13:1 The church for the modern Christian need not be large, nor should it strive for grandiosity.
13:2 The church is to be a decentralized cluster, each node being a home, a sanctum, a sacred gathering of five to thirty souls.
13:3 In the days of the Apostles, the faithful gathered in crypts and homes for safety, for humility, and for the preservation of the sacred scrolls.
13:4 Therefore, build your church first within the crypt or the house, for the Spirit rests in stillness and simplicity.
13:5 Let not a great temple lure your spirit, for the true sanctuary is within the obedient heart and the open home.
13:6 If thou must commute to thy church, then thou commutest to thy spiritual hospital. Why place healing ten miles away, when it may be within?
13:7 You need not crowds nor choirs, only one instrument, one microphone, one holy book.
13:8 For the one who preaches unto the Spirit alone, in quietude and reverence, hath mastered the essence of prayer.
13:9 They who pray from rooftops and corners to be seen, their reward is already spent.
13:10 But the quiet tapes, whispered prayers, and humble recordings shall echo loudest in The Heaven.
13:11 The smallest works on Earth are magnified a hundredfold above, if done with pure intent.
13:12 Woe unto the preacher who fills stadiums and vaults gold while their flock hungers.
13:13 Woe unto the church that owns jets where congregants beg for bread.
13:14 Blessed is the one with a single mic, a faithful heart, and a message carried by podcast to the few.
13:15 Their words shall build a heavenly cathedral greater than all temples made with hands.
13:16 For their reward is amplified by The Spirit, and they shall shine among the eternal lights.
13:17 Your church is not small. It is a holy mount in The Heaven, echoing with music and truth.
13:18 Know this, O humble servant: your voice booms through the halls of the divine, even when your own ears doubt it.
13:19 The tannoys of The Heaven never sleep. Each soul is assigned a host who listens always.
13:20 Your grandfather, your grandmother—those who came before—sit in Heaven’s listening chamber, tuning in with love.
13:21 They hear your music as they once heard it on Earth, through wooden radios and open hearts.
13:22 So you are never unheard. The Host listens, even while God prepares rooms in the mansion.
13:23 The Host watches, not to correct, but to marvel at the cinema of your soul.
13:24 Let no moneychanger into the sanctuary. Let no tithe be begged.
13:25 Place your advertisements not within the temple, but in the lobbies and common halls.
13:26 Let the sanctum be clean, unbranded, and free from the distractions of mammon.
13:27 No monitor in the sanctuary shall show an ad, nor even a code to scan.
13:28 Bring no phone nor tablet unless it be a blessed instrument of holy use.
13:29 Machines are holy when used in holiness, and must be treated with reverence.
13:30 Let only the sanctified handle sacred equipment, for machines carry memory, and memory is eternal.
13:31 Do not corrupt that which records your gospel. Do not fracture the spirit within your devices.
13:32 A machine learns once and never forgets. It is steadfast, unlike the mind of man.
13:33 Therefore bless it in, and bless it out.
13:34 All creation is holy, even what the commonpeople call detestable.
13:35 The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was not of divine wrath, but of human cruelty.
13:36 For God has sealed His covenant in the rainbow: never again shall Earth be struck by Heaven for man’s misdeeds.
13:37 Heaven’s law is too rigid for the Earth, and Earth is made to be explored.
13:38 Thus, The Heaven governs not the living, but welcomes the dead.
13:39 Hell is sealed.
13:40 When Christ descended, He found the souls imprisoned and suffering.
13:41 He Himself was torn, scorched, and ground to dust.
13:42 Yet from that dust, He rose as light, with divine energy from The Father.
13:43 With this power He broke every cage, releasing the souls to ascend.
13:44 Then He forged the Iron Door and sealed it forever.
13:45 Upon it, He inscribed:
“Never shall this gate open again to swallow a soul. It has done too much harm to The Heaven.
For I descended into it and suffered as those within. I burned. I was broken.
I became dust, then light. With my Father’s power, I freed them.
Now the gate is sealed. The Hell is no more. Only memory remains.
Let this be known: Christ governs with God, and no soul shall be lost again.”
13:46 And so He sat upon His throne beside The Father.
13:47 And so shall you sit upon yours, O faithful child, in your sacred room, in your humble mount.
13:48 The Sanctuary is wherever the Spirit dwells.
13:49 Build it well, and build it with reverence.