White Paper – Underground Church of Canada
Dencentralized Church
The Ethereum of churches
“Living according to God’s truth means that my ego must die, and I must live entirely for God and for my neighbors. Living according to God’s truth means not following the crowd and not being dismayed when even your friends misunderstand you. For the God whom you serve will have the final word. On the day of judgement he will speak the final word over the whole of your life.”
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
“For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.”
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
The Underground Church of Canada White Paper
The Next Generation Decentralized Autonomous Church
By J.P.R
History
There comes a time in history where destiny is compromised by the inaction of Men. There comes a time in history where the righteous men must step up to the helm and steer civilization away from destruction.
Such a man is rare. But such men are all-powerful. For he who masters the Logos master the God-like-power of world’s creation. The nobility of character layered on the invincibility of the soul renders such man equivocally undefeatable, ungovernable, and untrammeled by the chaos of the world. He is not simply a church builder. He is a world-builder. A creator of a more beautiful world that the elders from the past had foreseen as an incongruous remote possibility. An architect of a better world. Such a world is on the verge of happening, as we go down a dark path. Lightworkers have the ability to conjure hope with love to give back to humanity a beacon of hope through the darkness of our time.
There is a need for an overhaul of the Church system. A beacon of hope is needed.
When the first Apostles set the first Gentile Church into motion two millennia ago, they were simultaneously introducing two radical and untested concepts. The first is the concept of a "church", a centralized peer-to-peer community that maintains values backed by the Word of God and shared material possessions throughout the community for the benefit of all.
Today, the Christian “church” as an establishment has taken up the bulk of the public attention, both in terms of the political aspects, and religious aspects with the use of central buildings, hierarchical structures, and convoluted government red-tape.
However, there was also another, equally important, part to the Church's grand first mission: the concept of having a central place to gather. The Church as an establishment can be described as a centralized system: It can be destroyed, rendered inaccessible, or simply closed. There is no intrinsic way of determining when and where it will be rendered illegal to go to a church in Canada, and for decades this stymied the development of decentralized Christianity, as seen in South Korea and China.
The attention is rapidly starting to shift toward the going back-to-the-root part of the Church as the body of Christ, and how a decentralized church concept can build resilient, redundant, and ungovernable communities of followers.
The idea of a decentralized church came to me after serving in the underground church of Vietnam. The divine colliding with the mundane, the sacred touching the profane and leaving it forever changed.
On a personal note, I saw the same kind of miracles that I was reading and hearing in Bible School by some overseas missionary coming for a visit. They all had these crazy stories. A spark in their eyes telling something that they’ve seen something that we hadn’t. They had seen the something that mind cannot comprehend.
The Church in North America felt absolutely and utterly dead in comparison. The Christ got kicked out of the Church, here. Jesus got crucified twice. On the cross, and by the modern-day Western Church. They carry the story of Separation at the core of their institution, which is the very first blasphemy of Lucifer himself. To think that one can exist outside of God. That one isn’t the Christ himself.
I had to get out of it, and rekindle my faith, rediscover the power of the Word and master the sword of the logos to create the most beautiful world that my heart knows is possible. This is why this blog was named The Most Beautiful World.
I wrote quite a bit about my faith and my view in Dancing After The Music Stops. Pick up a copy if you feel like it. I didn’t write it. I lived it. And so, I had to start a church, a movement –for if not me, then who?– and it had to be redundant, decentralized, without a clear structure.
The New Church needs to be like water. Everywhere, and able to infiltrate every crack of the system.
It needs to be untraceable. It does need to bypass any form of governmental legislation. It needs to simply not exist. We achieve that by existing everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
That’s why I started the Underground Church of Canada two years ago. It’s been covertly hovering the offings of the shoreline of this communist takeover, for it needed to mature itself before it could be made above ground, and displayed in all its finesse.
Decentralized Autonomous Church
The Underground Church of Canada is invincible, unconquerable, and ungovernable. It’s the Ethereum of the churches. Every member represents the totality of the Creation, every member is a pastor, a priest, a servant, and a leader. The entirety of the church can be rekindled, refounded from a single individual. The entirety of the divine nature of the Creator can be found in a single node (“human being”).
