What is New Hope.

The Theology and Foundational Principles of New Hope:

By reading this you are joining thousands of people worldwide who choose to worship God using the New Hope Principles in their life.  Lutheran or Jew, Arab or African, independent of language or faith, we walk the New Hope path.


"All are called to serve."


Our path is simple.  It is to worship God through Apostleship and personal experience rather than preaching from written texts and bowing to formally established church authorities.


Since our family traditions and our culture are based on the Judeo-Christian tradition, we rely on these patterns to guide our path - but we do not hold them as superior to other faiths, other cultures and other traditions.

We of New Hope make a dedicated and active effort to follow early Jewish theology and Jesus Christ's call to Apostleship.  We study and choose to follow the known works and words of 1st century Jewish theologians and the life of the Rabbi/Savior Jesus Christ - but we study and interpret the Bible and Sacred Texts in private or in small groups, and always invite individual interpretation and even criticism of both ancient and modern religious texts,

We believe that if you want to hear the direct voice of God, you must listen and pay attention today.  The living word of God surrounds us - as we and everything in this moment are part of the infinite glory of God's reality.

During open fellowship we do not read to each other from the Bible or other books of faith, but only speak of them from memory and in an oral tradition.

We believe the Gospel is the real and living word of God whenever it is expressed orally from memory, through parables or 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 are sprinkled through history and live among us.  The common label we use for these miraculous people is "Saints".

We believe in the confession of sin as a sacramental act, but do not place rules or boundaries on how to practice this essential act of faith.  We believe that for God to reach into our hearts and lives we must express our deepest thoughts, our fears, and even our sins out loud to another person.

Speaking the truth and seeking the truth are both Sacred and Sacramental.  We strive to be honest but compassionate as we speak and act.

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 respect all names for God, whether you call him Jehovah or Gaia, Allah or Rishnu, God is infinite - and everything that exists, from the blade of grass to the Human Spirit within you, are quite literally part of that infinity.

Because our own family and cultural traditions have put us here in Indiana at this point in human history, we often turn to the Savior known as Jesus of Nazareth - we accept his living example as evidence of his status as our prophesied Savior promised in Old Testament (Torah) ancient Judaic texts.

The countless faces of God (Hindu)

We believe that other places and other human cultures have their own human saviors who are sprinkled throughout human history.  They may call their Savior Muhammad, Buddha, Krishna or the millions of other labels mankind has used to try to name the unnameable glory that is all Creation.

We do not disrespect any Holy Book, and we study and learn from as many as we can.  God's truth is woven throughout all human faiths for those who choose to seek it.

We believe that the infinite life "hereafter" that is called "heaven" is a manner of living and speaking.  All moments are infinite - and a person can and will experience both Heaven and Hell during the infinite span of their lifetime.

The Buddha at one with the universe

"One moment of attention in this world, willingly taking your place in the moment and aware of the infinite glory of God, is an eternity in the world to come."

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

Life is infinite.  Death is an illusion.

We are Pantheistic - God is everything.

We believe that God is infinite. One and all - and everything, is part of God's infinite whole.

Our own Holy Spirit or "soul" means we all contain an element of God - the infinite within ourselves.


We do not appoint Priests or other authority figures.  Each person is invited to learn, to think, and serve the God of their understanding as their own life and spirit chooses.

We acknowledge all faiths, especially the Christian and Judaic traditions that embody the faith of our Fathers and our culture at this place and time.

We acknowledge all religious professionals as fellow Apostles and teachers of faith.

We are nonviolent and will not participate in any war.  We are healers and will comfort the living and honor the blessed dead.  We seek to stand against cruelty and injustice by example and through action.

Jesus heals the sick

We do not appoint Priests.

Our community leaders are fully realized Apostles that we identify as Apostolic Ministers, and we call them "Deacon" - a word which we translate as "Rabbi" or "Teacher".  Both male and female members of our congregations are welcome as Apostles, Deacons and Apostolic Ministers.

We believe every table is an altar, every home is a sacred Temple, 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 New Gospels and our faith.

We do not preach to convert or set one person above others as superior in knowledge of God and the truth.  We teach and learn individually and in small groups - and we together and individually seek the same essential knowledge of what God is, what life means, and where we might find guidance, hope, and our sacred purpose for existence.

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

We do study the traditional Christian Bible, Talmud and Torah, but we very deliberately seek to study and understand the original unedited early gospels of faith discovered in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea in 1946/47.  These gospels are commonly known as the "Nag Hammadi" or Dead Sea Scrolls.

The New Hope church fully embraces these original gospels.

