Make Christianity Great Again!

By Leroy Grey

Make Christianity Great Again is an introduction to Christ's 9 Principles of Spiritual Independence, Equality and Individual Empowerment, revealing why the religion of Christianity abandoned those 9 kingdom keys soon after Christ’s death, and what we must do to Make Christianity Great Again!

INSIDE You'll: 
•Read the amazing true story about how God took me to Heaven, gave me a message for all of Christianity, and why I had to wait 43 years to deliver it!
•Learn when and how Christianity became a religion that abandoned Christ’s 9 kingdom keys!
•Understand the doctrines the early founders invented to empower their religion and keep Christians in a permanent state of spiritual dependence! 
•Find out the shocking truth as to the true heretics and why millions were slaughtered in the name of Christ! 
•Discover the three spiritual weapons Christianity refuses to teach, weapons every Christ-believer should know and use! 
•Follow my journey of discovery as I uncover an amazingly powerful form of worship once practiced widely in the 17th century, and rediscovered in 1971.
•Find out the REAL meaning of blasphemy and Christ’s definition of the unforgiveable sin (NOT taught in Sunday School)!
•SPECIAL BONUS: free guest enrollment to our online school & social network, RENEW-GATHER-BUILD.

Furthermore, just as President Trump has called all loyal, patriotic Americans to Make America Great Again, through our united efforts and a commitment to those principles recorded in our founder’s documents, so the author calls all loyal, born-again Christians to help Make Christianity Great Again, first by understanding Christ’s nine Spirit-centered but scripturally based principles, and second, by our commitment to follow Jesus, NOT the religion that refuses to teach those nine principles. 

Christ’s single purpose for teaching those nine kingdom keys was to enlighten you, so you could enter God’s kingdom within and “Know the truth” that will, “Make you free.” (John 8:32) 

Therefore, Christ’s teachings and actions make it abundantly clear (to those without a religious agenda), that our dependence on religion and the religious clergy was to end. Jesus is “The Way, the Truth, and the Life”, not religion. And God is our teacher, not man (John 6:45). Join us, be enlightened, and help us spread the good news about how to Make Christianity Great Again!

• Language: English
• Publisher: 3Circles Community Publishing
• Release date: Jul 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9780979324116

Leroy Grey

Leroy Grey is a native of Maryland but due to the lack of opportunities at Sparrows Point High School and the racism he encountered for befriending an elderly black man at Bethlehem Steel, he wanted to leave the area and never look back. Thus began a lifelong search for truth and personal improvement. His first year in college ('64-'65) he wrote a college term paper on the Hallucinogenic drugs, then dropped out, moved into a Hippy commune, and in January 1966, at the age of 19, began experimenting with LSD (which was still legal at the time).  Unlike most people, who do LSD for fun or to escape reality, the author’s purpose was to duplicate the reported results of Harvard researchers, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert: extremely heightened awareness of all senses and a near-universal acknowledgment of an invisible spiritual realm.  Some of Mr. Grey’s many adventures are recounted in Make Christianity Great Again!, including his 11 years as a fugitive, his born-again salvation through acceptance of Jesus Christ, his gypsy-like lifestyle, and multiple entrepreneurial endeavors. However, Make Christianity Great Again! moves far beyond traditional redemption stories with biographical details. Inside you will find prophetic visions and outright miracles, including a trip to heaven while alive and fully conscious.  Make Christianity Great Again! is partially a journey of self-discovery but its focus is a historical expose of how the spirit-centered teachings of Jesus Christ were corrupted and made into the religion of Christianity, a religion that has in many ways settled for what is "good", thereby missing out on God's BEST!  In Make Christianity Great Again! you will be introduced to a deeper spiritual understanding of Christ's biblical teachings; you will learn when and how those teachings were corrupted; and you will be made aware of how the religious structure of Christianity has served to keep Christians in a state of permanent spiritual infancy, feeding endlessly on the spiritual milk of Christ's six "Elementary principles" instead of being fed the spiritual meat of "Christ's 9 Principles of Spiritual Independence, Equality and Individual Empowerment".

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Acknowledgements

DURING MY EARLY YOUTH, between eighteen and twenty-nine, I moved a lot, one year it was thirteen times. I traveled often, crisscrossing both the US and Canada many times, most often by hitchhiking. Getting a job was as easy as showing up at the Stevedore labor building in Baltimore, going to any construction site, or making candies and yogurt from my girlfriend’s van, selling them at health food stores – which was my first entrepreneurial effort when there were few rules and regulations. I lived this fast-paced, non-stop lifestyle for eleven years. And I dare say I met and talked with more people during those years than most people meet and talk to in a lifetime.

