There is a strategy behind Radix Fidem, but we don’t know all of it.
What we do know is that God has called some of us to a restoration of some things we believe have been lost since the days of the Apostles. There is no precise list, only a certainty that what we have today is not what they had back then. We are further convinced that some of that lost legacy can be recovered.
But the edges are rather soft and not clearly defined. Only the heart of the matter shines clear and bright. A part of the lost legacy of the First Century Christian religion is the willingness to accept a lack of precision as necessary, somehow essential to the thing itself. It can’t be the same for all of us; we don’t try to nail it down or control it. This is how we find it when the Lord reveals Himself to us.
It’s really not in our hands. This is the essence of faith. I suppose we can guess how these things go from past experience and from human history. Will this become a big thing that grabs the attention of millions? Not unless God wants it that way. There would have to be, at a minimum, someone appointed to bring it to the world’s attention, someone with a calling and access to attention that none of us currently have. Unless God raises up someone like that, we have to content ourselves with obscurity.
To be honest, that obscurity has become a part of my personal vision. That is, the situation awaits dramatic changes before Radix Fidem — or what it represents — can draw a wider notice. Until those changes come, the mission is to stay small as a recognized consequence of how we are called to live. While there are plenty of parallels, we don’t have the same situation that Jesus faced.
Until that big change arises in our world, the best I can do is seek to explain things well enough that folks drawn to such faith can drag their own fleshly minds into a different world. If we can shake loose long encrusted thinking that doesn’t match the truth, we make room for God to fill the void with His revelation. I have a limited ability to put into words my own thoughts, but it seems the Lord makes it work rather well.
My vision need not limit you. Pray for your own guidance and mission. That’s the foundation of the whole thing.