We also hold sacred numerous modern sources such as the writings and living examples of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

It is our firm belief that all people have the opportunity and the ability to walk the Savior's path - to speak the truth, and change the world.

We believe the word of God is woven into our daily lives, and that to fully experience God a person should seek to be in the moment - aware, sensitive and compassionate.  This awareness to us is the definition of living by the law and the truth espoused in our shared Judeo/Christian heritage and taught by Jesus Christ.

In the church of New Hope we do our best to incorporate these learnings into our lives - lives that form what we believe is the 3rd testament of the Holy Bible, a new Torah, our own Living Testimony to the power and the glory that shines forth in evidence and fulfillment of Christ's promises to his Apostles as he granted them authority over life and death.

We are still undecided about whether our oral traditions and gospels should be recorded and saved - but for now we are purely a faith of oral expression of our studies, our experiences of incorporating these truths into our daily lives, and our lifelong commitments of Apostleship, service and following the Savior's path.

We bid all of you welcome, and invite you to join us and help us as we humbly seek the truth.  

We do not ask for your money, but would love for you to participate in this new method of living as Apostles in the modern world.

We seek to know you, to learn from you and we invite you to walk with us and participate in our shared journey of birth, life and death.

Continue Reading - "God Speaks", a Message of Hope to the Wrold.

Continue Reading - "Welcome to the New Hope Church"

Brief History and Update - January 1, 2018:

In the last 170 days since we published the "God Speaks" message and chose to move forward with the vision of founding a new religion, our membership has grown from 32 people to over 12,000 people in 21 countries.

We have seven people completing our seminary program.  Two are local, one is 17,000 miles away in Thailand.  Four are men, three are women.  

Our seminary offers both distance and in-person programs at our Fort Wayne Home and School.  Costs are minimal, essentially teaching expenses + books and materials.  

Full scholarships stand readily available to reduce or eliminate seminary costs.

Ordination can be granted in the context of a variety of "religions" and fields of research or study.  We also offer an extended program of education (both basic, and advanced) in World History and Comparative Theology.  

All classes and programs are open to people regardless of faith or atheism.



History:

We are relatively new.  Our walk of faith began in a very tiny way about 20 years ago by the living example of my Blessed Mother (now deceased).

The Blessed Bernice Catherine Hubertz, b 1917 - d 2009

"For she walked in miracles all the days of her life."

 The Church Theology began to be codified and formed in 2009.  Currently our Fort Wayne church has three Deacons (a word we teach is synonymous with 'Rabbi'), and a handful of active members.

Our foundational elders are John Hubertz of Fort Wayne, Michael Benedict of Fort Wayne, Rabbi Avram Freidman of Mobile, Alabama and Mister Carl Zehr, now deceased, who was an Old-Order Mennonite scholar and one of John's first spiritual teachers.



Yours in Christ at Fort Wayne, Indiana

John Hubertz

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News from Tomorrow, Today - World Gathers in France to Implement Sanctions against the United States

Dateline: Paris; June 25, 2018 - Both the illustrious LeMonde international daily newspaper and the left-wing bulwark news outlet "Libertare" are reporting that an extraordinary session of the Lower Assembly of France's Parliament are meeting in emergency session to discuss the potential necessity of direct military action against the United States and its assets worldwide.

Targeting American bullying through worldwide military and economic dominance, the French are seeking to lead an international coalition to wrest control of the world's oceans, resources, policies and financial systems from what they dub is "A Super-Power rushing the world headlong into conflict, starvation and war."

(America is) "A Super-Power rushing the world heading into conflict, starvation and war." 

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This newly initiated and unprecedented multi-nation action is being led by France's newly Progressive Macron government, two of France's top international French-language news outlets are posting stories confirming that the Lower Assembly of the French Parliament and the government headed by French President Emmanuel Macron are locked in a marathon pre-holiday sessions regarding wide-ranging international restrictions and trade/economic sanctions against the US.

In a startling related development, it appears these meetings include top-level representatives of the full European Union as well as top governmental and military leaders from across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

A large Chinese delegation of both military and government leaders have just arrived at Charles DeGaulle airport via high-speed Chinese military transport aircraft and a motorcade is moving swiftly to the meeting site.  Russia, while not officially an ally of the United States and the Trump Administration, appears to not be participating in this emergency meeting.

Citing a series of late-night tweets from @realDonaldTrump and @MikePence cabinet ministers, senior military officials and French Premiere Macron are hosting the primary meeting at a secret, heavily guarded military bunker complex located just outside the French capital.

