LRC, Houston – An Evolving Spiritual Community

The question above applies to ALL of our life; however, I am going to limit my scope to religion and or better yet, spiritual matters.

I spent a couple of decades of my life being instructed, preached at, and told one absolute after another. I was a babe, well, actually a teenager, so who was I to question my authorities? As a young adult I wanted to fit in and not face peer-pressure so, I didn’t question though doubts were increasing.

Can you relate to what I’m saying?

Finally, in my thirties, there was so much tension and turmoil going on within me (can you say Spirit?) that I began to see outward expressions and question boiling to the surface without any control. Lifting my hand in a denominational church when moved by a song (called special music), caused a lot of non-Christian stares.

So, I moved on, before being kicked out.

Of course wherever we go we find we’re still there.

Starting my own church was freedom with one exception. I was now the INSTRUCTOR and not the pupil. I told people what I BELIEVED, which was what a new group of theologians were saying. Actually they weren’t new, I had just discovered them. And it was in that “discovering” that I realized that if I was going to help people discover, I had to do less INSTRUCTING.

Thus, for the last five years or so, I now share, discuss, and exchange ideas with those that want the same. And talk about amazing discovering. Wow! And, we’ve just begun. We all need GUIDANCE, but we also need to take responsibility for our life and the things we CHOOSE to embrace. Where are you on the journey of spiritual life?

LRC is a community of people who are on a JOURNEY, both naturally and spiritually.

NATURALLY our journey began in the Patrick Thomas Bank Building on FM1960 in 1987. A year later we moved across the street into a strip center. A year later that we moved back to the South side of FM1960 in a free standing building what was once known as the Pep Rally. Two years later we bought an empty building at the corner of High Life Road and FM249: formerly a Walker Kurth Lumber building. Four years ago we bought six acres on Woodedge where we are now still building a community home.

SPIRITUALLY we began as reformed Baptists, took on some Catholics, and added a few crazy people. Slowly we shed our Baptist roots and became Charismatics with wild praise and worship. We slowly got our emotions under control and adopted an orderly apostolic culture. In 2007, the winds of change began to blow and we discovered that we really weren’t a church. Rules, rituals, dogma, and doctrine slowly gave way to relevant relationships and an intimacy with the Spirit that resides in all of us.

We’re still on the journey and always will be. Our CORE is Christian but we know God is too big to be confined to any one religion or denomination. We believe in unconditional love, not conditional love. We meet on Tuesday and Friday nights. There is no lecturing, no praise and worship, no sermons, just a community of people coming together to discuss how life can be lived more fully and abundantly.

Come and check us out. You’ll be surprised and I think pleased.

Strange Loops and Gestures of Creation

by Joseph Chilton Pearce

Strange Loops and Gestures of Creation brings the lifetime work of Joseph Chilton Pearce into symphonic resonance, sounding all of the themes that have made him one of the most significant thinkers of this time. The book, however, hardly repeats his previous work. Here it is framed in intimate, spiritual, and personal ways that open us to surprising revelations.

Joseph Chilton Pearce confronts, more clearly, precisely and convincingly than any previous writing, our dire cultural situation --- we live in a collective, society that lacks true meanings of nurturing in every way. He, with equal intensity, points toward the inherent capacity of the heart – the physical heart – to bring the survival oriented brain, functioning through violence, astute manipulative sensing and perceiving, and calculative cleverness, into balance and, indeed to new creative capacities.

The key to a creative culture lies in the phenomenon of the ‘strange loop’ between potential and actuality, the relation between the heart as the palpable presence within us of the universal, and the mind as the individual aspect of things. The many examples, ranging from biographical sketches of individuals to neurological research to intimate and personal stories, bring home the inescapable conclusions – we must find again the way to a holy science, that the spirit can be approached with all of the rigor of observational science, and the spirit is not ‘out there’ in the universe, but within our very being, both heart and brain.