Didache revised
21st Century "The Two Ways"
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INTRODUCTION
The first six chapters of the Didache focuses on righteousness. It describes two paths, one of life and one of death. The first six chapters also introduces us to the two laws of Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and Love your neighbor. It describes the first steps of the Beatitudes, Brotherhood, Honor and living a life that is pleaing to God The Father. All this teaches us that the yoke of Christ is righteousness, Beatitudes is our daily cross and brotherhood is a spiritual part of the Royal Priesthood.
The focus is to mature into a mighty oak of righteousness. As Christ’s first command was to seek the Kingdom of God and His (God the Fathers) righteousness. One cannot enter the Kingdom of God unless he/she learns to walk upright Remember, walking in the Kingdom is not a theory or doctrine, it is behavioral. Most of all, love each other as if life depended on it. Your ambassadorial call and purpose of priesthood will increase daily.
The following chapters within the Didache describe baptism in the water and spirit and the four pillars of church. The Didache is a solid foundation for any group that finds itself isolated from the world due to pandemics, severe weather storms, political and/or religious restrictions and war.
What People Say
The Didache promotes church practices and cultivates the personal practices of righteouness for the church member.
The manuscript is a composite document suggesting a multistage editing process over time.
The Way of Life is the love of God and of our neighbour. The latter on is spoken of at length.
21st century Didache (revised)
10 points of light
Love is sacrificial giving. [Christ was is now and ever will be a Giver. It often hurts to love.]
Love comes down. [Our help cannot come from man; it must come from outside.]
Love is God’s way to man. [We love for the simple reason He loved first]
Love is God’s grace: salvation is the word of divine love. [God loved; God gave….]
Love is unselfish love, it is not its own, it gives it away.
Love lives the life of God, therefore dares to “lose it.” [Refusal to lose his darkness]
Love his freedom in giving, which depends in wealth and plenty. [Agape results in material goods losing their compulsion.]
Love is primarily God’s love; God is Agape. “Even when it is attributed to man, agape is patterned on divine love. [Father knows what we could not love you until and unless He provided His own love for us to reciprocate.]
Love is sovereign in relationship to its object, and is directed to both “the evil and the good” it is “spontaneous”, “overflowing”, “unmotivated.” [Agape requires ultimate risk]
Love loves-and-creates value in its object. [It is Father’s love that gives us value.]
COMMIT TO MEMORY
THE NICENE CREED
21st century Didache (revised)
10 points of darkness
Darkness is acquisitive desire and yearning.
Darkness is an upward movement.
Darkness is man’s effort: it assumes that man’s salvation is his own work.
Darkness is egocentric love, a kind of self-assertion of the most eminent, noble and sublime kind.
Darkness tries to gain its life, a life divide, immortalized.
Darkness is the will to get and possess which depends on want and need.
Darkness his primary man’s love; God is the object of Eros. Even when it is attributed to God, Darkness is patterned on human love.
Darkness is determined by the quality, the beauty and worth, of its object; is not spontaneous, but “evoke” “motivated.”
Darkness recognizes the value in its object-and loves it only for its value.
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