 

Their stated goal? To reassert global sovereignty of all nations and regain control of international naval trade and financial markets worldwide.

The population of France appears to be solidly united behind this initiative.

Cheering crowds line the streets of French industrial and military communities, and in an interview with groups of  hundreds of  "yellow vest" onlookers holding a silent candlelight vigil at the entrance to French Charge de Militaire offices in Lille shows broad support for what is happening.  "This is long overdue" (seems to be the abiding sentiment).  

The Yellow Vests through their loose-knit organizational leadership are indicating that the Gilets Jaune movement is busy at this hour tearing down barricades and removing roadblocks to aid troop movements now happening throughout France.

They are resolute about the potential for conflict with the US:  

(This quote is from reports filed by internationally renowned French-language newspaper LeMonde as part of a late-night update to their international and internal online live-stream news)

"It is about time these American bullies and beasts who rule the world on behalf of the wealthy receive the same treatment they have been subjecting the world to for nearly two generations."  

The leftist French populist newspaper Libertare is leading a special morning edition with this shocking headline: 

"Liberté, égalité, fraternité - le monde en a assez de la domination américaine"

(Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - the World has had enough of US rule)

"All of France, indeed ordinary people of all civilized nations have had enough of American war-profiteering and unfettered violence for profit." Claims an editorial attributed to and countersigned by the entire editorial leadership of nine major French news outlets.  In an unprecedented joint editorial statement penned in part by elder statesman and conflict policy analyst Noam Chomsky, the editorial continues 

"The world is beyond weary of burying the bodies of combatants and innocent civilians in conflicts best described as war on behalf of monied interests and United States determination to force regime change to secure Colonialist control of rich and poor nations around the world."  

The editorial bears the signatures of 65 editors and media opinion leaders from Europe and around the world.  Excerpts:

"There is no hope whatsoever for meaningful action to combat climate change, nor can we as citizens of sovereign nations regain control of our own policies and economic activity while we remain under the thumb of American manipulation and the shadow of American foreign policy on behalf of the rich."

"May God have mercy on us if we fail in this effort - as without suppression of American military might the planet is doomed."

Citing examples as diverse as humanitarian policies being crushed to prevent action to save the lives of those involved in  mass migration and recent revelations that uncovered worldwide American mass surveillance of both national leaders and private citizens who oppose war and American hegemony, one French minister responded to cheering crowds as he was hustled through barricades to the closed-door meeting "It is about time we the people of all free nations stood up for ourselves against the Imperialist forces of America." 

"America has no allies, America is not our friend - they are our Overlords."

While reports conflict regarding the unprecedented and unannounced closed-door meeting, sources close to Macron disclose that world powers are finalizing details of immediate deployment of a NATO-like coalition which will include "all available" French troops as well as a French-led International Naval Flotilla assembling overnight in the English Channel and off the coast of Portugal and Ireland.

"This is about sovereignty."  

Worldwide action against US intervention and US trade and economic interests now seem inevitable as wide swaths of both European, Middle East and Southeast Asian "allies" of the US regime are at this time escorting and ejecting lobbyist groups and representatives of multinational corporate entitities groups from their capitals.  

There are also efforts to isolate American embassies and personnel and as well as diplomatic and military representatives of puppet regimes around the world who are perceived to be American proxies on the world stage.

"We cannot effectively respond or react to the demands of the Yellow Vests without triggering a flurry of international manipulation and response from US embassies and the various agencies of the United States who manipulate our affairs on behalf of the super-rich."

"The United States has been implementing massive interventions worldwide to crush human rights and environmental action to bully us into submission and prevent the protection of migrants and the world's poorer and weaker nations."

"Nous disons ASSEZ c'est assez"  

(enough is enough)

Even the Swiss defense forces are involved, making unprecedented moves to join the multinational force in an obvious breach of their 90 year policy of pure neutrality.  The Swiss have dispatched a garrison of support troops and a full armored division, and they are already streaming down the Autobahn in Germany and being loaded with great urgency onto Deutsche Marine military transport vessels at the bustling military harbor located near Neustadt/Holstein.  

Indeed, at bases throughout Europe and West Africa, battle hardened troop and equipment transport ships flying the flags of up to 11 nations are loading combat-ready troops.  Also unprecedented is their obvious urgency as the world's oceans are currently being crisscrossed by military vessels steaming at record speeds.  A massive international armada is being assembled off the German, Belgian, French and Portugese coastlines.

One senior Spanish naval official stated in response to concerns about looming war:  "I cannot predict the actions of our leaders, but I assure you this is the largest single military deployment since World War II."

