Congregations
Congregations of the Church
The Kingdom of God is first established in the hearts and minds of a free assembly or Congregation of the people who come together in fellowship and love of Christ seeking to know and do the will of the Father without coveting our neighbor's goods or exercising authority one over another.
A congregations of record (CORE) is a gathering of people who seek to bear witness to Christ's kingdom by seeking to love one another according to the perfect law of liberty, through faith hope and charity. By their mutual and diligent love for one another through a mutual daily sacrifice (Corban) a Congregation of Record may become a Congregation of Testimony.
Many say they believe with their lips but few testify to that belief with their actions.
- The minister of a congregation of record (CORE) is chosen and entrusted with an offering by the people through an election in consensus by the elders of each family unit. That offering is evidence of our trust in the ways of charity, the spirit of hope, and the exercise of faith in the perfect law of liberty endowed by our God.
The precept of loving one another as Christ loved you is not limited within the congregation of a local Church. To share in the whole body of the Church it is essential that each congregation and Church care about other churches as much as they care about themselves.
- “For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:” Isaiah 28:10
The change that comes from being Baptized in the spirit of Christ Jesus, receiving Him as Lord of your life, is only visible to those who have eyes to see. The world, not seeing these things of the spirit, needs evidence that is visible to the people of the world. Each member of a congregation and minister must define their ministry according to the spirit of the Father in their heart and mind.[1]
Each member or family of a congregation is an altar of earth. The congregations of ministers are altars of stone. All operate together in a network of charity so that a nation of believers might remain a peculiar people.
God sees the heart and mind of mankind, but the world often requires something more tangible as a evidence in witness. His Holy Church offers a system for the edification and protection of the free Church and congregation which may assist in the maintenance and nurturing of a free people under God.
A congregation of record seeking other congregations and coming together in a network of people seeking the wholeness and holiness of a righteous government needs to manifest that oneness with Christ and the Father both in Spirit and in truth so that may live in the world but not of it.
Making a record of a Church and congregation: http://www.hisholychurch.org/ministries/church/index.html
Congregation
- A congregation is a free assembly.
- It is bound only by bonds of love.
- It should be connected in a spiritual realm sense.
- It should strive to be consistent with the character of the creator.
- It should seek to be a group acting in one accord.
- It is usually composed of groups of families which may be served by one minister.
- It has no common purse of rights.
- It is not a corporation or an unincorporated association.
- It is not a legal entity.
- Each family’s spokesmen is its elder or their representative.
- Two or more elders form a congregation
- Ten families are generally thought to be ideal.
- Any gathering of congregations is also a congregation in assembly.
In order for a congregation to form a part of the kingdom it must gather with other congregations by choosing a minister. That minister facilitates the charity within the congregation. That minister's job other than facilitating the charity within the congregation is to connect the congregation of the people with other congregations.
The Minister
- A minister is a legal representative of Christ who came to save, serve and set free.
- A minister is a titular servant of to the people in like manner.
- A minister is a member of the Church.
- A minister's Membership is by appointment or anointing, ex officio or ordination.
- A minister is part of the body of the Church
- A minister is a clerk or "clergy" in one form of government called the Church.
Church
- It composed of the "called out" ministers of Christ.
- It consists of the ministers of his kingdom at hand.
- It is the legal entity of Christ.
- It is the institution of God appointed by Christ.
- It is “A body or community of Christians", those following Christ.
- It is united under one form of government by the profession of one faith.
- It is observes the same rituals and ceremonies.
- It does not include the congregation as a legal entity but in the most in its most general sense:
- It is the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ,
- It is to receive, preserve, and propagate His doctrines and ordinances.
- The individual congregations should be linked as one body Spirit in both practical and real ways by their charitable communion through their Ministers of service in a virtual congregation of love within the mission of the Church and purpose of Christ with the help and service of the network of Bishops and Archbishops chosen by them.
Terms like bishop and archbishop or liturgy are common terms in the modern Church, but in the first century Church they often had a very different meaning and purpose.
"Bishop
- A Bishop is a Minister of ministers. Bishop is the English version of the Greek word episkopos, which means overseer. He is a Servant to Ministers. Bishops are chosen by unanimous agreement of two or more Ministers from amongst themselves and his appointment is recognized by another Bishop before the witness of others to that office. The congregation has no determination in the choice of Bishops, but in return the bishops have no authority or direct obligation to the congregation. His obligation is to the Ministers who have chosen him. [See qualifications]. His office of service extends no farther than those ministers who chose him. His authority is titular and his duty is to serve."
