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I seek every opportunity to contribute from my office of stay-at-home-dad-citizen-voter from Edmonton, Canada to advance the cause of the organic community that can defeat the synthetic corporate sector's hold on decision-making. In short, because my personal life and my office are the same, it puts me in the position to address democracy itself and global social policy making. In gospel terms, I seek to buy up every opportunity to be in context for the Kingdom's influence to spread. Also, being from the Canadian province that supplies United Stated with up tp 60% of their domestic oil and gas demand, puts me in context to now campaign to bring the open source vision of transparency to the Conservative Party of Alberta's current leadership race. They have been in power for over 30 years and the exiting leader has been there for 14 years. If interested in the strategy I am using to bring the vision in play, please see the topic "Is this wild enough to be Green?" on the Alberta Green Party website at: https://www.albertagreens.ca/node/304
Prayers and comments are required. Thank you.
-------------------- ...all blessings be with us all... Benoit Couture
The will of the Lord be done as you address spiritual wickedness in high places, brother. Paul himself used the expression of an opening door for the gospel:
1 Corinthians 16:9 because a great DOOR for effective work has OPENED to me, and there are many who oppose me.
2 Corinthians 2:12 Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had OPENED a DOOR for me,
Colossians 4:3 And pray for us, too, that God may OPEN a DOOR for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
My brother, sometimes I am reminded of a period of history (mid to late 1800's) in the Netherlands in which a Christian Prime Minister, mind you, founded a Christian university and published two Christian newspapers, too. Abraham Kuyper wanted desperately to see Jesus acknowledged as Lord in every sphere. But look at where that nation is today with it's legalized drugs and prostitution and socialistic statism. Sighhhhh.
May Canada, the USA, and Europe immediatley open their doors to King Jesus and bow their knee before his crown, throne, sword, and scepter.
Another thing I am reminded of is the very last word of the Old Testament which was followed by 12 generations of silence. The word was "curse." God will not be mocked. His blessings are from one generation to the next but they are received on his tems only. That's best.
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Dear David, Thank you deeply. The scriptures you used are most fitting, espacially the opposition one. Our Lord is currently moving with great precision in my life. I must point out David that Cafe House Church is the only spiritually focused activity in my life, be it in cyber space or otherwise. You and the family here are a breath, a drink and a feeding of fresh eternal life to my whole person. I have been working "officially" in cyber space since Feb. 2002 at the expense of my wife's financial support of myself and our adult disabled child. It started when I sent a submission to the SUFA review. It stands for Social Union Framework Agreement. It was signed in Feb. 1999 by all governments except for one province, Quebec. Being ignored is only starting to subside as of the end of April 2005. Your encouragement though is a first fruits of the harvest, spiritually. You, as a brother in the Lord, are confirming what is happening since 4 o'clock this morning in another cyber community where I seek to draw attention on an initiative called ...cleansing our vision of the Crown.... This morning, I was being quoted between participants and they were inquiring as to how they could help to move the vision forward. That cyber community is one of Internet software experts who help one another with the knowledge economy's challenges. They are at the forefront of all governing powers and social policy development to avoid globalization's cahos as much as possible. You and I know the end of good intentions but that is not widely recognised; so that makes it an extremely delicate manouvering. I am writing this way because I seek wisdom from the Lord and counsel in the assembly. The language being used nowadays by the knowledge economy experts evolve around Open Source Knowledge Management, Clarity, Transparency, Communities of Practice, Life Long Education... Because we know as children of the Eternal that human knowledge is rooted in our deceitful nature which is driven to become like God instead of with Him, then we are the ones who are needed to follow the Lead Who guides the way through the deceit and evil prduction of our knowledge capacities that remains independant of the true Open Source. At the centre of community we find the meaning of communion and at the heart of communion we find common and union. Allow me now to give you some details that are relevant to the activity that is happening here in Alberta. The province turned 100 years old last year. There is a man who was christian and Premier of Alberta for 30 years, until the early 60's. His name was Earnest Manning. His son went on the federal scene as a well known christian as well and he generated a movement that reformed the conservative side of Canadian politics. Currently, there was a man who in the 80's was a young Albertan by the name of Stephen Harper, who occupied the position of chief policy maker for that reforming movement. As of Jan 2006, he is Prime Minister of Canada with a minority government. Mr. Manning is said to possibly jump in the current Alberta Conservative Party leadership race. Such is the layout of the scenario to which I pray the Lord to graft the following that I am pasting from what I described that happened earlier with the other cyber community when it was suggested that someone should come up with a project for my thoughts. I then replied with:
"May I humbly suggest a downtown Edmonton initiative which is just fresh out of the womb of micro-macro socio-economic creativity and which is prescribed for humanity with a live family's journey, to get from personal to communal and from local to global with the softness of a volume swell and the delicacy of care. You can read it at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A9247296 Also, in case you are interested to "Cyber space knocking on reality's door": http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A5786841 I look forward to see together..."
Here I can add: "The vision of the Church"
How could we engage this present thread here to weave itself into love in action and truth?
-------------------- ...all blessings be with us all... Benoit Couture
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Where are we now if the following essay is true? Have we all like sheep gone astray? Is it too late for "Christian" nations to reform? Nations are formed by groups of people. Are we just a bunch of greedy people forming greedy governments? This essay was forwarded to me. I admit that I received a jolt when it finally soaked in. .2006.04.21 Lifespan Of A Republic How Long Do We Have? About the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. From bondage to spiritual faith; 2. From spiritual faith to great courage; 3. From great courage to liberty; 4. From liberty to abundance; 5. From abundance to complacency; 6. From complacency to apathy; 7. From apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage."
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Since I began to try and figure out the meaning of words like government, constitution, democracy versus dictatorship, it points to the fact that there is no basis for reality and dicision-making outside of the Monarchy to host the Lordship of the Christ-Jesus. In this context of the Church, democracy can be used for the sake of seeking out the Lord in the many counsels, to confirm His will and to effectively communicate His movements in our midst. Democracy is a collective tool to either serve as the connection of the Head's decision-making of our Lord reaching all parts of the Body in the communion of the Spirit or else, it is the illusion of deceit that keeps self-rightouesnous and good intention leading the way.
Act 2, 42-45 "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need."
Once the Word was fed to the people by the apostles, the fellowship was the chewing process of that spiritual food which they had just received in order for the Word to be made flesh into those who were present. The prayers sealed the daily intake of each one denying her/himself, to pick up the power to activate the nutrition into following Jesus. The Word came to the people, the Word took root in the people's spirits and hearts and as they fellowshipped, their soul and bodies were being regenerated by the presence and identity of the Lord in their midst. The day that the Church sees that democracy is the fellowship of God's glory amongst us, His people, then we will know that we must return to drink and to eat with and from one another, of the spontanious move of the Spirit as we see in Acts, which God designed and launched Himself rigth at the start of who He means the Church to be and how the organic experience of spiritual unity actually gets cultivated to maturity.
Dear Lord, bring us to where we hear Your voice, so that we may be silenced by Your patient wisdom, fed in Your identity and guided by Your presence, that Your glory gets to shine forth in Your expression of our unity on earth as it is in heaven. Release Your overcomers to reach out to all Your people I pray, in Jesus the Christ's name...amen to Your Yes...
-------------------- ...all blessings be with us all... Benoit Couture
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