If it wasn’t for my personal journal, I wouldn’t remember most of the names or details regarding those I met, nor the places I worked. For there were literally thousands of names and hundreds of short temporary work places.

Then, beginning in 1975 with the first of my serious entrepreneurial endeavors, a mail-order seed company called Sower Seeds, my energies were directed primarily towards a series of home-based businesses. One of those businesses necessitated involvement with imports through Customs. Another got me invited to showcase our product in the Commodore booth at Comdex Atlanta, an international computer tradeshow. And my most successful business, as an Internet Services Provider (ISP) of R.A.V.E.N. Villages Internet, brought me into contact with entrepreneurs worldwide.

What I learned as a traveling gypsy turned serial entrepreneur will prove invaluable as we establish our two main business-ministries.

The first is Renew-Gather-Build, an online school, Christian social network, and collaborative projects incubator.

The second is 3Circles Church Communities, Inc. which is a real-world church community building business tasked with gathering the faithful, funding, designing, planning, and overseeing the construction of those communities.

It would be nearly impossible to thank all the businessmen, clergymen, farmers, parents, blue-collar workers, and authors who helped educate me, enabling me to establish my expertise in numerous areas important to building community.

The result of those travels and business ventures has been the creation of a compressed learning environment, an incubator of ideas relevant to God’s calling. Those experiences helped me understand a variety of perspectives as I interacted with many different cultures and businesses around the world, all of which will prove invaluable as a community builder and leader.

And once I became a Christian, my thirst for a practical, immersive education never ended, it simply transformed. I devoured everything I could read about Jesus Christ and Christianity, being directed by my God-given curiosity and passion.

During the first twenty years of my Christian life, I attended many different denominations and studied the beliefs of ten times more. I really wanted to know why everyone talked about our unity as Christians, when in truth there are some 33,800 different denominations (World Christian Encyclopedia).

In this book, you will find those answers and the reasons why there is so much division among Christians.

Certainly, the contributions of the people I acknowledge have helped make the wisdom contained herein possible.

There was Al Baker, a Boy Scout buddy from Dundalk, Maryland, and his wife, Rebecca, who took me in when I was a fugitive in Canada, giving me a job and a place to live.

There was the Canadian, Alan Bibby, whom I only knew briefly. He filmed our efforts at creating community, for his documentary on various forms of family. His life as an international adventurer, videographer, and documentarian had a profound effect on me later in life.

Judy & Lynn Curtis of Middleton, Nova Scotia, helped Cindy & I establish a local newsletter. And later, Judy’s coaching on natural childbirth proved a lifesaver, when Cindy gave birth and I delivered our first child in a rural cabin without running water, outside St. John’s Newfoundland.

The Quakers of Argenta, British Columbia, with whom I shared their most amazing worship service. Later in life, after becoming a born-again Christian, I realized they had given me one of the most precious gifts I’ve ever received, an understanding of what Jesus meant when He said we are to Worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

Star Parker-Levan and her husband Courtney, friends from Halifax who moved to Ottawa and gave Cindy and our firstborn, Zoe, a place to rest and recuperate from the flu while I went ahead to re-establish us in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

I must acknowledge the Salvation Army member who was a criminal court judge. We visited him and his wife a few times but had to move and lost touch. However, when I was having a hard time coping with my life as a fugitive and confided in him, believing the knowledge of my status would put his career and young family in jeopardy unless he immediately called the RCMP to have me arrested, he revealed his total dependence on God. He told me he would pray about it and give me an answer the next day. The next day he told me that God told him it wasn’t time for me to turn myself in, that I had to first gather letters of recommendation. It was those letters, seventeen in all, that I believe set me free from any charges. And this was despite the Maryland judge whom my lawyer said was on the bench when I fled and now wanted to make an example of me.

I must give a special shout-out to (aka) Scott Smith, who was my friend for about a year while we shared a magical winter, living in a plastic covered A-frame, making music & writing. Sitting against its flimsy transparent walls, feeling the walls move back and forth, experiencing the silver glow on moonlit nights, and listening to the echoing of ice cracks that sounded like rifle shots played several octaves lower, those are experiences I shall never forget.