- Archbishop. An Archbishop should be a titular Minister too. The word archbishop is Greek for chief overseer. The term arche is more about responsibility than power. Archbishops are chosen by unanimous agreement of two or more Bishops from amongst themselves or two or more Archbishops from among themselves and appointed and anointed by another Archbishop before the witness of others and anointed to that office. His office of service extends no farther than the Bishops who have chosen him. His authority is titular and his duty is to serve."
Nicolaitans are the “conquered people” who have lost access to some God endowed right of choice. See Appendix 2. Free Church Report
The word ‘liturgy’ is from the Greek word leitourgi and leitourgos, meaning public service and public servant respectively. Liturgy meant the manner in which the Church provided its public service to the congregation.
- “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jude 1:4
The government of God is one of service and the ministers of that government are truly public servants. The people are responsible for themselves in a network of faith, hope and charity working out their own salvation under the perfect law of liberty. When the people depended upon the offerings of charity rather than the compelled contributions of Egypt, Rome, Judea, or Babylon, etc. they must change. They have a new master they pray to who art in Heaven. That master rules by love and the people are to love one another as Christ loved us all. The Church is true government of public servants who operates a system based on love, not force. [3]
John the Baptist and Jesus offered a different way than the world at that time.[4] It is a different way than the worldat this time. It is the Way of Christ. Over the ages, the actual corporeal and incorporeal service of the church to the people became little more than superstitious religious ceremonies designed to give the people a feeling of being justified in the delusion that they were worshiping God. In truth they were actually sacrificing upon the altars of the Nicolaitans.[5] this is the error of Balaam and the antithesis of Christ.
In the early centuries the people were dependent upon the networkof the Church to sustain them in the hard times of Roman and Judaic collapse. Today, many Churches preach tithing, but send the people to benefactors who exercise authority one over the other, contrary to the precepts of Christ. His Holy Church has no authority to dictate a ‘unified liturgy’. That is to say, we cannot compel the manner of public service, like other governments do, or exercise authority over the choice and liberty of each other.
The church does have an obligation to care for the needs of the flock of Christ, the people hearing His voice and seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness. It has a mission to serve the people so that they need not pray to the benefactors of the world. This article is about that network used by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus Christ to edify the Kingdom of God which is within our reach.
Every man and woman must strive to follow the precepts of Christ in protecting one another as God's altars of living earth. The ministers of the Church---who set aside some of their their personal liberty to serve God by serving His people---are the living stones of His altar, performing an important function of representation. His Church must preach the kingdom of love and liberty. It is to facilitate the communion of the people in faith, hope, and charity so that they learn and live the gospel of the kingdom as free souls under God. We must all unlearn the ways and the practices of the worldthat are contrary to the ways of Christ and His Holy first century Church, which have crept into our thinking over the last two millennia.[6]
We must reexamine the meaning of phrases like worship services, kingdom of God, first century Church, congregation, and pure religion. We must look at the particular directives of Christ and show true faith in the whole gospel of the Kingdom.
We are told that we should not be like the benefactors and public servants of the “world” who rule over the manner and means of the sacrifices of the people by ruling over the people and the people ruling over their neighbor, exercising authority in the provision of their own welfare. Such welfare has always been a snare and a stumbling block for the people, from David[7] to Paul[8] and even down unto this very day. Through covetousness, such systems make the people little more than human resources, [9] slaves to serve the will of depots and tyrants.
The leaders of the Church are the antithesis of and alternative to institutions of men which exercise authority one over the other. They show their faith in Christ by their provision of good service.[10]
- “Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.” Luke 12:37
The people who seek the righteousness of Christ and His kingdom care for the welfare of each other through the bonds of love, in a network of charity ministered to by those living stones of God's altar of their choosing. Through a process of forgiveness and a communion of thanksgiving, the Holy Spirit shall write the liturgy of God on the minds and hearts of the whole body of Christ, providing salvation in this world and the next. Ministries > Congregation
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Footnotes
- ↑ Philippians 2:12 “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
- ↑ The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- ↑ "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But it shall not be so among you..."Luke 22:25, Matthew 20:25, Mark 10:42
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
- ↑ Nicolaitans are the “conquered people” who have lost access to some God endowed right of choice. See Appendix 2. Free Church Report
- ↑ Galatians 2:4 “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:”
- ↑ Psalms 69:22 “Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.”
- ↑ Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
- ↑ 2 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”.
- ↑ Luke 22:26-29 “But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”