On The Necessity of Going Back Underground
A return to the root
“The underground church does not owe its existence to persecution at all. Persecution only reveals the underground church; it cannot create it.”
Jesus got crucified twice. On the calvary, and in the Western world, sometimes around the 1492 (or, rather j492, for those in the know).
Jesus never wrote a letter. He never penned down his thoughts. He was infinite. Eternal. He could not bring himself to a finite state. How could the finite ever be large enough for the infinite? He knew that reducing his thoughts to word by giving us letters would mean that mankind would starting worship the letters instead of Himself.
He came to preach a message of reunification. A message of salvation through the reunification from the mundane and profane to the divine and eternal.
The church was the enemy of the State before it got assimilated by it.
It was an enemy, for it promotes independence, freedom and unity with the divine. It promotes the eternal and infinite. There was an everlasting, all powerful King of King. This, of course, had to be fought.
But the best way of winning a war isn’t to go against it. It would be too obvious. Instead, it’s to go with it. It’s to embrace it, and deform the truth. That’s why the State took Christianity as a state religion. They had to join it, to twist and pervert it.
There are pastors in Canada that got persecuted because they refused to obey to the orders of man. I’m thinking about Pastor Arthur Pawlowski. Or Pastor Timothy Stephens. The Canadian legal system is broken to the core. There is a need for christian to change their strategy. I wrote lengthy about it in my white paper on the Underground Church of Canada. This, however, isn’t a cause to go underground. The gates of hell couldn’t prevail upon the Kingdom of God.
The church needs to go underground to be able to do church things, to find its purpose again, to elevate the Lord Jesus-Christ and stay true to the nature of its origin.
The underground church already died to itself. It can therefore bear fruits, like a seed that dies and start sprouting. This is in contrast of the modern Western Church, who resists the dying process.
This is not a time to protest or go to court. This is a time to abandon the whole paradigm, one that carries a certain finality of things, and embrace a new one, an infinite one, the Great Work, the one paradigm that transcend every world with the Word.
This is not a time to build a structure with gates. The gates were the very impediment to grace and redemption in the first place, as many became to worship them.
This is a time to tear down the structure of the old way of doing things. The church is transiting through a new form. It’s doing its own metanoia.
If Christians truly believe that this is the end of time, it would belong to them to go do the Great Work, and impose on this world the greatest revival ever seen, as opposed to a Great Reset.
I recommend reading this article from Pastor Foley about the Underground Church.
To quote Pastor Foley, one more thing, if my reader forgives me, “
“The only legitimate reason to take the church underground, then, is to overcome any hindrance to the word of God being purely preached and heard, and the sacraments purely administered.”
When the government determines who may preach, what may be preached, or where preaching may take place, the church is obligated to operate underground rather than accomodate the restriction
When the government or the general public restrain the red hearing of the gospel, the church is obligated to go underground rather than accommodate the restrictions.
When the pure administration of the sacaraments is impaired, the church is obligated to go underground rather than accommodate the restrictions.”
With the invasion of QR code, church capacity limited by government official, and laws against the singing –worshipping– in many provinces, the church is obligated to go underground.
Out.
JP