Oct 02 2008

“Dreaming Dreams and Seeing Visions” – A Troy Perry Sermon

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1. # Tichy AKA Itziaron 03 Nov 2008 at 11:11 am

   Owwwww this is incredible!

   This was a sermon to celebrate the 2Oth year of the UFMCC and now last month we have been celebrating 40 years of the UFMCC. An amazing achievement !!!!

   Well done Rev Perry for having a dream and for “fighting” for that dream to be a reality.

   And like Rev Perry did say; I am also looking forward to the day when I shall come to The City of God knowing that I am fully accepted by My Heavenly Parents.

   I am a member of MCC Brightwwaves, Brighton. My 1st visit was on the 15th July 2007, was made a member on the 25th of November and was baptized on the 24th October 2008.

   Everyday, I thanks my Heavenly Parents for giving Rev Perry the vision, courage and strong faith to see UFMMC becoming a reality for so so many of us.

   In a leaflet that I was given on my 1st visit it does say that MCCs around the world do save people’s lifes….I know it did for me!!!

   Thanks Rev Perry for starting the UFMCC!!!!

   PUSH + FROG + GAY = GBYA!!!!!!!

   Tichy

2. # Donald Chalmerson 09 Dec 2008 at 3:01 am

   Dear All at UFMCC, and Tichy (we’ve crossed paths just yesterday in another forum; obviously, we are all on the same wavelength – together !)

   I’m glad that Troy Perry did find the right words to say, and that he did not mince his words addressing religious organizations 20 years ago, for these words are still reverberating worldwide, via the international web (then still just a dream, but now a reality): “I do not have to mince words, nor do I have to please you or even persuade you. I owe you very little. You did not create this body; you do not live in it. You do not have to defend it when individuals try to destroy it; and I will not let you tell me what I can do with it !” – and that he had a few things to say.

   I also, from far away Australia, would like to say a big thankyou to Troy, and to all at UFMCC for your vision and hard work over the last 40 years, “tearing down walls, and building up hope”, and (hopefully) participation in next year’s 5th Parliament of the World’s Religions, which is to be held in my hometown of Melbourne, December 2009. The theme for the Parliament is “Make a World of Difference, Hearing Each Other Healing the Earth”. Topics for discussion will include poverty, global warming, terrorism, social cohesion and the situation of indigenous peoples – and to take responsibility for cultivating awareness of our global interconnectedness.

   In preparation for this event, a few weeks ago, I went to Sydney for a friend’s birthday, and took the opportunity of dropping by the Catholic and Anglican Cathedrals and “gifting” copies of my “Peace and Harmony” laminated artworks to them. At the Archbishop’s Palace, I knocked at the door, having first spoken to a lay person attending Mass, and handed over my treasure – but was not invited in to share afternoon tea. Archbishop George Pell and his Jensen Anglican counterpart of Sydney are homophobic, to say the least.

   Since I have been in this game of getting to know quite a few clergy post my “Peace and Harmony” artwork, I have found that most of the working clergy I have met do not have a lot in common with the hierarchy, and care less for the power games which have brought them to prominence in the first place. I also delivered unannounced four copies to the Uniting Church, and the Lutheran Church (which I probably have not contacted before), and visited the Sydney’s Grand Synagogue, where I had a very nice introduction to Judaism, without the snip, or proof of it. They received my gift without comment, although I did note that their word of greeting “Shalom” incorporates the concept of “Peace and Harmony” (so, I could have equally called the work “Shalom”).

   While at the Synagogue, I wondered aloud as to why (when the insight of Wisdom is so clearly identified and praised in Proverbs as better than jewells, than the finest gold, and the purest silver), that organized religion’s synagogues, churches, and mosques refer to Ecclesiastes and the Wisdom of Solomon so little, I was reminded by the fine upright older gentleman congregant running the tour/visit that Judaism is founded upon the first 5 Books of the Bible (all those ones that gave me a great headache when I read through them)(and/or the 613 interpretive texts of the Torah, if I remember correctly)….

   So it seems that Solomon’s wisdom is counted as little…. Even though the Bible says “your life is shaped by your thoughts…: Getting Wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever else you get, get insight. Love wisdom, and she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will bring you honour. She will be your crowning glory” (Proverbs 4.23, and 4.7-9). The Golden Rule gets its first mention (as far as I have been able to find) in Leviticus 19:18. The Lord has told us what is good. What God requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God (Micah 6.8).

   I hope to meet with representatives of your church in Melbourne at next year’s Parliament, and to present them with my “Peace and Harmony” laminated artwork which encapsulates the universal loving principles you are working towards….for….Our One Hope (to love, and to be loved, in return) Unites All. May all of life’s blessings and benefits be yours (also)….

   May all the blessing, honour and power so freely given to us return to the One God who gave life to us…. Long may your love light shine long !

   Donald Chalmers, a piper too, at “The Intricate Weaving of Something Beautiful”: http://www.wound-wisdom.tk .

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