The vision for New Covenant House is the Kingdom of God here on Earth. It is a common purse community. Does that mean that there is also a common purse in the Kingdom of God?
No, in the Kingdom of God, there is neither purse, expenses nor income. In the Kingdom of God everything is held in common (Acts 2:44 and 4:32). No one claims anything for him or herself. We're not owners. We are stewards. Stewards manage or look after something on behalf of someone else, the whole community or God as the ancients would say.
Common purse communities only exist because none of us are large enough or have enough skills to care for everyone without interacting with the outside world. We still depend on them to obtain certain goods or services, but, certainly, the ultimate goal is to break free from the world and produce everything we need ourselves.
First, we can decide to need less. We can join with other communities and share what we have with them. We can learn to produce more things ourselves or use appropriate technologies to do it for us.
In the Kingdom of God, there is no money. The use of money tends to inspire greed and exploitation. It tends to cause division among us. Our goal is to live completely without the use of money or its equivalent, private property.
We believe it can be done. People of the world will have a difficult time with it. The shift in the way they would have to re-think their possessions is simply too radical. Our words may not convince them, but perhaps our actions will. That is why we have set a course for a different destination: The Kingdom of God.
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