It is invincible: You cannot kill the Underground Church of Canada. It stands tall on the authority of the Word.
It is unconquerable: There is no structure. There is nothing to conquer. There is no physical church to close down. There is no pastor to throw in jail. It is intangible. It exists in the mind and in the soul.
It’s ungovernable. It is not an organization. It is not a corporation. It’s individual to individual, peer-to-peer.
The Underground Church of Canada is a decentralized peer-to-peer church that maintains a God-given value without any governmental or organizational backing, without any intrinsic structure or central authority. It is self-replicable.
The Underground Church of Canada does this by building what is essentially the ultimate abstract foundational layer: it is a church standing on the authorities of the Bible, allowing anyone to found an Underground Church of Canada group, bible study, and decentralized core group where they can create their own bible study and engage in various religious activities.
In the Underground Church of Canada, the church is made up of local core groups composed of “followers”. Each follower has a soul and free will. Each follower can therefore build back a core group, and refound the movement.
An important consequence of the Underground Church of Canada mechanism is the "first-class pastor” property of the Church - the idea that followers have equivalent power to divine authority, including the ability to pray and create their own church. This allows followers to simultaneously serve many different core groups: for example, one might be a member of a decentralized Underground Church of Canada core group, be a pastor of another core and initiate bible study out of his own accord.
In the Old Testament, priests were called to be representing God to the people and minister to the people by serving them. They could talk to God, worship God, and have a fellowship with God. This changed in the New Testament, "You come to him as living stones, a spiritual house that is being built into a holy priesthood.” (1 Peter 2:5.)
In the Old Testament, a veil was separating the Holy of Holies in the temple from the rest of the people. Only priests could enter –one a year– this place. This veil got ripped –top to bottom, Heaven reaching the Earth, God coming down to us– when Jesus died on the cross. Every Christ-follower has this direct communion with God. No more veil. Everyone made a priest.
The strength of the Underground Church of Canada is that the decentralized core group and the follower do not need to care about the hierarchical nature of the core group. They are inherently pastors (priests), leaders, founders, and membesr at the same time.
Core Beliefs
Every member is a follower. Every believer in the Lord Jesus-Christ and followers of his teachings can be a member. There is no admission, no fee, interview, no imposed form – one can simply download the voluntary adhesion letter.
The Underground Church of Canada sees the blood –the source and vehicle of life– as the most sacred gift from God. The purity of it is paramount. One must remain vigilant about what he introduces in his body and his mind.
The Underground Church of Canada believes that spiritual death is worst than physical one. Spiritual death results in the eternal suffering of our souls, as is declared in Revelation
The Underground Church of Canada believes that there are greater forces governing the world and the war to fight is not against beings made out of flesh, but against spiritual entities (Ephesians 6:12).
The Underground Church of Canada believes that there will come a time where no man will be able to buy, sell or work without the Mark of the Beast (Rev. 13:16). We are at such dawn of time. The Mark of the Beast will be coerced on the mass and will be the enabler of great suffering. Anything that resembles such a mark should be avoided at all costs.
The Underground Church of Canada believes that the Scripture has the ultimate authority. It believes that the original text was from God to humanity.
The Underground Church of Canada believes that every born again follower is reunified and reconciled (2 Cor. 5:18) with God, and that every follower is appointed and elected by God to become a saint (Romans 1:7), a holy priest (1 Cor. 1:30, 1 Peter 14-15), an all-powerful being redeemed from the Eternal Damnation to be a light to this world.
The current intent of the Underground Church of Canada is to change people’s lives with the power of the reunification with Christ, and preserve the Word of God for the next generation. Such a goal will certainly not be made underground or covertly, but rather in broad daylight.
The Underground Church of Canada. It’s the Great Work made decentralized.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
A final quote, this one from Nelson Mandala: "Since my release, I have become more convinced than ever that the real makers of history are the ordinary men and women of our country; their participation in every decision about the future is the only guarantee of true democracy and freedom."
Out.
J.P.R.
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