One United Body House Values

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One United Body House Values

Edited 5/1/2020

This is a fresh look at the Values of OUB.

  • Jane Johnson wrote a page on this topic in July of 2017.
  • For a long time we used to post that page regularly.
  • And use that page for dialog in every Beginners Group.
  • We let this practice slip.
  • It’s been at least a year since I have posted Jane’s page to our groups and chats.
  • This was a mistake.

Here is Jane’s original page.

Here is a fresh look at OUB Values.

  • The OUB Bench of 12 sets the overall tone for this family with respect to values.
  • It is essential that we live these values and impart this culture.

OUB Values:

We see that no one is under any bench here at OUB.

  • We see all believers as Kings and Priests according to the Order of Melchizedek.
  • We all are equal in contributing to the tasks before us.
  • Performance of a job description is not the gospel.
  • It is all have a go.
  • Do your best faithfully.
  • Help others to find their place of flow.

We have the primary values of love, unity and Oneness.

  • “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Ephesians 4:1-6

We are a family.

  • We love one another.

“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”                                    1 Corinthians 13:4-7

  • Loving one another costs each of us.
  • The price that we pay to love one another is being a living-sacrifice.
  • We love one another by suffering long, bearing all and enduring all.
  • We have Perfect Love as our Ultimate Goal. 

We give to one another.

  • Fathers give.

We give freely to Beginners.

  • Our Beginner level materials are free.
  • We require donations in order to access more advanced materials.

We don’t accept donations as a group.

  • All donations are to individuals.

We give back to those who gave to us.

  • Everyone has a responsibility to work in the vineyard.
  • Those who work as fathers in the OUB House have the right of support.
  • This means that they have the right to expect financial giving in return for their spiritual giving.
  • See 1 Corinthians 9:4-12
  • Every father here has the same bills to pay as you do.
  • Honoring a father includes financial giving (if able).

‘Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”’  1 Timothy 5:17-18

Our giving is not limited to financial giving.

  • Everyone in the OUB House has chores to do in the OUB House.
  • There is much behind the scenes work that has to be done.
  • We each do some and all gets done.

We assist with the work of the OUB House.

  • No large family can function with the parents doing all of the work.
  • Everyone helps out.
  • In this way children prepare to become parents themselves.
  • Most of us didn’t grow up in a large family.
  • If you want to see what this is like I highly recommend the 1968 movie “Yours, Mine and Ours” .
  • OUB is a very big family with many fathers.
  • There is still more work to be done than that which the fathers can do.
  • It’s not good for the fathers or the House if the fathers try to do everything themselves.

We seek to avoid Triggering.

We handle offense as required by Scripture.

We take responsibility to talk with anyone who we know feels that they have been injured by us.

  • We go to talk with anyone that we know has been offended by our words or actions.
  • We don’t allow ourselves to wait for them to come to us.

We honor all, but do not require others to honor us before giving of ourselves to them.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?”  Matthew 5:44-46

We share from a “This is what I am seeing” perspective and encourage dialog.

  • We remain open to dialog with one another.
  • We are able to disagree and continue to honor one another.
  • We do not debate to prove ourselves right.
  • Dialog is a corporate seeking of truth.

We have a Discovery Culture.

  • We emphasize the need for each to have a living and active personal journey of discovery.
  • We share testimony of what we see.
  • We submit what we see to the House as a whole for ratification.

We do not consider revelation given to us as our property.

“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”  Deuteronomy 29:29

  • All revelation given to us is the inheritance of the Universal Ecclesia.
  • This is why we do not copy write our materials.

We humble ourselves.

  • We humble ourselves to allow others to father us.
  • This may be a father / son relationship.
  • Or a father / father relationship.
  • We each have unique personal journeys.
  • We all have need of the testimony of other’s journeys.

We chose to not vet one another.

Vet | Define Vet at Dictionary.com

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vet

“to submit (an animal) to veterinary care,” 1891, from veterinarian. The colloquial sense of “subject to careful examination” (as of an animal by a veterinarian, especially of a horse before a race) is first attested 1904, in Kipling.

  • Instead, we chose to function from wisdom.
  • We chose to give people a chance to learn by doing when they have desire to do.
  • Wisdom will know where to begin in facilitating someone towards their goal.
  • Humorous Extreme Example: “I want to be President of the United States.”  “Great!  Let’s start by getting you elected to the student council.”

We seek to not take camp.

  • This means that we are always going up higher on our personal and family journeys.

 

 

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Bill has been seeking truth all of his adult life since first believing in Jesus in 1978. Bill's search for Truth brought him to Ecclesia Framework now called One United Body (OUB). OUB is now his spiritual home and family. Bill's new names are John, Father of Many Generations and Father of One. He identifies strongly with John the Beloved. He has a heart to see the Universal Body of Christ become functionally One. B Sc Cornell University, MTS Ontario Theological Seminary. Here is Bill's PayPal information should you desire to trade into him: billbrady633@gmail.com, paypal.me/BillBrady633