4) The Purpose of the Church

What is the purpose of the church? It exists to save the nation. However, Christians do not know this. They think that its purpose is only to guide people to go to Heaven, which is a self-centered idea. As a result, they created so individualistic a nation as America.

Therefore, the Unification Church attempts to pioneer building a true world. The purpose of witnessing to people is not to have the witnessed people benefit the Unification Church. It is to benefit the nation. Moreover, ours should not become a religion that remains only within the boundary of the nation. Judaism declined because it lost its leading position in saving its nation, Israel. The policy of the Unification Church is to serve the nation and the world. (34-338)

The Garden of Eden is within the realm of protection. First, it is a place with life without death; second, a place of the realm of God's protection; third, a place to receive love from God. (51-193)

As pioneers in founding such a nation, who are the generals on the frontline? They are the leaders of the Unification Church.

Then, what foundation is required to build such a nation? No one or nothing other than the church. What else can it be? What do you have? You have nothing but the church. Right? [Yes.] Your personal possessions are to be absorbed into the nation. In order for a people to lay a foundation... In order to build a nation, sovereignty, land, and people are needed. Then, what is the foundation for the land of the Kingdom of Heaven? It is what the church has. Right?

Then, who are the people of the Kingdom of Heaven? They are the church members. Then, who has the sovereignty? It is you. You are in the position of representing the chiefs of a village, a city, a county, and a state. Ladies and gentlemen, did you become such a subject? You should be the first person who will run to the satanic world if bombs are brought into that world. Do you understand? Do you want to do it? If you have some money, you should use if for the expansion of the church and that money should be used in expanding the territory of the nation and gathering the people. Church leaders are in place of the sovereign of that nation. They should be in place of their own village chiefs and parents. That is the tradition that you should leave behind.

What should we do in the future? In the future, the time of the church will pass. What humanity desires is not the church. The church is needed during the process of restoration in the realm of the Fall, but once a new era arrives, the era of the church will pass.

For this reason, what the Unification Church is doing now is not church activities. Nor is Father doing church activities. Under the name of the church, we are adjusting society and reforming society, in order to expand a pure society. That is the mission of pioneers for the work that is now being done by the people who are living for the nation or the world. This is the path that you should walk.