The Church that Jesus Christ created was organic in nature, now comprised of potentially millions and millions of individuals all chasing the heart of God. These people belong to a special community led by the Holy Spirit to engage the will and purpose of God Himself. This special relationship between believers is expressed, not joined. It is organic, not institutional. It is prophetic, not academic.
For some, the difficulty in understanding this lies in the misconception that the Church is a structure. Its primary metaphoric standard moves the vivid picture Jesus paints of a human body to a building made sacred by proclamations and claims to apostolic succession.
Still, what is the difference between a framework and a structure? The best way to explain this is to use a simple illustration using modern technology. In this illustration, the universe is a large computer. The laws and principles governing the universe, light, matter, and energy can be considered the "operating system", like Windows or MAC. Science is the exploration, discovery, and attempts to explore and explain this system - reality itself. The Bible and its precepts, as a subset of this system, details through its various methods and properties a framework to operating within this system to work with God to achieve a desired result. In effect, the Bible is a document that reveals processes and procedures as well as intentions and revelations necessary to co-accomplish the very will of God.
Structures, by their nature, attempt to operate within their own confines, essentially creating their own frameworks, which many times either duplicate or violate the framework that already exists. The Bible is the one framework that accounts for all aspects of the way the "system" works, anticipating its effects and defining a clear way to maximize its nature.
From faith to communication with God, the Bible clearly provides us with a way to achieve God's desired results of unity and like-mindedness with Him.
Today's Structures
For almost 2,000 years, the Church of Jesus has been made into a man-made structure, supposedly a subset application built with the Word's framework. Yet, this structure violates the very nature of the framework, claiming its authoritative and absolute usage of the framework. It other words, the institutional church claims to embody the complete fulfillment of this framework without hesitating for one moment at its paradox nature and its trivial pursuit for numbers and financial gain.
The persistence of its views is fueled only by careful indoctrination and superstitious threats. These views are then tempered with true Christian virtues which never quite manifest fully in the very people that lead it. Ultimately, the line becomes blurred between what is Biblical and what is Extra-Biblical. You can no longer tell what is "flesh" and what is "Spirit".
The results create unexplained hierarchies, unauthenticated teachings, and a large financial drain on the true economy of the true Church. In the most extreme cases, people profit greatly from the ignorance of congregational members. In most cases, the institution will only, at best, serve to accomplish the purpose of the individuals leading. All others are sacrificed for the sake of one's "divine" agenda.
The Framework for the Church
This website was created to outline the framework for the Church that the Bible specifically provides us with. Our goal is to expose the nature, execution, and beauty of a Church that this contemporary world has never quite seen, but hopes and prays for every day. God has truly provided His mind, represented by the Bible itself in its purest form. But, we have to dig through what we think we know in order to find it.
