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Mission Statement
The
mission of the First Spiritualist Church of Lansing
is to seek new understandings of Universal Law,
bring together the spirit of brotherhood, further
build the progression of the soul, and allow harmony
to flow from the spiritual worlds to the physical
planes.
Declaration of Principles
Adopted by the National Spiritualist Association of
Churches
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We
believe in Infinite Intelligence.
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We
believe that the phenomena of nature, both
physical and spiritual are the expression of
Infinite Intelligence.
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We affirm that a correct
understanding of such expression and living in
accordance therewith, constitutes
true religion.
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We affirm that the existence and
personal identity of the individual continues
after the change called death.
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We affirm the communication with
the so-called dead is a fact scientifically
proven by the phenomena of Spiritualism.
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We believe that the highest
morality is contained in the Golden Rule,
"Whatsoever ye would that others
should do unto you, do ye also unto them."
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We affirm the moral
responsibility of the individual, and that he
makes his own happiness or unhappiness, as he obeys or disobeys Nature's Physical and
Spiritual Laws.
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We affirm that the doorway to
reformation is never closed against any soul,
here or hereafter.
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We affirm that the Precepts of
Prophecy and Healing contained in the Bible are
divine attributes, proven through Mediumship.
Paul
enumerates the gifts of spirit in 1 Corinthians
12:7-11.
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But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every
man to profit withal.
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For to one is
given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to
another the word of knowledge by the same
Spirit;
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To another
faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts
of healing by the same Spirit;
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To another the
working of miracles; to another prophecy; to
another discerning of spirits; to another divers
kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation
of tongues;
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But all these
worketh that one and selfsame Spirit, dividing
to every man severally as he will.
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