The Teaching

We are citizens of both the earthly world and the spiritual world. Religion is the practice of an active relationship between the spiritual world and ourselves. The more we can know about the nature of the spiritual world and its beings, the more actively and appropriately we are able to interact with them. For this reason, study courses, talks, lectures and sermons, as well as personal reading and study, are seen as important supports for the religious life. Christ, the Creator of both the earthly and the spiritual worlds, became a human being in Jesus of Nazareth. Through his life on earth, his suffering, his death and resurrection, he suffused our earthly life with a renewed connection to the life of the spirit, and to the all-encompassing God, the source of life itself. Everyone who con­sciously seeks a connection with him will find him. In finding him, we find the bridge into a new life of the spirit, both during and after life on earth. Acceptance and understanding of the teach­ing in The Christian Community is not a dogmatic re­quirement, but each individual is encouraged and supported in his or her search for an understanding of the mysteries of Christianity. Literature Renewing Christianity, James Hindes, Floris Books The Christian Creed, H. W. Schroeder, Floris Books Meditation, F. Rittelmeyer, Floris Books The Essence of Christianity, R. Frieling, Floris Books The Cosmic Christ, H. W. Schroeder, Floris Books The Fields of Auvers, 1890 - Vincent Van Gogh