Opening Insights
Jesus brought many gifts and lessons to the world. His wisdom, insight, compassion and love for humanity echoed through the world and continues to fill our hearts and souls today. However, principles without action = sin… as we see and experience throughout the world today.
There is corruption in the hearts, minds and souls of man and it infects and affects our businesses, families, schools, churches and community organizations.
It is time for humanity to start living the principles we preach, instead of speaking about them. It is time for Christians to start walking the path of Grace that Jesus did, instead of relying on him to carry us forward. Grace is God’s RESPONSE to our ACTION. Thus, we need to return to our foundations…
Informational Insights
The foundation of Christianity is based on two core commandments / gifts from God:
In Mark, when asked “which is the great commandment in the law?” the Greek New Testament reports that Jesus answered,
“Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God, The Lord is One;
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”,
before also referring to a second commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Talking about what we need to do is not going to solve the problems we have nor help the Church or the world. We need to unite and collaborate to form a real community of Disciples committed to the Core of Christianity: To Love God with All Our Hearts, Souls and Minds and to Love our Neighour as we Love Ourselves.
In so doing, we need to commit ourselves to The Four Absolutes as defined by The Oxford Group: Honesty, Selflessness, Purity of Intention and Love, and brought alive by the founders and early adopters of Alcoholics Anonymous.
These Four Absolutes are guidelines to help determine whether a course of action is directed by God. The Four Absolutes seem to have first appeared in a book by Robert E. Speer, titled The Principles of Jesus. In the Chapter, Jesus and Standards, Speer laid down Four Principles (honesty, purity, selflessness and love) that he believed represented the distilled, uncompromising, moral principles taught by Jesus.
The reality is many of us have lost our way. WE KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT WE HAVE NOT LEARNED HOW TO DO IT. The path way to HEAVEN ON EARTH is available to all of us if we are willing to walk it together. That being said we as a community, religion and people, need to come together in solidarity of The Four Absolutes, of not what we want or what we need but the principle foundations of what we believe and the stand we all take individually and collectively. Jesus, like all great leaders had a team behind him, walking with him and carrying his message. The disciples could not live forever, and it is now time that we individually and collectively become disciples for Jesus.
Solidarity cannot be found within the confines of the Church walls or offices, or homes, but rather in the gathering of multiple perspectives in a non-confrontational, non-judging and focused driven online community, where we will discover how to put principles before personalities and create as God intended our HEAVEN ON EARTH.
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Possibilities for Consideration
Take a moment and examine…
- As you reviewed the material above, what stood out to you?
- What is the potential impact, economically and/or socially?
- What action is needed to stop or support this idea?
- You may want to consider whether you:
- want to be aware of,
- should become supportive of,
- would want to be active in this topic?
Add Your Insight
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Being willing is not enough; we must do.
LEONARDO DA VINCI