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The Catholicist Nation website is designed and assembled by David Beck.
You'll notice that I have absolutely no advertising
in this webzine and I refuse to have any. I want to be beholden to only one
source, and that is the Truth and Grace as expressed in Scripture.
The author's approach to this webzine
can best be summarized in this parenthetical note originally added
to "A Letter to a College Student":
For the particularly abrasive cynic, you'll note
that this site has no request for or link to make any donation. There is no
address or post office box to mail anything. There exists no organization in any
building anywhere, though a gathering of individuals in a building is not a bad
thing. Ample funding of a fine work is not a bad thing either, though Jesus was
far more interested in people worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth, and out of
that wholly caring for one another in a community in which all enjoy His
bountiful provision. The true church should have no name except that which comes
from the vibrant expression of His love through them in a World desperate for
what is real. I will add that I do provide an
email address for you to ask questions
or add a comment if
you'd like. I'd certainly like to know what you think.
With that in mind, I am always seeking
fellowship with those who'd like to contribute to this work. It does
not necessarily need to be monetary, but I certainly would like to
have patrons helping with a work deserving of that support. As it is
the entirety of this effort consists of my time and energy as God
wills by His abundant grace to see this through. I experience
tremendous joy from sharing these things no matter how it is
supported.
If you would like to help with
donations that is fine. I am particularly looking for fine people to
help me with the technical aspects of this site, and I have an
expansive vision for much more multimedia and interactive features.
I would also love to work with someone who really knows much more
about web design and web marketing than I do.
If you are interested, you are more than welcome to email me, and
that address once again is
here. (Alternate email is
here.)
I am also in prayer for help from those
well-versed in accounting and law, but who also insightfully
understand what it means to be ungrafted to the World. This is not
because I want to find novel ways to contract with the law,
betraying the very principles I elucidate in this site, but to know
more about what it means to be fully ungrafted in the most truthful
and gracious way. My own "wisdom as a serpent and innocence as a
dove" with regards to the earthy business of ministry will be
manifest only to the extent that I am well-versed in my own
God-given gift.
This is why we are commanded to employ
so many others to work with us in doing the business of the Kingdom.
To have rich whole ministry work it
requires the services of all seven of the motivational gifts Paul
notes in the twelfth chapter of Romans. It is the givers
(accounting) and organizers (law) who've been so thoroughly co-opted
by the World System that you rarely see them working in Kingdom
ministry, at least without making all the excuses they do to insist
that a pure worship assembly must be grafted to the World.
I confess I
am learning much myself, and long to be in a position of fully
appropriating all that the Kingdom offers and seeing that sowed into the
lives of everyone. One of my greatest desires is to see His beauty
and glory manifest around us and to do that within that community of
stakeholders joyfully coming together allowing God to work through
them to make that happen.
Thank you,
David Beck, author of this webzine
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2012
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