That means being cautious to avoid handing out solutions to people who don't share quite the same context. We keep telling people they'll have to make their own decisions on some things.
We call for people to cultivate a strong sense of mission and calling, and a good connection with their convictions. To a very large degree, you are on your own with God. We won't pretend to speak for Him beyond what He requires of us individually. We'd like to see more people seize the initiative and experiment with those things that aren't so obvious. You are walking in the domain God has given you. Don't wait on us to fill in the blanks.
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