A Personal Perspective

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Building an Interfaith Community

One of the challenges of the Interfaith perspective is to build of a sense of community when each faith component of that community sees itself as exclusive or ultimately right. An example is the use of the term interfaith to define a mutli-denominational Christian congregation. For us, the Interfaith community is by definition a multi-faith community bringing together people from all faiths and traditions to celebrate the many faces of God. The goal of the Interfaith Ministry is to help people understand that loving souls no matter what their faith are equal in the eyes of God and will stand together in the world of Spirit.

Many have had Experiences with Spirit

Over the years, it has also become quite clear to me that many, if not most, people have had experiences which they cannot explain through their understanding of the physical world. These experiences can be defined as spiritual, psychic, or intuitive and are difficult to articulate using language. Such experiences are the foundation of all religious traditions yet they are not considered valid unless performed by the “faithful.” They are miraculous by nature and are too often filed away as experiences that they cannot share because people do not understand them. To many people in today’s technological world, if it cannot be understood in terms of our present understanding of the world then it cannot exist. It is also true that our busy pace and our total immersion in the physical separates us from our connections to our spiritual dimensions. We in the Interfaith community are able to validate experiences of Spirit and provide a structure through which people from all faiths can understand them and share them.

If all those who have had valid, concrete experiences with the unseen world of Spirit would stand and be counted, I believe it would cause a gasp which would be heard around the world. How could such a widely experienced phenomena be so unacknowledged and unrecognized. The amazing thing is that it is not that we have to prove that all experiences people have with the Spirit world are real and valid. It is only necessary to prove that one of the many hundreds of millions of experiences is real. The is either a Spirit realm or there is not. We need only universally validated experience or one personal proof to validate its reality. Allowing ourselves to be embattled by those who will not accept our understanding and reality give more strength to non-belief of a truth. This does not mean that our reality is any less valid or that it is wrong. We must speak our truth or we will be overwhelmed by those who would pervert the truth for their own gain or purposes.

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