You center leaders have a good education, good knowledge and other worldly knowledge and you have heart. City leader, center leader, state leader, national leader - all should unite, and the family members should unite with those with a single mind because they all represent Father's position. Even if leaders make mistakes, no one should pass judgment.

In the future, headquarters will organize from the lowest unit, the church center, through seven levels. The national leader is the middle point, going down to province, city and town, then going up to True Parents and God. That is why I invited all church leaders to this meeting.

You are all working as Unification Church leaders because you have been following Father, the bridge to God's fortune. That is why members respect you. First of all, you have to maintain the vertical relationship always. You have the position to maintain the vertical and horizontal relationship. Vertically you represent the headquarters, and horizontally you represent parents' position. The parents' heart must be for children who do not come home; without hesitation you will go 1,000 miles searching for them. If parents show a sacrificial example and teach tradition, the children will go the correct way. First show a good example. This is the way how to witness.

With a vertical relationship there is no multiplication. But if you unite with a same-level leader, there is multiplication. This is the Principle of Creation.

Why do we witness? For multiplication. Multiplication does not happen on the vertical level; horizontal good give and take multiplies. That is why church leaders should relate with church members horizontally. Progress will follow. If everybody determines to be loyal, there is lot of multiplication.

Time does not move faster or slower, but people's minds grow or diminish. Even members working in small towns hearing news from headquarters receive the news as their own. The senses of the nervous system go through the whole body. Likewise the church members should respond to the headquarters' direction. Then there is life. That is why members look forward to headquarters' messages. But if you, through this nervous system, hear the news horizontally, you can feel it only momentarily. Concerning your skeletal system, it is ordered vertically and horizontally. When you visit headquarters, what kind of heart do you have? Let us remember. How much you overcome with richer feeling will determine the quality of your personality.

We have to change our attitude of how we look at headquarters, the province, the city and other individuals. There will be no progress if you do not change. New creative power cannot occur. This is the Principle of Creation.

5.) The Role of the Family Member

The purpose of the Unification Church is to establish the Kingdom of Heaven. How can we achieve the Kingdom of Heaven? The key is not for your own benefit but to sacrifice for others and for the world. In other words, (3) you have to long for that way. (1) Lots of people are struggling in the Fallen realm. (2) People give up on top of the Fallen realm and fall. While you strive up to (3) you either have to become a subject or you are following the subject. So what kind of subject should you follow? Follow the person who represents God.

How long should you follow? Until the end of the world. How should you follow? Do not take this with a light attitude but willingly offer your tears, sweat and blood. The greater the difficulty you encounter, the bigger the scope, from the individual, family to the whole world. When the whole world has to be mobilized. This will be the end of the Fallen world.

What is the important thing in our church? Try to become a good person who is remembered by a leader. Members who complain are fakes. ? Before you judge someone, pray three times for that person. If you don't do that condition, you are a fake.

Even if some men and women are young, God can work through them. If you are thirsty, you will still drink from a branch stream if you can't drink from the main stream. Think that the children are like your own children or young kings. Also, have the attitude of helping and protecting them. That kind of member has ownership. If you are not doing that, you are a fake.

That is why you have to become a likable person to the leader, regardless of age. You have to become a person who can talk openly. You have to move the leader's heart. If you impact your leader's heart, the next level is to move Father's heart. This is the ordered way. If you do not follow this order, you are mistaken. You will receive Satan's accusation.

In the Unification Church view, what does it mean to be a successful person? Is it because he is a good writer or good Divine Principle lecturer? What is it? We have to live forever in people's hearts. How can you live in people's hearts? Centered on God's love you must move Father's heart forever. Don't you think so? [Yes.] Even at home, totally think about Father. This kind of family member who can dominate Father's heart can dominate the world. So how can you dominate Father's heart? According to the realm of the Principle, what one receives one ought to give. Father will give a lot more.

What can you do if there is not a lot of time to witness, obey and follow? To obey and follow is good, but not enough. What do you have to do? Do you want Father to teach you? [Yes.] When you go to a certain town, you have to completely unite with the church leader in that town. In that town, if you are the only man of virtue, you will realize your value. You should earn the provincial leader's heart and then the national leader's heart. Do you understand. [Yes.] What do you have to do for that? Follow Father's direction. Go to the bottom level and take all responsibility.

There is a big and stately tree, the leaves are dried out and the root is dead. What do you think about this tree? It externally looks good, but there is no hope for it. Even a small tree, if it is alive, it is more valuable. This tree deserves appreciation because it is well nourished from the root to the trunk. Thus this tree has endless potential to grow. There are main branches and little branches. The little branches have more potential to grow.

In our church, there are different kinds of leadership. If the branch leadership is alive, there are a lot of little branches growing off of it. Do you understand? [Yes.] If you want to win your leader's heart, you should understand your leader's strong and weak points and then serve him. That is how you win the leader's heart and receive love from him. In other words, the key is that you can earn the authorization of the leader only through sacrifice and service, even if you give a hundred times, a thousand times, and even if you are afflicted, but are still happy to give. This kind of person can earn anybody's love. You can receive love and you can love anybody.

You will be promoted in your area. You will receive recognition in that area. Sports tournaments use the same principle. Step by step with the same principle you can finally become a national leader. Isn't it so? Step by step you progress in uniting and winning the hearts of the center leader, the city leader and the provincial leader. Then where will you go finally? Finally you win the national leader's heart and unite with his work, and when the time comes, the national leader will appoint you to be the national leader. Do you understand? This kind of person can occupy the top position.

Who has ever earned God's heart? People who failed didn't completely understand God's heart--Adam, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and John the Baptist, through Jesus. We need to completely restore all the failures of God's heart and offer it to God. All church leaders, or denominational leaders didn't understand God's heart completely. Father in the Unification Church is the one who has been working for that.

That is why even though you receive persecution and opposition from the world, you cannot be destroyed. So first you need faith and confidence. While of learning lessons from other people's work, we should have faith centering on God's love. That way we can become a successful person.

Do you think it is valuable to follow Father? [Yes.] Then should you follow Father's direction of not? [Yes, we should follow.] In a tree, leaves get nourishment from the root, not from the trunk. No nourishment comes from the branch, but from the root; but because the root is distant from the leaves, it comes through the trunk and branches. That is why you can become a good fruit through the national leader, provincial leader, city leader and center leader.

What part of the tree is growing? The ends-- and it expands everywhere. The dead branches, however, will be cut off. Water is absolutely necessary for the root. Likewise man needs heaven and earth. (Gen. 1:28) "Be fruitful, multiply and have dominion." Who is supposed to have dominion? This does not mean that God is dominating but that the people who have God's love completely and are responsible should dominate the universe. That is the Principle. Do you understand? [Yes.]

First of all you should lay a good foundation of merit, and then you can receive love from our church and from Father. The provincial leader is a representative of Father. That is why you are receiving love and trust from the provincial leader; it is also the foundation to receive love from Father. This is a promise that you will receive Father's love.

Family members go to God through True Parents. If you belong to the province, then through the provincial leader's heart, the national leader's heart and the True Parents' heart, you can stand in front of God. Of course, Father's heart always wants to take you to heaven, but you individually have to make good conditions for God. Public and private distinctions are clear to God.