The following is an apostolic letter on outreach efforts toward those often marginalzsed even within Christendom, as were marginalized in the time of Jesus the Christ, per the Pharisees and Sadducees, by Ecumenical Metropolitan of Antioch, Auriel Jones.
Grace and peace from God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, to all souls who have become participants in reading this apostolic letter from I, Auriel Jones, a servant of the Lord Jesus the Christ.
From the inception of the unfortunate debacle as recorded in the First Book of Moses, God has revealed His plan within the third chapter and fifteenth verse—the protoevangelion.
This plan—culminating in the birth of the God Among Us through the Person of Jesus the Christ—coming forth from the blessed womb of the Theotokos and Christotokos, and His preaching of complete restoration for all who will take up their cross and become redeemed as prior to the demise of humanity, has been challenged by the Pharisees and Sadducees in particular; it has even been challenged by those professing the Christ in what churches they gather in, whether within the Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, or outside of her.
These challenges have come forth through those who—knowing the faith yet forgoing their pathway through the valley of the shadow of death, and forgoing the plucking of the own beam in their own eye which has either been formed once more or hidden from their spiritual authorities—demean, harass, and cast off such as they were: fornicators and adulterers, the homeless and strife-stricken, the addicted, the atheists and agnostics, the Protestants, and practitioners of all sorts of spiritual infamy, among others.
As a result of these challenges from the spiritual authorities who knew the commandments of God yet forwent the greatest, love—the Pharisees and those within those churches professing Jesus the Christ—and from those who knew the commandments of God yet forwent their belief—the Sadducees and those within those churches professing Jesus the Christ, the very souls who as such many were once participants in those livelihoods, gravitate away from God and His Eternal and Mysteriously Glorious Kingdom.
They gravitate away rejecting the One Triune God, out of blinded hypocrisy from among those proclaiming to be His sheep; thus, their souls have become further entrenched in their condition, and empowered to be against the Christ, or have become anti-Christ as in the instance of the famed Montero Lamar Hill who has been lambasted in churches within the United States of America for his sexual orientation, with those persecutors claiming the Christ forgoing lambasting those who lay with children instead of someone desiring someone of the same sex, thereby culminating in his spiritual rejection of the holiness of God, despite the dogmatic stance of those professing the Christ and upholding orthodoxy, wherein there should be the logical and spiritually wise reasoning to forgo consistent criticism, instead letting one's light shine forth, and if desiring the Christ they will indeed come forth and grow as a fruitful tree.
Having written such in gracious rebuke, I write this apostolic letter—On Grafting into Christ the Rejected—that those professing the Christ whether within the Great and Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church of Jesus the Christ, or without, that the love of the Christ on the cross is brought to heart and mind once more as when presented before them in their time; for the Christ has said, "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." He has also uttered unto the world, knowing it should be stated once more toward those losing themselves in their walk with Him, "You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye."
In these instances, which hinder souls and rejects instead of redeems, these two utterances have been voided by the hearts of overly-zealous spirits and lazy spirits within or without Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Christianity.
Various souls, whether within the Great and Holy Church, or some schismatic assembling of churches outside of her practicing the faith as they know how, have forgotten their own past livelihoods in their zealotry, forgoing the notion that the Christ died and rose for what they were previously or continue to discreetly live as, in fulfillment of this protoevangelion.
Whoever professes Jesus the Christ as Lord and Savior, whether within the Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, or outside of her walls, must hearken to the call of the Christ in this paschal season, that He was lifted up and crucified for all, and that all must thereby remember the path they have come from before taking up the cross to walk with the Christ. Correct such spirits within, in one's sloth or zealotry, that the grafting into the Christ of the rejected may come forth soundly, and that one's soul is preserved from being cut off and cast into the everlasting darkness that is the eternal prison of the Lake of the Fire.
Do not demean the discouraged, yet encourage; do not neglect the homeless, yet assist them in the provision of food and shelter; do not strike with the lashes of a thousand rebukes, yet graciously guide, as the Lord God has for you through His deacons, presbyters, and bishops among others. Live by the example of the Christ within, if one claiming to follow the Christ truly has Him, and the Lord God shall allow His light to shine forth, gravitating all of the rejected to Him.
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