Church Theology Thought Stream

The Theology and Foundational principals of the Reform Catholic Church:

We are relatively new.  The Church was initially formed in 2014.  Currently our faith has two deacons (a word we teach is synonymous with 'Rabbi'), and two or three active members.

We make a dedicated and active effort to follow Christ's call to Apostleship.  We study and choose to follow the known works and words of Jesus Christ - but we study and interpret the Bible and Sacred Texts in private, and only speak of them from memory and in an oral tradition.

We believe the Gospel is only the living word of God if it is expressed orally in parable and as a sacred tradition.

We believe Jesus called all of his students to be Apostles, and actively invited all mankind to join him as a Savior.  He conferred upon all active Apostles the gift of miracle working - a gift which we all share as our heritage in faith.

We believe that fully realized Apostles a sprinkled through history and live among us.  The common label within Catholicism for these miraculous people is "Saints".

We accept Christ's mandate in the Nag Hammadi Gospels to not build churches, but instead to hold sacred every dwelling, no matter how humble or grand.  "Every table an altar, every meal a Sacrament, every word of truth, love and kindness a part of God's infinite purpose.

We believe in one God Almighty in honor of the Sacred Traditions of our families and culture.  We believe in God Almighty, in the Holy Spirit within all creation, and in the words, actions and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth - the prophesied Savior promised in Old Testament (Torah) ancient Judaic texts.

We believe Jesus was a practicing Rabbi, and thus study and embrace the theology of first century Judaism.  The Pirke Avot (Wisdom of the Jewish Sages) is our primary historic source for this knowledge.

We are Pantheistic - We believe that if God is infinite than every single thing in reality is part of the infinite revealed in countless parts.  The separateness of one from another is an illusion - through our own personal Holy Spirit we all contain the infinite within ourselves.

We believe that the word "God" and the word "Reality" are the same word.

We believe every table is an altar, every home is a church, and every gathering is sacred.  We express our faith through words and actions.

We are establishing an oral tradition - we do not use the written word to create and share God's gospels and our faith.

We incorporate the contemporary Bible into our historical foundations, but we believe the word of God is woven into our daily lives, and that living word is the law and the truth as espoused by Jesus.

We fully incorporate the Nag Hammadi Gospels and modern sources like Gandhi and Martin Luther King into what we preach - which is the 3rd testament, a testament that is both taught and spoken but not recorded in text form.  We are still undecided about whether our oral traditions should be recorded and saved - but for now we are purely a faith of oral Gospel, apostleship and action.

A First Century Church in the Twenty-First Century

Jesus Christ never desired a written history, he called on his followers to 'carry' his message, not to write everything down and make a book out of it.

If you recall, in one of Christ's Gospels he said out loud he was here to void the old laws.  The Reform Catholic Church interprets Christ's words literally and interprets this statement as an admonition against the use of written texts to carry the Gospel and history of God's words.
Instead the congregation and ministry of the Reform Church carries the word as an oral tradition - freely interpreting both the historical texts and modern sources as the revealed Word of God.

We then carry the word in Apostleship and Faith, as Christ commanded.  In speech and in action, we follow the path of Christ.