"The Way"

IT WAS WHAT THEY CALLED IT IN THE BEGINNING, BEFORE THEY PERVERTED THE MESSAGE AND CHANGED IT INTO "RELIGION." 

They have it all wrong.  It's not about some time in the future or some erroneous notion of salvation.  Salvation has already happened.  Rather it's about transforming your life - not by obeying rules or by punishing yourself, but by learning to allow transformation and Christ Enlightenment to occur.  This is authentic Christianity. This is what those who have been driven away have been looking to find!

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A Thought to Consider...

Life is really very beautiful, it is not this ugly thing we have made of it; and you can appreciate its richness, its depth, its extraordinary loveliness only when you revolt against everything -- against organized religion, against tradition, against the present rotten society -- so that you as a human being find out for yourself what is true. 

(Krishnamurti)

We Have Some Questions

A New Question will be added periodically.

1. If the point of Christianity is "saving souls", why didn't Jesus talk about it at all?
2. If the point of Christianity is avoiding hell, why didn't Jesus ever use the word in the original languages, and why in the world have our Bibles translated "Gehenna", the garbage dump outside the old city of Jerusalem, as "hell"? 
3. Jesus told us to love our neighbors as ourselves.  Why is that so hard for so much of the Church to understand?
4. My husband beat me nearly to death.  Finally my children and I got away and I got a divorce.  What sin have I committed that the Catholic Church won't let me receive the Sacraments?
5. My boyfriend and I live together and have a young child.  My parents' pastor came over and told me that I should take my daughter and move out because my boyfriend and I are "living in sin."  I don't make enough money to support the two of us.  Why would God want us to starve rather than live with the man I love and the father of my child?
6. Why do you get to decide what the Bible means for me?  I can read for myself!
7. I mean, heaven is nice and everything, but I have problems right here and now.  I am stressed beyond belief, life moves way too fast for me, and it seems like I don't have any time for myself.  I want help with those kinds of problems.  Why didn't I every hear about that in church?
8. Why won't you teach me to pray?
9. Why won't anyone in the Church talk about mysticism?  Why do the few churches that do talk about it tell me that only Saints can be mystics?
10. I am a single mom and have never been married.  My pastor won't baptize my daughter.  He says she's a bastard.  How does that reflect Christ's love?
11. My wife developed cancer in her 30s.  My Christian friends told me that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle, but this sure feels like it.  They told me if I pray and believe she will get better, but she keeps getting sicker.  What's wrong with me?
12. My pastor tells me only Christians go to heaven.  Wasn't Jesus a Jew?  Wasn't he a Jew when he died?  Isn't it true that Jesus wasn't ever a Christian, just as the Buddha was never a Buddhist? 
13. If God is the God of all, why would he send the majority of human beings to hell just because they aren't Christians?  Doesn't that sound more like a spoiled, angry child than the God of All?
14. My pastor tells me that only people from my denomination are going to heaven, and so my job is to go out and convince people to come to our Church so they can be saved.  I can't find justification for that in the Bible or anywhere else - doesn't this mean that Jesus isn't saved because he wasn't Christian?

Our Charism

"I believe the only really valid thing that can be accomplished in the direction of world peace and unity at the moment is the preparation of the way by the formation of men and women who, isolated, perhaps not accepted or understood by any 'movement,' are able to unite in themselves and experience in their own lives all that is best and most true in the various great spiritual traditions.  Such men and women can become as it were 'sacraments' or signs of peace, at least.  They can do much to open the minds of their contemporaries to receive, in the future, new seeds of thought."

~Thomas Merton

THE WAY

It's what we called it in the beginning.  We were followers of The Way, a new way of life they had been taught by this strange teacher of wisdom and enlightenment who taught in a way that the others could not.  He brought us hope, taught us the path to peace and wholeness, and taught us to love.  The other teachers eventually had him killed because they saw him as a threat to their power and control, despite the fact that he clearly said that he wanted neither, that he had come to free people.

Then the "other concerns" swept in.  Suddenly we had to be acceptable to the Roman government, and the stories that were written were changed to accomplish that.  Even before that Paul came and started the "Institution."  His followers, who wrote in his name, were even worse than he was.  Before we knew it The Way was transformed into first a highway, then a toll road, and finally a toll super-highway - all acceptible to the powers that be.  It was no longer the way that Yeshua taught.  It was no longer about wisdom and mysticism, it was about salvation and life after death.  We don't think he would recognize it.

When the Institution came they discarded many of our scriptures and kept a few.  They added the writings of Paul and his followers.  The final blow was when the government finally accepted us.  The teachings have never been the same, and the original focus of mysticism, wisdom, and spirituality was all but lost...   

Christ Enlight is about recovering The Way.  It's about getting back in touch with the original path Jesus taught by stripping away all the nonsense added by the Church.  It's about the teachings of Jesus - wisdom teachings and enlightenment teachings - that will truly transform your life and move you toward union with the reality of God.  The Way teaches and believes in a God who is always loving and healing.  Come, experience the difference that occurs when you follow a path that leads to authentic transformation!