God damn, as a lifelong agnostic, I HATE that term.
Here's why:
https://saintjosephrcc.blogspot.com/2018/11/god-speaks-you-are-entering-winter-of.html
Not to mention the "Khristian Konservative" support for THIS crap:
https://saintjosephrcc.blogspot.com/2018/12/breaking-news-lower-assembly-of-french.html
You see, we are not a faith or religion and this was long before Orthodoxy recognized our right to exist within their pre-Roman traditions. Sometime just before or after World War I we were welcomed (without publicity) into Orthodoxy due to Romanist persecutions and excommunication of healers and miracle workers who were not priests.
Many of our female Apostles have been burned as witches or stoned to death. The last known killing was in 2004 in Kosovo. We ask for no trust and offer no "proof". Your opinions and faith do not matter to us. Jesus did not ask the blind man if he was Jewish.
We answer to no man or woman, no priest, bishop or pope. The Apostle has the authority of the path of Christ. Each Apostle has personal authority. We are companions of the man Jesus Christ, not worshippers.
Such a person was my Mother, fiercely independent in ACTION, but she claimed to worship - she was Roman Catholic and denied any other Church, but her roots go deep in the soil of Mary Magdalene and the other formally recognized Apostles - men like Peter, Paul and Mark (the women were not recognized but our history includes their Gospels).
We make mistakes.
An Apostle's home is dedicated to an Apostle's life and works - and are thus our temples, our universities, our living Bibles. Each sentence a Gospel, and each meal a "Mass" or "Service" or "Ceremony". We do not break bread in formal ceremony, but instead share water.
My personal communion and celebration at the table is not the bread or wine, but this; "I offer you water, may you never thirst." Our only shared belief is in eternal life. We do not believe in Sin, Evil, Death, "the Devil" or "God" - we believe in everything and every concept that leads to the truth and the Apostle's life. Words are sacred to us. We do not discuss certain things - and will not abide by certain laws.
Most of us are not law breakers - we simply do not do certain things that by law are required - like obtain a "license" to become married.
Every single moment of our walk of faith focusses on the life and experiences of adults setting good examples for others - especially children. Human life is not sacred to us - ALL life is sacred to us. We are not vegetarians - we kill and eat meat or not as we see fit.
Many Apostles are very wealthy, but we do not believe in the ownership of land or other real property. We are stewards - holding the land, the air - the water... for children not yet born. Albert Schweitzer and Gandhi were both (and are) apostles. It is not a choice - it is a physical change that occurs when a life of discipleship and ordinary kindness simply, changes. Miracles begin to occur. Simple - sometimes humorous, but undeniable as the sun or the rain. We can simply do them - although skepticism or fear can crush this gift for a moment. I can show you physical proof - but I do not seek to prove a damn thing.
My family home was dedicated to the work of Apostleship in 2001 by my own choice and the approval of my blessed Mother Bernice after the death of my father and her husband, Carl Hubertz. He was a respected Roman Catholic - but a man who did not speak of faith, but only of truth and obligation.
We do not preach.
In the modern world credentials, licenses and permission seem to matter, thus for example, I (John Hubertz) am a certified peer-advocate by the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI), have advanced degrees from Miami of Ohio and the Karl Jung Institute and am an ordained minister.
The only thing I brag about is that I'm a Kentucky Colonel. I earned that without having to go to someone's "classes" or give money for the piece of paper.
We do not seek license for marriage, healing, teaching, or priesthood. Our authority springs from deeper roots. We do not ask for funding, but seek material donations of goods and services for direct use in our path of life.
Thus although began officially as an independent member agency of the Park Center Network - and originally worked with and in the facility on Lake avenue that helped John Hubertz when he was first diagnosed, the nationally renowned Fort Wayne Clubhouse community, that is merely the kind of silly thing that an Apostle needs these days to exist without persecution.
I do not like to be called a charlatan or a fool, although many would mock me, none seem to ever actually accomplish that. We are protected from that type of harm.
What is an Apostle?
First, we must volunteer when asked. The only price? A Martyr's death. When we die - we will have doubt and fear, but it will save someone else. That is the only difference between an Apostle/Saviour and an ordinary person. At first.
We do miracles, since we are Apostles, in real life. That's the proof - we perform miracles.
To us it is amazing, but so strange yet so constant we get used to it. There are a few of us, very few, that have Ka-Ba-Lah (the remembering). This means that the old "Christian" ways are not going to plague mankind much longer.
You see, suddenly, some are being called without faith at all - a joyful fulfillment of prophecy that is in the Bible. These sick stupid centuries of greed and hate and fear are coming to an end. Paradise - 10,000 years of it, has arrived.
In every form of "Bible" especially the Catholic bible and the Christian versions of it, the existence at all times of living apostles is mentioned. The "churches" ignore this. We do not pass plates for money or build buildings, we do not preach or ordain. We are Apostles. No money in it - and thus; not popular at all.
It is the only real "job" of all mankind. Everyone is called to discipleship (to be a kindly and peace-loving person) - and certain people are simply, chosen.
Those who say yes (many of us do not choose to ever speak of faith - it is part of our tradition ) but can cite physical evidence that we can recognize. Many of us do not even know the name of our faith. We do not write "bibles" - each life is a Gospel.
We formally object to all forms of licensure for any walk of life that includes healing, faith or family tradition. Persecution and martyrdom however, is not as evil as simply not being allowed to work as Apostles when called. Thus, many of us now are Doctors, Lawyers and Priests - but we do not ever cite that as authority.
Apostleship is the walk of the Christ - and we are called like all men and women to walk against the grain of even the law - thousands of us have died for our beliefs and our traditions and oral history reach back to three of the original Apostles. We do not bother with these details with those who are not called to join us.
The Apostle's walk that this represents began during the 200 years before the formation of the Catholic "Church" - thus we do not have central organization.
So - now the issues of error and intense human thought overwhelming the common sense of reality are gone. For it is central authority - even at the level of the infinite, that creates chaos and the hell of war.
This is the age of aquarius - when we all go back to the river of life, to the old thoughts and old ways.
But no chaos, no Armageddon, we have survived it.
"The fields are ready, the fire-pots burning. Help has arrived."
"The workers are able and the garden needs pruning."
"Work well and quickly, fear not waste - for if it burns, it was already dead."
Namaste,
This time, Christ is not A man or A woman, but a path, the path of the savior's sandals - even in high heels.
John Hubertz
Fort Wayne Indiana, USA
