New Church Life May/Jun 2014 | Page 75

Life Lines six words for june 19th “The Lord God Jesus Christ reigns.” In these six words, with which the New Church began in the spiritual world on June 19th, 1770, the teaching of the whole New Testament is condensed into one short sentence – which then became the seed from which that whole crystalline system of doctrine represented by the New Jerusalem grew. In that one simple shining sentence we have the Alpha and the Omega of all truth, the beginning and the end of everything we need to know. “THE LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST REIGNS!” (WEO) religion is the answer We often despair over the decline of our culture and the depths to which the younger generation is taking it. Witness the rites of debauchery reenacted in college spring breaks each year, from Flor