18 November 2024
We need to understand something: The word "politics" refers to the whole range of activities aimed at organizing humans into the trap of worldly concern.
The Radix Fidem community has long insisted that we are not organized. The most we might do is coordinate in praying for God to act on some issue, not planning how we will act. Our whole emphasis is breaking down the trap of human instinct for organization at a human level. We are devoted to building a whole mindset of nailing the fleshly nature to the Cross and rejecting worldly concerns.
It's not as if there is no proper moral use for human organization. However, the meaning of "organization" in the context of America means placing yourself at enmity with God's Word. The only valid organization is a tribal and feudal covenant community. This is God's design for us. Every other form cooked up by men is a rejection of God's design.
The biblical model is an extended family in one household. Because the tribal feudal covenant community model requires face-to-face contact on a daily basis, our virtual community isn't really a proper example of this model. Rather, we are simply training ourselves, getting used to the kind of love and care that this model requires. Because of our ambient culture and social fabric here in the America, it is a monumental task just breaking out of that prison. We don't pretend we are a biblical community; we are fully conscious that this is just training through emulation.
Thus, the personal bond of love trumps all things and we are certainly bound to each other in obedience to the Covenant Law of Christ: Love each other as He does. But we do not claim to fulfill the end goal of a covenant household. By no means do we meet the key definition of daily face-to-face contact. This is just a practice run. We have connections, but not the organization.
We all hope that someday we can experience a genuine biblical covenant community. It will require more work and patience than the current situation does. We can estimate what it might look like, but the any realization of this hope must of necessity be shaped by the people and context. It would be wholly unjust for me to prescribe anything specific. Scripture itself left an awful lot of detail to the implementation of the people involved with the resources at hand. The Hebrew mental orientation is that, once you define the materials and purpose, the individual(s) doing the work should be driven by moral truth to some conclusion as to what the product looks like.
The outcome is necessarily an artifact of the culture of those involved. Should a clay pot be tall and thin or squat and wide? A smooth fluted opening or a plain cylinder? Round or some other shape? Should it be decorated or all natural? Will it be thick and chunky or thin like porcelain? God isn't interested in those details. Have you read the description of the Tabernacle in Exodus? It lacks such defining description. It's all just a matter of materials and how the product should work.
The same goes with whatever "church" should be. We have certain ingredients and a purpose given by God, and the rest is for the individuals involved to work out. However, the critical elements are that it should be made up of tribal bonding between people, an eastern feudal structure, based on the shepherd model of leadership, and having the purpose of caring for everyone involved as family.
We can say with some confidence that this doesn't exist anywhere in the world right now. Some elements of this model can be found in portions here and there, but none of us have seen it done under Christ. I'm sure you can find some approach to it within some churches, but not consciously developed for the organization itself. Some is better than nothing and we applaud it where we see it, but we are holding out for the whole package for ourselves. No one is discouraged from joining any organization as they feel led, but we are not an organization ourselves.
All we really have beyond our individual bonds to each other is a common teaching of what we believe God wants for us. Even then, individuals can vary some on the particulars of the teaching. There is no catechism with precise definitions; that's a western obsession that is not part of divine revelation. Each of us are free to characterize things differently. The only standard that gives us an identity is just how different we are from everything else out there. We don't swallow each other's explanations wholly; we tolerate each other's definitions for the sake of fellowship.
I have no doubt the message here will eventually be censored and the individuals who support it will be persecuted. But there is nothing our Enemy (and his lackeys) can do to silence this message. God is our publicist; it's His message in the first place. We have learned to keep full confidence in His power to keep it alive one way or another. Our faith is in Him, the Person, not some organizing principles or formulated statements.
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