This is my vision. Share it, steal from it, ignore it or even attack it if that’s how you feel led, but this is the fire in my boiler and it’s full steam ahead for me.
Radix Fidem is fundamentally a virtual covenant community of faith. There will inevitably be localized manifestations, little groups who meet in the flesh, but the underlying nature of this thing is virtual. And during this plague, virtual is all we have. This is a time of training and exploration. How will God work through us to obey His will? How can we exploit this; how can we maximize what God has given us? What is He asking us to do as His children?
Keep this in mind: The inherent nature of Radix Fidem is mystical and otherworldly. We have seen the long history of failure as, even those of good spiritual intention, have utterly failed to change the world. We look at the much vaunted “Christendom” of Western history and see that it never was Christian. While the powers that were did managed to hijack the term “Christian” and give a very unspiritual meaning, that doesn’t change how un-Christlike the results were. And today we are saddled with a whole nation of church-going folks trying to take over the kingdoms of this world.
That is a hellish concept of Christian religion. It is not possible to convert a kingdom of unbelievers. And Christ warned that genuine faith would always be relatively rare, so the notion of a converted nation is flatly anti-Christian. This is a lie the Devil told early and the church leaders bought into it. It’s one of those traps with lures that we should never have desired in the first place.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a kingdom of hearts, not bodies. All those bodies are doomed flesh belonging to the fallen world. When Christ returns, everything fallen humanity has done will be wiped away. That includes all that so-called beautiful art that so many strive to preserve. Enjoy it; let it speak to you, and then let it go. Make some new art that will in turn be destroyed again some day. It’s all ephemeral, and the quicker we get used to thinking that way, the better. It’s not the art, but the artistry and inspiration that comes from God. Nothing we cook up will ever match what God has done in the natural world, and what He continues to do when He changes things. Creation is not a clock wound up and left to run; it’s a living project in God’s hands, a live dramatic presentation.
This is really big, folks. I cannot make it appealing to you; only God can do that. But this is like a moving mountain plowing down everything else in my life that doesn’t belong to the vision. I am intent on building a way of religion and community that exploits the Internet, not an unstable and dying social order. I’m trusting the Lord to touch whomever He wants in on this thing. Nor do I pretend I will steer the whole thing myself. If you get involved, you have a say and I am duty bound to hear it. It’s as much yours as it is mine. That doesn’t mean I abdicate my role as elder, but I believe my track record indicates how I carry that role, and how much I prefer to defer to others who have an interest. I want a share of the blessings God has placed in your life.
Nor is this the next big thing; it’s the same thing I’ve been doing all along. However, I confess that I sense the time is ripe for the next step along that same path. And it feels like a big one. I sense that God is about to reveal something we could not have expected, something that will eclipse a lot of what lies behind us. So if you intend to hang around and watch, I’m giving you a clue that in the near future I’ll be driven to some new efforts. No, I still don’t see it in front of me, but I do know where I have to stand to meet it when it comes.
Here are some things I can suggest: We need talents from God to promote the message in the virtual realm. We need to build a lore of Kingdom living. Given that we cannot, for the time being, build a literal society that demonstrates Biblical Law, we need to build a virtual lore that can in every way possible replicate that. We need stories, real testimonies, fictional works, videos, music, graphics, etc. that can portray the society we would have if it were possible for us all to be in one geographical place. We need a testimony of faith that can be passed across the network, stored and shared via the Internet.
I’m not doing this. I’ll play my part, but this won’t happen if I’m the only one doing the work. I’ll serve to coordinate and keep things on track, if you’ll let me, but I can’t just pull this out of myself. If you want to see a virtual lore of Biblical Law, then start by praying for it. Then listen for when the Lord tells you what your part is.
And if you are going to continue hanging around my blogs, be ready to hear a lot more about this.
(No, this doesn’t mean an end to the mission of Bikepacking in Oklahoma; these things are on two different levels.)
