What
is the Living Word
Kim: You talk about
a Living Church based on the Living Word. It seems like such a church
has no fixed doctrine. If not, how can people know what is true? I
mean, traditionally people have used religious doctrines as a stable
foundation. How can people just leave that behind?
Jesus: I
am not suggesting that people leave it behind. As I have said many times,
the soul cannot exist in a vacuum; it needs a foundation for its exploration
of the world. There is nothing wrong with using a belief system or religious
doctrine as your foundation, as long as you realize that it should be
a springboard to a higher understanding and that it must never become
a prison that entraps your mind. This is what most religious people
have failed to understand.
The Living Church will have a body of teachings that give people a basic
understanding of the spiritual side of life. This might incorporate
elements from all of the world’s religions as well as newly revealed
teachings. The important point is that outer teachings are seen as a
foundation instead of being elevated to an infallible doctrine. A Living
Church must give people basic teachings and allow them to develop their
own, personal understanding without seeking to control them in any way.
The true goal of spirituality is to help people attain salvation, meaning
individual Christhood. You will not enter the wedding feast by belonging
to an outer religion. You will enter the feast only by wearing the wedding
garment of the Christ consciousness. To put on that garment, you must
increase the contact with your Christ self until your soul accepts itself
as being one with that Christ self, as being the bride of Christ, as
being the Christ in embodiment. When you attain that Christhood, you
attain the ultimate standard for discerning what is true (meaning what
is in harmony with God’s laws) and what is not true.
I have tried to explain that it is simply not possible to define an
outer doctrine which accurately describes the reality of God. You can
only know the reality of God through a direct inner experience. The
true purpose of the Living Church is to give people the best possible
opportunity to have such a direct experience. That experience does not
automatically come about as the result of hearing a minister read and
interpret an outer doctrine. The experience is much more likely to happen
as the result of hearing the Living Word.
When I sent my disciples out to preach my message, I told them, “Take
no thought for what ye shall say; it shall be given unto you.”
They did not go out with a fixed outer doctrine. They preached the Living
Word by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Living Word is not meant to be taken as an infallible or fixed doctrine.
It is given to people in a specific state of consciousness, and it is
given with the distinct purpose of helping these people rise to a higher
level of consciousness. When they do rise to that level, they can receive
an even higher understanding which might go far beyond the original
delivery of the word. You must never fall into the trap of thinking
that the Living Word is somehow unchangeable.
The Living Word is precisely that; it is living and ever flowing. If
you turn it into a fixed doctrine, it is no longer the Living Word,
and it can quickly calcify as a dogma filled with dead men’s bones.
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