2) Progress of the Church Depends Upon the Minister

When you are witnessing in the frontier, first you must become one with the internal aspects of the people of that village. Internal oneness means unity of heart. Then, you must lay the basis for the unity of life-style and ideology.

You must realize the necessity of uniting mind and body centering on God in the actual stage of action. At the moment when God and mind become one, the body must be made to submit. Only in such a way we can link the three points of formation, growth, and completion. Not only is this true on the individual level, but also the people must be led in this way.

You should understand the Will of God toward this era, and should not think that your responsibility does not extend beyond the village that you are in charge of, but realize that your responsibility extends to a level higher than that. If you are in charge of a county, then you should extend yourself toward the state, and if you are in charge of a state then you should extend yourself toward the nation. You must extend yourself to one level higher. The battlefield is on the individual level, but your mind and faith must reach higher centering on the nation. You must take up this attitude if you are to be in preparation for the future course of Heaven. You can establish relative conditions on the foundation that God has prepared.

For this reason, whether or not you make progress depends entirely upon you. When you are involved in a fight on the individual level, you must think about the family, when in a fight on the individual level think about the clan, and when in a fight on the level of the clan then think about the people. Similarly, your thinking must expand toward the national and global fight. A person who places the fight in the front and prepares for the battlefield at the next level will never tire. We must cultivate this type of mentality. (13-302)

The reason why the Unification Church could not advance until now is also the same. Why is the church not able to develop? It is because people in charge of each church are not able to play the leadership role in the environment of violent collisions. They were not able to implant in the minds of followers the mindset needed to digest the environment and progress toward the future. They were not able to clearly convey the secret that by visiting those people the ideal will be realized in Korea, and the foundation of victory will come to the church through God's providence. This is due to lack of mature character. (1986.5.6.)

If you are to complain despite your position as a pioneering missionary, then there will be no end to your complaints. If you are to be dissatisfied, there will be no end to your dissatisfaction. If you are to believe half and doubt half the providence, then there is no end to that. If you are to rebel, there will be no end. Then, if you are not to complain, doubt, or rebel, you must believe absolutely and follow absolutely. This is the way that you can continue to do much work for God.

Going this path will bring revival and multiplication; this is the Principle's point of view. I believe that it is when one can live for the sake of greater things under difficult circumstances that one can do a lot for God. (44-13)

What is the cause of a church's progress? Moreover, what is the fundamental standard for laying the foundation on earth during the course of God's providence ? If that depended on the church leader, then what should he do? He must go through the sacrificial course. If you have object-partners who have become one with you, and they are willing to toil and sacrifice on your behalf, then you can make offering through them. (47-294)