The Gospel outside of the temple
José Passini

"For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel."
- I Corinthians, 1:17.

 
In many Christian religions, the term defines evangelize the understanding and application of the teachings contained in the New Testament in particular. In Spiritualism, this particularity is revealed in the emphasis that is given to the experience, the exemplification of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles, not only in times of religious practice, but in all situations of life.

The very understanding of what it means religion was modified from the teachings of Jesus. With him, you learn that religion is not something magical to be experienced inside the temples. No more that idea that religion is practical mystic, contemplative, ritualistic, full of formulas and repetitive offerings carried out within the so-called "House of God". Religion, according to his teachings, and especially his examples, became, for that you understand the lessons, a new way of living, of relating with others, in all environments, at all times. Teaching that God is present everywhere in the universe, has extended its range of temples, showing the universe as an immense temple: "In my Father's house are many mansions" (Jn 14: 2).

Jesus freed thus the human need of attendance to the temple, there to meet with God. The Master never invited anyone to pray in a temple. On the contrary, when the Samaritan manifested itself in order to worship God in the Temple of Jerusalem, the Master disavowed such an attitude, telling her: "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father God is spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. "(Jn 4: 21 and 24). For Jesus there were no sanctuaries, special places. His teachings, his healings, his prayers were always carried out wherever it is found.  

Jesus was a educator of souls 

However, a religious conception liberating not please those who want to exercise religious power, dominating consciences. They seek to keep religion as something magical, mystical, ecstatic, complex enough to have access to it only the learned and the wise, people supposedly special, they would be more qualified to intermediarem posts creature to the Creator, and vice versa. Jesus gave enfranchisement letter to humanity, in relation to priestly intermediation, to inform the human that she has the legitimate and inalienable right to communicate with his Creator, directly, anywhere where you are: "But when you pray , enter into thy closet, and shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. "(Matt. 6: 6).

He was crucified exactly the courage to counter the power of priests at that true religious dictatorship.

Jesus was a educator of souls, who always emphasized the need for the creature's commitment to educate themselves, to progress, as taught in the Sermon on the Mount: "So let your light shine before men (...)." (Mt 5: 16). Every religious message of the Master is based on the effort of the creature in order to reveal this divine heritage that we all carry. No thanks, besides the grace of life. Nothing privilege: "(...) and then he shall reward every man according to their works." (Mt 16: 27).

His message is a real challenge, to transcend the limits of the old law, which called for "an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." (Ex 21: 24)  

The Master did not want disciples liabilities 

Jesus outlines a new horizon in the religious conception of the world: "(...) unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." (Mt 5: 20). "Ye have heard that it was said, will you love your neighbor and your enemies odiareis. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, and pray for those who persecute and slander; (...). "(Mt 5: 42 and 43).

As an educator who was not Jesus wanted his disciples liabilities, delighted, dazzled. Rather, the feeling has always sought to play along with the call for the creature raciocinasse, to know, to understand why he should act this or that way.

The Sermon on the Mount, which for many is just an ode to the feeling, is also a powerful message to the intelligence, reasoning: "And which of you is the man, asking him his son bread, will give him a stone ? And he ask a fish, will give him a snake? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him? "(Matt. 7: 9-11).

Understanding that Jesus' teaching system is based on binomial feeling / reason, Spiritualism teaches that evangelism is not restricted only to the field of feeling, because rational faith began unquestionably with Jesus: "Behold the fowls of the air, they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? "(Matt. 6: 26). By teaching the creature to not create fantasies about faith, shows the dividing line between what should be the object of man's concern, and what should be given to God, asking: "Which of you can, with all his care, add one cubit to his stature? "(Matt. 6: 27) 

The importance of good relations 

Religious education provides that Jesus the man leads him to become aware that it will be repeated through prayer that we will be pleasing to God: "And when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do, who think that for their much speaking will be heard. "(Matt. 6: 7). Not through offerings or flattery: "Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave there before the altar of your offer, and you will reconcile with your brother first, and then come and offer thy gift. "(Mt 5: 23 and 24).

In his educational work of the Human Spirit, Jesus showed the importance of good relationships with others as a path to God, as well as understand the Apostle John, who recorded: "For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? "(I Jn 4: 20).

But with the passage of time, the axis of the Christian message went away, leaving the area of study, meditation, prayer, conscious of the light passing to the external practices.

These simple religious truths that were within reach of humble fishermen, widows and downtrodden were, over time, relegated to the background, having been put first and foremost ritual, ceremony, handling objects of worship , sailing, wine, smoke, the cantochãos, a whole lot of external practices alienating sought in Roman paganism, which distanced the man increasingly autoaprimoramento effort advocated by the Master.

Unfortunately, the pronouncements of Jesus liberators were not the object of study by theologians, who created the liturgy, the sacraments, and, worse still, the hideous theory of eternal punishment, dispelling the image of the Merciful God, so well delineated by the Master. 

Evangelisation is a continuous process 

The Christian message was apequenada, pruned, grafted by those who took possession of it, building a Salvationist and atemorizadora religion based on mystical attitudes and the belief that the blood of Jesus would be the redeemer of the sins of mankind. It emphasized ecstatic worship the dead-Jesus, at the expense of the effort to follow Jesus-alive. Evangelizing came to mean the delivery of the creature inside the temples, where it should assume an attitude entirely passive, awaiting getting the blessings of God, that would be achieved through prayers repeated intensely, if not long penance.

But, Master, knowledge of human frailty, I knew that somehow it would happen, so he promised the Comforter: "But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said. "(Jn 14: 26)

Fulfilling his promise, sent us Spiritism, which is not just another Christian religion, but the very early Christianity, which resurgence in its purity, strength and objectivity original, standing out from other religions, at least in the West, by its highly educational aspect.

Within this perspective, it becomes clear that evangelize, the design spirit, has a much broader meaning than that which is understood by other Christian currents, as has the basic component, inseparable, the education element.

Evangelizing in spiritualistic conception, is not only to inform someone about the life, teachings and examples of Jesus, but mainly to raise awareness about the need for constant application of these theoretical knowledge to everyday life.

Evangelization thus understood, does not occur in a given period of time: it is a continuous process of awakening to the need of the creature's effort to promote its moral transformation, in a quest for self-improvement, which starts in a particular time of life, but that has some date which marks the end.