"The Commission" by Bob Blackman
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ISBN 1-58939-624-3. $12.95. Softcover. 242 Pages. If a group of Christians were the only settlers of an unoccupied planet, in a remote solar system, what would their society be like sixty, seventy, or eighty years later? Would their faith flourish through unity or falter through complacency? The Commission begins with all the nations of earth united into one nation, Terrapax, and the establishment of a state religion that unites all of earth's religions into a single faith. One group, the Messianists, refused to be absorbed, and spent five years in a reeducation camp before being exiled to a newly discovered planet. The Commission follows a single Messianist family from the founding of Terrapax, through the first eighty years on Eden, their new planet. Although it's classified as science fiction because it involves space travel to an unknown planet, it's a story of how the same faith that prospers in oppression, develops into heresy when seasoned with spiritual laxity. It's a story about how even in the worst unorthodoxy, God always preserves a remnant of true believers. It's a story of hope generated by one man who remains faithful to the true gospel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bob Blackman is a retired, 59-year-old Baptist pastor. He earned a BA in anthropology from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington and attended Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, California. He has served as the pastor of two churches, as an Associate pastor, and as a Christian School Administer. He currently lives in Reedsport on the Oregon coast with, Carrie, his wife of 35 years and attends Harbor Baptist church in Winchester Bay. Bob Blackman has previously written a dozen short stories and a handful of poems that have been published in various poetry and literary magazines, Sunday School publications, and newspapers. He has a personal website that contains all his previously published short stories as well as his testimony and family information. Login to review this product