TOUCHED HEARTS  FELLOWSHIP

 President Irving Fisher

Mission Statement 

Touched Hearts is a fellowship of sincere truth-seekers dedicated to the spiritual upliftment of one another through the shared exploration of the Urantia Book. Rooted in love, unity, and divine purpose, we gather to deepen our understanding of cosmic truths, foster personal growth, and illuminate the revelations of the Urantia teachings in our daily lives. Our mission is to cultivate hearts touched by the spirit of truth and to encourage each other in our journey toward God-consciousness.

Goals of our fellowship 

1. To Cultivate Living Faith and Divine Communion:
Foster a sacred space where each member is encouraged to deepen their personal relationship with our Universal Father through reflective study, prayerful meditation, and spiritual stillness. By nurturing communion with the indwelling Thought Adjuster, we aspire to grow in God-consciousness and to become more attuned to divine guidance in our daily lives

2. To Explore and Illuminate the Revelations of the Urantia Book:
Engage deeply with the spiritual teachings, cosmic truths, and epochal revelations of the Urantia Book, seeking not only intellectual understanding but spiritual insight. We gather not merely to study, but to live these teachings—to allow their divine wisdom to transform our hearts and guide our soul’s ascent.

3. To Embody the Spirit of Jesus and the Brotherhood of Man:
Strive to reflect the life and teachings of Jesus—Michael of Nebadon—as the living model of sonship with God and fellowship with all humanity. In his spirit, we seek to love unselfishly, serve generously, and grow in moral courage and spiritual maturity. We affirm that we are all sons and daughters of the same heavenly Father, and thus eternal brothers and sisters in the universal family of God.

4. To Foster Soul Growth Through Shared Revelation:
Recognize that divine truth often emerges in community. Through collective study, personal testimonies, and spirit-led dialogue, we help each other grow in spiritual insight. Our fellowship is a place where the Spirit of Truth can activate fresh revelations in the soul, stimulating new understandings and inner transformation.

5. To Support Each Other on the Journey to Paradise:
Acknowledge that each soul’s path is sacred and unique. We walk together in spiritual friendship, encouraging perseverance, faith, and joy as we travel the eternal path from time to eternity—from the material worlds to the presence of the Universal Father on Paradise.

6. To Radiate Light and Truth Into the World:
Let our fellowship be a wellspring of spiritual light that inspires each member to go forth and share love, truth, beauty, and goodness with the world. In our homes, communities, and online spaces, we seek to uplift others—not by preaching, but by living the truths we’ve come to know in quiet strength, compassion, and grace.

7. To Serve as Faithful Stewards of Epochal Revelation:
Recognize the sacred responsibility of engaging with an epochal revelation. With reverence and humility, we dedicate ourselves to preserving the integrity of the Urantia Book’s teachings, sharing them with discernment, and always seeking the leading of the Spirit in all things.

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Organized religion has proved to be conservatively tardy. The prophets have usually led the people in religious development; the theologians have usually held them back. Religion, being a matter of inner or personal experience, can never develop very far in advance of the intellectual evolution of the races.

  ^144:8.4 "Verily, verily, I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is but small in the kingdom of heaven is greater because he has been born of the spirit and knows that he has become a son of God."

 About Prophecy

Isaiah tells us that God’s ways are not man’s ways. God’s words, the words of true prophecy, are also not like man's words.  God’s words start as small seedlings and over time they grow, give off branches, form buds, and finally, burst into bloom.  Just so, the word "Israel" starts out as the tiny seed of one man named Abraham, but through the ages, the word "Israel" grows, changes, and finally bursts forth into the brotherhood of all mankind.  

Words of prophecy often have past, present, and future connotations. Each word demands tremendous respect and study of all the contexts of its usage.  Reverence for the source of prophecy is the key to its study, for it is God who must lead our minds into the understanding of what He himself has inspired?  

Without the indwelling spirit there would be no prophecy and no interpretation of prophecy.  But reason and the scientific method are also critical for the elimination of error, and for the building of a strong foundation from whence inspired intuition may leap safely.  

Therefore, both reason and faith are necessary for the complete appreciation of prophecy, just as they are for the full appreciation of all other phenomena.

  ^99:5.11 What a mistake for Christians to make when, in presenting Christ as the supreme ideal of spiritual leadership, they dare to require God-conscious men and women to reject the historic leadership of the God-knowing men who have contributed to their particular national or racial illumination during past ages.

  ^5:2.3 The divine presence cannot, however, be discovered anywhere in nature or even in the lives of God-knowing mortals so fully and so certainly as in your attempted communion with the indwelling Mystery Monitor, the Paradise Thought Adjuster. What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind!

^26:11.5 The mortal creature must find God. The Creator Son never stops until he finds man -- the lowest will creature. Beyond doubt, the Creator Sons and their mortal children are preparing for some future and unknown universe service. Both traverse the gamut of the experiential universe and so are educated and trained for their eternal mission. Throughout the universes there is occurring this unique blending of the human and the divine, the commingling of creature and Creator. Unthinking mortals have referred to the manifestation of divine mercy and tenderness, especially towards the weak and in behalf of the needy, as indicative of an anthropomorphic God. What a mistake! Rather should such manifestations of mercy and forbearance by human beings be taken as evidence that mortal man is indwelt by the spirit of the living God; that the creature is, after all, divinity motivated.