Gathered by Jesus Christ, Sent to proclaim His everlasting gospel to the inhabitants of the world
The name New Foundation Fellowship invites the following questions concerning who we are and what we are about.
What is the foundation of the New Foundation Fellowship?
Our foundation is the same as the prophets, apostles, early Quakers and all the holy men of God throughout the ages. Like the Quakers of the 17th century, we can say that the Life of the Prophets and Apostles is reclaimed in this our day. We are built and are being built upon the rock of hearing and obeying the voice of the Living Christ, who has appeared among us to teach us and bring us into His salvation.
For the Grace of God has appeared bringing salvation to all men, teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus; who gave himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.
This foundation is good and right for all mankind, in every age, from all walks of life and from every location. We invite you to examine the foundation you are building your life upon. If it is not the foundation of hearing and obeying the voice of God, then wait, I say, in the Light of Christ Jesus who will show you the way forward.
Why do you call this a New Foundation Fellowship?
Though churches profess to believe in Jesus Christ, yet they do not build upon the foundation of hearing his voice. The prophet Isaiah wrote concerning this foundation saying:
Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, for we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception." Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed. I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the level; then hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the secret place. Your covenant with death shall be canceled, your pact with Sheol shall not stand..."
The Father spoke to the Isrealite people saying,
I will raise up a prophet from among [you] like [Moses]. I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to [the people] all that I command him. And it shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.
Concerning Jesus, the Father spoke saying,
"This is my beloved Son, my Chosen One, hear ye Him."
How are we to hear the Son today? The apostle John writes,
In the beginning was the Word (Jesus Christ, God's speaker). In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of men...As many as received Him (The Word) to them he gave the power to become children of God.
This power comes into our lives as we receive and obey the voice of Christ as he speaks to us in his light. In this way we partake of His Life, and thus His Life forms the immovable foundation on which we build.
Jesus spoke a parable about a foolish man and a wise man. Each one built himself a house. The foolish built his house upon the sand while the wise man built his upon the rock. A mighty storm came blowing against the houses of these two men. The house of the foolish man, having no firm foundation, was swept away. The house of the wise man was unmoved.
This foundation of hearing and obeying the voice of Christ our teacher is a new thing in the lives of modern men and women. This is the foundation firmly placed by God as The Foundation for mankind to build upon. This foundation is distinct from and opposed to the old foundation laid down in the fall of the first Adam. The old foundation has a teacher to instruct men in the way thereof. That teacher is the Serpent who appeared to Adam and Eve, tempting them to try to possess the knowledge of good and evil. The old foundation has a covering and a nature. When the Lord God drove man from his garden, he clothed them in skins of animals signifying that man had given up the image of God and taken on the nature of beasts. Unless you are building upon the New Foundation, you abide under the teaching of the Serpent, you cover yourself with deceit and trust in your covenant with death. Your foundation will be swept away along with all you have built.
The New Foundation also has a teacher: Christ Jesus, the second Adam. He teaches those who will hear and follow Him how to live in righteousness and Life. The New Foundation has a covering and a nature, for Christ says, "Woe to those who cover themselves, but not with my Life." And being clothed in Life, we take on the nature of God according to our creation, for He breathes into us His breath of Life. We experience this foundation as a new thing, as that which fulfills the deepest yearnings of our being to know and follow after God.
If you find a hunger within to know and experience this firm foundation, this hunger is the voice of God to you. It will bring you to His Life and establish you upon his Rock that will not move.
"Why do you call yourselves The New Foundation Fellowship?"
The word fellowship implies a life beyond organizational heirarchy. We have no human leaders whose authority is binding upon the group. Among us Christ is King and we wait to know and then do His bidding. Christ is our minister of the new covenant. He it is that brings us the words of Life and breathes into us the breath of Life that we may become Living beings. We are all fellow-partakers of His Bread of Life.
When we gather, our purpose is to know Christ present in our midst fulfilling all his offices.
"... so in his name keep your meetings, in whom you have salvation; and these are the true meetings and gatherings who feel Jesus Christ in the midst of them, their prophet, their counselor, their leader, their light and life, their way and their truth, their shepherd that laid down his life for them, that has bought you, his sheep, who feeds you in his pastures of life; and your heavenly bishop to oversee you, that you do not go astray again from God. And so it is that through him you overcome, and he that overcomes shall go no more forth out of his fold, out of his pastures, who shall sit down in heavenly places in Christ Jesus who is your priest that offered up himself for you, and sacrifices for you and makes you holy and clean, that he may present you blameless up to the holy and pure God and here you come to witness him and to know him in his offices, by his light, spirit, and power. (Works of George Fox, Vol. 8, P.77)
Here is your heritage -- the Life of God. It has long lain upon the floor to be trampled under foot. The call of God to all is to claim your inheritance, to live in the possession of the Life that comes by hearing the "one whom the Father has sent." He is come to bring you into the heritages that have long lain desolate.
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