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Centennial

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was a god. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being had its life in him, and the life was the light of human beings. And the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not taken hold of it.

A man came into being, sent from God; his name: John. He came as a witness, to bear witness concerning the light, so that all people might find faith through him. He was not the light, but was there to bear witness concerning the light.

The true light, which lightens every human being, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him. He came to his own place, and his own people did not accept him. But to those who received him, he gave the power to become children of God: to those believing in his name, who were born not out of blood, nor out of the will of flesh, nor out of the will of a man, but out of God.

And the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we beheld the revelation of his glory: a revelation as of the one born from the father, full of grace and truth. John bore witness concerning him and cried out, saying: “This was the one of whom I said: ‘The one coming after me has taken his place before me, for he was before me.’ ” For from his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came into being through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen a god; the one born god, being in the inmost being of the father: he has made him known.

John 1

One hundred years ago today, the Act of Congregation of Man first appeared on earth in the form in which we know it today. It was brought out of the spiritual world to 45 men and women who had resolved to bring it out into the world to the best of their abilities. During those days a hundred years ago, every Act of Consecration was also an ordination. And from those people who were ordained and from their deeds, there has grown the movement to which we may all look for the renewal of our link to the spirit, for the healing of our ways on earth, for the healing of the earth.

For those who have taken up the calling of the priesthood, that first service still resounds, echoed every time the service is celebrated anywhere in the world, now in over twenty different languages. There are also closer links. Every time a priest celebrates the service, we may hear the echo of the first time that priest celebrated. And this is not limited to priests. Each of us can recall the first time we experienced the service. So, all of us are ultimately linked back to that one Act of Consecration of Man which took place a hundred years ago today.

We may stand at rest with that connection, for it is there now forever. But then we may ask: where will this great deed of a hundred years go into the future? The past is given; the future is filled with questions, questions which will find their answers according to our deeds.

Our creed begins in eternity. It continues through the great event of the past, into the present and the future, to end with the repeated word “may”, the realm of human freedom. In this realm of freedom lies the answer to the questions that may arise about the future arising from that great deed one hundred years ago.

September 16, 2022, Rev. Michael Brewer

Picture: The First Goetheanum. The first Act of Consecration of Man, was celebrated on the top story of the wing seen on the right.

 

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On this path carry no purse, nor bag, nor sandals (Lk.10:1-20)

On this path carry no purse, nor bag, nor sandals (Lk.10:1-20)

As we approach a milestone in the life of The Christian Community, the 100th anniversary, the most important question may well be: how will it continue into the future?  How can we guard the treasure that is entrusted to us?  The way it usually goes in the development of a new movement, it also went in our Christian Community: due to human imperfection this movement is no longer as undamaged and untouched as it was in the beginning.  For some people that is a reason to be disappointed and turn away to look for something else, something better. However, when in spite of all disappointments, you have experienced what takes place in the Act of Consecration of Man—Who it is who speaks and acts—you want nothing better than to guard this great gift and carry it out into the world, to every city and place where Christ wants to come.  But how?  How do we face the coming century?

One thing is certain; in the future we won’t be able to call upon results obtained in the past, or on the achievements of those who came before us.  We will in a certain sense have to face the future with empty hands, without expectations, without judgments, without preconceived plans—relying only on the always present help of Him whom we serve at the altar.

To set foot on the unknown land of the Act of Consecration of Man you have to take the shoes off your feet, leave the knapsack with your achievements behind, and put down the purse with all spiritual riches.  Christ looks for beggars for the spirit who live in the awareness: separated from Him I have no strength do to anything.

The best preparation for this uncertain future is to enter into each Act of Consecration like a blank page, as if it were the first time you met Him.  And if that fails: as if it were the last time you met Him.  You will then experience that Christ gives the most precious thing that exists on earth: Himself.

–Rev. Bastiaan Baan, Sept. 4, 2022

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North American Newsletter: Summer 2021

News from the wider Christian Community:

North American Newsletter, Summer 2021

AND…

A podcast with Oliver Steinrueck in which he speaks about the upcoming world conference to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the founding of The Christian Community. The conference is called LOGOS — Consecrating Humanity and will be in Dortmund, Germany on October 7-11 2022. This is the first podcast that was offered in English. Click here to listen.

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From the planning group for LOGOS  “100 Years The Christian Community” festival 2022


Ninetta Sombart – Baptism in the Jordan

 

Dear members and friends of The Christian Community,

Visit our current homepage logos-2022.org

As of today, the St John’s Tide Newsletter is available online in several languages. One can travel via internet to all worldwide congregations and find a number of substantive contributions on current conference topics, but also reviews of previous major conferences. Those who like to listen can follow the monthly podcast. Those who like to exchange ideas with others will find our internet forum and the bilingual journal “This Moves Us.” as an interactive PDF document available by request.

With best regards,
Wolfgang Jaschinski
Redakteur/Editor LOGOS-2022 Newsletter

Ulrich Goebel und Tim Gottschalk
Tagungsbüro / Conference Office:  Hainallee 40, D 44139 Dortmund

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From the organizers of the 2022 Worldwide Conference

From the organizers of the 2022 Worldwide Conference:  Logos–Consecrating Humanity

Dear members and friends of The Christian Community,

We would like to draw your attention to our extended homepage logos-2022.org that includes the Easter Newsletter online in 6 languages. Further, one can travel via internet to all worldwide congregations and find substantive contributions on conference topics, but also reviews of previous large conferences. Those who like to listen can follow the monthly podcast. Those who like to exchange ideas with others may use our internet forum and the bilingual journal “This Moves Us.” as an interactive PDF document. We are currently working on making more multilingual pages available.

Nowadays, we experience for the second time a worldwide Passion of unimagined magnitude. May Easter give us the strength for an inner and outer resurrection.

With best regards,

Wolfgang Jaschinski
Redakteur/Editor LOGOS-2022 Newsletter
newsletter@logos-2022.org

Ulrich Goebel und Tim Gottschalk
LOGOS Tagungsbüro / Conference Office:  Hainallee 40, D 44139 Dortmund
info@logos-2022.org

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100 Years -The Christian Community – CG 2022 becomes LOGOS

CG 2022 becomes LOGOS

The planning team for the “100 Years The Christian Community” festival is sending this e-mail to all priests, coordinators, and to our correspondents and friends.

Dear members and friends of the Christian Community,

As usual, you may find the current multilingual newsletters for our festival “100 Years TheChristian Community” at https://cg-2022.org/wp/index.php/filedownload/.

In these days, we appreciate the homily of Bastiaan Baan:
https://www.thechristiancommunity.org/blog/second-coming-far-or-near :

The greatest closeness is: being far and feeling near.
The greatest distance is: being near and feeling far.

So we may also keep contact to the preparation of our festival “100 Years The Christian Community”, use our technical communication channels: www.cg-2022.org.

With warm greetings and good wishes for the ending Advent season and for a Christmas that challenges us all.

–Dr. Wolfgang Jaschinski
Redaktion des CG-2022 Newsletters “100 Jahre Die Christengemeinschaft”
Editor of the CG-2022 Newsletter  “100 years The Christian Community”
Tagungsbüro / Conference Office:  Mergelweg 31, D 42781 Haan