From: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 11:58 PM To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup" Subject: Christian Renewal Ministries International
From: Gregory Richardson To: Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup Subject: What is CRMI? CRMI (Christian Renewal Ministries International) is a "New Reformation" ministry. We are neither Messianic nor Hebrew Roots. We are a transition ministry. Early on, we made a conscious decision to avoid Hebrew terminology and Hebrew names which are unfamiliar to "Mainstream" Protestant Christians. Our purpose is to present the Holy Days and the Torah in a non-threatening way by continuing the reformation. We do not want to take Christians away from their churches, but reform the churches from within. What many do not realize is that Martin Luther stopped far short of where he knew the church should go. He saw the reformation as "incremental". The Puritan reforms in 17th century England were another step in the reformation. Although we have seen a long period of stagnation and decline in the church we believe that the time is right for the final phase of the reformation. The government and law of the United States of America were patterned after a "Biblical Blueprint" as explained by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. Our founding fathers knew that the source of all law must be God. They would never have instituted new laws without consulting the Law of God first. Unfortunately that is not the case with our modern Congress. Our strategy is simple: 1) Show Christian the relevance of the Biblical Holy Days to the ministry of Jesus Christ and the plan of God. 2) Show Christian the relevance and wisdom of the "Divine Instructions" of God. As a "New Reformation" ministry it is our goal to gradually transition Christians, through education, toward "Biblical Christianity" and away from "Traditional Christianity." ***************** We have a message board on which we post all of the latest Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup postings. The following posting was left on our message board anonymously. I thought I would share it with the group. Gregory R. http://www.frugal.com/~crmi/ temples of stone ==> temples of ideas Saturday, 20-Sep-97 00:44:04 Message: "And it will be on the day that you will cross over the Jordan to the Land which Hashem your G-d is giving you. And you will erect for yourselves large stones and cover them with plaster...and you will write upon the stones all the words of this Torah with a clear explanation. (27:2-8) "I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that it's sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look upon my works ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) If you drive down the A38 to Salisbury Plain in England, there will appear in the distance a strange forlorn group of enormous stones erected in a circular pattern. These stones are called Stonehenge. Somewhere between 300 and a thousand years after the Jewish People left Egypt, Stonehenge was erected. Its origin and purpose remain a mystery. Some say that Stonehenge was a Druid temple. Others say it was an astronomical observatory. Others say it marks the grave of King Arthur. When the nations of the world wish to immortalize their conquests, they erect large stones as memorials to their military prowess and their dominion. When the Jews set up large stones it is because they are commanded to write on them "all the words of this Torah." Ozymandias, the Druids and King Arthur are wraith-like memories, faded by time, while "Am Yisrael Chai!" - The People of Israel and the Torah of Moshe live and endure. Gregory R. http://www.frugal.com/~crmi/ ************************************************************************