My Theology
To remove the obstacles
of the Self is to allow the Soul within each one of us – that is God – to flow
through thereby realizing the truest nature of our Mind, of our Being. That is my purpose for serving as a minister
of the Gospel. It is my philosophy of
ministry to embody the place of a midwife.
As one in such a place of honor, the provision of care and support, the
instruction for the breathing in of the spirit and the encouragement to push
out into reality one’s new self, transformed by the union of God with the Self
and to nurture the new creation into the fullness of Christ, is the nature of
the pastor.
My theology serves as
an underpinning for my practice of ministry.
Doing theology is the natural intent of every human being for reaching
above and over one’s individual heart and mind to reach God. By using our collective and individual
brokenness as a stepping stool, to embrace God and listen.
Why and how is this
possible? God is our heavenly parent;
mother and father. Because of the
intimate, personal and accepting nature of the Godhead, we have a divine
brother, Jesus, who embodies the perfect nature of God in flesh so as to live
among us and receive us all – regardless of sex, gender, creed, race, age,
religion, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, to dine with him and become one
with him.
I believe the Bible is
an authentic account of God’s love for the world and for all creation – and not
just humanity. However, the authenticity
of Scripture is not to be manhandled or deformed into a dogmatic instrument of
oppression, marginalization or disenfranchisement, of any one group or of the
environment. The greatest example of
God’s truth and the most profound testimony of God’s revelation to the world is
its diversity.
Scripture is to serve
as the guide which affords us with the understanding of the inner self, the
Soul, which inhabits each one of us. As
a tool of discovery, it assists in our ability to employ the mind within to
access the divine imagination which the soul places at our discretion. As the soul is in tuned with and is part of
the Over Soul, to use Emerson’s term for God, the Bible helps us to plumb and
calibrate ourselves for the benefit of channeling the soul through us and
thereby become like Christ ourselves.
Christ is the Savior of
the world inasmuch as we are all to be saved by the unconditional, loving gift
of the Cross, despite our willingness or ability to accept its reality. That is the nature of love. It is not contingent on patterns of right
action or of correct rituals; it is an intrinsic outpouring of the Universal
Soul’s nature. In essence to commune
with Christ is to commune with our nature.
To commune with our nature is to live a life of virtue, love and beauty.
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