Christianity and The Urantia Book With Preston Thomas

Our guest this week is Preston Thomas (link to bio) who will speak on sharing the Urantia Book with Christians. Preston wrote a Biblical retelling of Jesus' life called, The Life and Teachings of Jesus. It is not Part IV of The Urantia Book but is a book for Biblical Christians that puts the gospel accounts into chronological order based on the Urantia Book. Says Preston, "Is it important that we live and share the truths we have discovered in the Urantia Book with family, friends, and associates in the Christian world? Consider that: (1) We live in a Christian world; do we want to feel a part of this world or live separate from it? (2) There exists great harmony between basic Christian beliefs and the fundamental teachings of the Urantia Book. (3) The Urantia revelation exalts Christianity and calls us to minister to the Christian world. We are called to bring forth Jesus’ kingdom out of the cocoon of Christianity; our task is not to destroy the cocoon but rather to help the butterfly emerge. To achieve this task the Urantia Book's authors (the revelators) direct us to bring forth a new revelation of Jesus. It is Jesus, his actual teachings, his personal religion, his original gospel of the kingdom, and his real life demonstration of living the Father’s will, that is the hope of our dark and confused planet. The revelators prophecy that the teachings of Jesus are destined to rule our world, to bring about a bright new age in the near future—a spiritual renaissance. Our part is to relate to Christians, as Jesus did to the Jews, through the many truths that are held in common, especially through his life and teachings. In this way we may openly live the teachings of Jesus and seek to bring a new and better understanding of his actual gospel of the kingdom." If you are interested in outreach, please join us.