"The ironic truth is most of (the participating nations) purchased this equipment from United States military manufacturers using funds borrowed from the United States government under the guise of so-called foreign aid."

Italian sailors who were seen running through the streets of Venice and Napoli toward numerous landing craft roaring in and out of Naval docks overnight were overheard to say:  

"I must call my family - This is not a drill."  

Meanwhile on the West coast of France both French and Belgian troops are erecting hardened staging areas on land still scarred from WWII D-Day landings.  

One area that has been isolated by miles of concertina wire ironically is "Omaha beach" and hovercraft troop and supply carriers can be heard as much as 100KM inland while they shuttle material, men and equipment to the growing international armada of ships offshore.

Apparently virtually all French and most European assets from the Mediterranean basin to the North Sea are steaming toward the channel at breakneck speed.  There is no evidence at this time that the government of the UK is participating in this deployment.

According to Janes Military Weekly live blog, "At no time in modern naval history have we seen such stunning demonstrations of speed from the world's navies."  Carl Pelutnar of Jane's continues, "Under any sort of normal conditions nations go to extraordinary lengths to hide sea trials and tests of top speeds for their ships of the line and support vessels."

"Speed records that seemed well established are being shattered as clearly the home-grown military capability of non-USA combatants have been developed in secrecy for decades, and they are demonstrating capabilities that exceed those of the US forces.  These capabilities have not been previously demonstrated or witnessed by international observers."

"Many of these warships would appear to have been developed specifically to meet or exceed the performance of the latest US hardware."

"In our opinion this is a game-changer... (reflecting as it does a direct assault on US rule of the seas) the nations of the world appear poised to confront and blockade American ports and American military assets in Europe and especially on the East coast of the United States."

This sobering reality is not unexpected, since for decades the United States markets have long been a world leader in "Blood Money" (investment in war manufacture and conflict focused equities).  "Perhaps most disturbing is that this deployment and anti-US sentiment on behalf of both Government and billions on behalf of NGO capital management groups have triggered massive investment overnight by algorithm driven US funds that operate independently of human control.


Near frenzy is sweeping both the Shanghai trading floor which began at 1:00AM GST and overnight futures markets (especially in oil and war material production ) worldwide appear to be heavily investing in companies which will benefit from an expensive and prolonged worldwide military contract.  One looming truth is that corporations associated with the production of Nuclear devices have surged nearly 17% in value in the last 12 hours.

"It surprises us that USA stock and mutual fund investment seems to be betting so heavily against their home country in any upcoming military or combination of both military and sanction activity aimed against squarely against the USA and US-led interests around the world."

"Even American-owned trading players who dominate world markets with "The Cheat" (Aritificial Intelligence controlled real-time trading, which profits in milliseconds and is responsible for some 67% of all commodities and equity trades worldwide."  The head of Germany's Bundesbank cartel of European economic partners and economies has stated in a Reuters interview before dawn this morning.  "These AI driven American resources and all multinational centres of wealth and power controlled by worldwide family dynasties are perceived as betting heavily against the United States of America in the looming and perhaps unavaoidable conflict." 

STATUS and UPDATE - LIVE

In a marathon session that began at approximately 11:20PM Paris time, extraordinary action up to and including entering direct conflict against the United States of America.  This action appears to be in solidarity with numerous UN and NATO member nations formally allied with US interests, and is occurring without notifying the UN security council.

Although at this time conflict has not been engaged, near-global war against United States military forces seems likely within the next 72 hours.

As of 4:20 AM local time, Paris' streets are alive with troop movements and obvious activity involving senior officials of the Charge de Militare and French Cabinet ministries, with a constant stream of junior staff and policy analysts being ushered under heavy military guard into the underground bunker that has not had official use since the end of France's involvement in the early Vietnam conflict.

France, and indeed five separate European Socialist democracies are  abuzz with rumors of looming economic sanctions against the USA.  Early trading at both the Shanghai exchange and on broader Asian markets show strong movement away from US-dependent corporate assets and a flood of capital toward military/industrial corporations perceived to be fully independent from American dominance and control.

A confidential source within the command structure being formed responded thusly when asked if this conflict and embargo has an official name.  He responded instantly:  

"We are not children, nor like the Americans do we mock the horrific necessity of armed or economic conflict with a "brand name" like the liars who sold us "Desert Storm".  

Wars do not have names, wars have casualties - those are the names that matter.  

So, for now we will just repeat the worldwide theme....   

"Nous disons ASSEZ c'est assez"  

(enough is enough)

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.