Mark & Beth Crosby, two of my closet friends from my eleven years as a fugitive, who were always there to help, especially when I dreamed the impossible dream of creating a week-long Nova Scotia Natural Health & Healing Conference in an abandoned farmhouse with no electricity or running water. I owe its success to both of you!

The Gestalt Therapy group in Vancouver, without whom my other impossible dream could never have happened, our establishment of the Pat Lake Commune in the virgin wilderness of British Columbia.

Watson Peck, a fellow organic farmer and health nut who was in his sixties at the time of our meeting, and invited me to attend a Bible Study, then challenged me to beat him in a short sprint.  I know he’s not alive now, but he changed my life forever.

Pastor Earl Waterman and his wife, Pat, who were the most directly responsible for my salvation, and who helped me weather the many twists and turns as I made the transition from hippy fugitive to law-abiding Christian.

Joe & Marie Umidi, who helped me get my first understanding of the awesome power that awaits those who live in Christian community. Unfortunately, they chose to break up our community and return to the traditional lifestyle and doctrines of Christianity. Their choice to reject the difficulty of living together in Christian community was mostly the result of their pastor’s influence. He had offered them help with school expenses and to make Joe the congregation’s assistant pastor if Joe abandoned the idea of living in Christian community. The uncertainty of a Spirit-led life, when combined with the leaven of Christianity’s hypocrisy, gradually transformed them into the moral equivalent of Biblical Pharisees. For God had worked many miracles in the short time we lived together, making it abundantly clear our endeavor would continue to be blessed mightily.

Henry & Kathy Perry, friends of my friends, Mark & Beth Crosby, who after their conversion renamed their Qua-Qua farm, the Garden of Jesus. They invited me to teach them and their growing Christian community what I knew as a fellow born-again believer, resulting in some amazing miracles.

I must also acknowledge all the many people of Bear River, Nova Scotia, who in spite of my long hair and hippy ways, loved me when I first lived there, alone in an abandoned farmhouse. They gave me (my name was Alexander McKinnon at the time) some of my most precious memories, like singing Christmas carols on a snowy Christmas eve as we traipsed the winding roads among the Victorian style homes of The Little Switzerland of Nova Scotia. Later, when I returned with my growing family, there were many volunteers who helped us fold, stamp, and address up to 27,000 catalogs for our Sower Seeds mail order business.

Sister Anastasia Moore, a born-again nun who realized late in life that she never knew Jesus until her spiritual rebirth. She helped us establish our St. John’s Newfoundland home as a refuge for local street kids, for those particular mentally ill cases her convent couldn’t take in, and as a temporary refuge for the homeless.

A special shout out to my sister, Norma, and her husband (at the time) Phillip Harding who, despite the difficulty of two families with young children sharing a small home, freely gave shelter and sustenance to our entire family of six for about a month.

To my mother, one of the kindest, most loving mothers any child could have, who put up her house as bail collateral and then forgave me when I fled. Fortunately, this ended up being another of the many miracles surrounding my life. As it turned out, the bail bondsman put down the wrong street address and my mother’s home was safe.

I must take this opportunity to acknowledge the women in my life. Each of them loved me in their own way, and contributed ideas and suggestions as I wrote and planned. All of them helped me learn how to love more deeply, but none of them could endure the hardships that inevitably come to entrepreneurs, especially Christian entrepreneurs, who must also stand up against the religious hypocrisy of Christianity. In the end, only Vonda’s love proved enduring.  We’ve been married for twelve and a half years now.

I must mention the West Virginia Migrant & Seasonal Farmworkers Association, especially Georgiana Hott and Karen Hoff the two women who believed in me. They put their jobs on the line when they made me the first seasonal farm worker ever sent to a technical college to study computers.

I am also thankful for the hospitality of Lance & Janet Barney, owners of Mary Jane’s Natural Foods, in St. John’s Newfoundland, who took us in and provided shelter for me and my pregnant wife, just after the Christians at an evangelical Bible study refused to do the same, telling us only, We’ll pray for you.

I feel it’s important to acknowledge the heroic deeds of a few doctors and health practitioners who greatly influenced me on my spiritual journey. Dr. Patey of St. John’s, Newfoundland, who made an exception and did a house call, after the home birth of my first-born. Zoe. Dr. Bruce Hayhoe of St. John, New Brunswick, a naturopathic doctor who attended and spoke at my