12) Witnessing to Three People Before You Eat

You can also use this type of tactics. When you eat three meals, you must make the absolute determination to talk to at least one person before breakfast, at least one more before lunch, and at least one before dinner, thereby talking to three people in a day. Unless you accomplish your goal, do not eat your meal. This is the type of campaign we should carry out. If you make such resolution, then what do you think will happen? Why are you eating meals? Are you eating the slice of meat to become fat or for the sake of the providence?

Shouldn't you spend more time participating in the providence than in a bathroom? You should spend more time for it than for eating lunch, right? Isn't that so? We should begin such a campaign. What do you think will happen then? Before meals as you approach the door... Before eating breakfast, you should go for a walk somewhere and find someone to talk to until it is time for breakfast. Then, this is also very good for your health. Otherwise, do not eat your meal. You will become very serious. If you have failed to do it in the morning and in the afternoon, then you should skip two meals and be content with just eating dinner. If you follow this method, then would you or would you not be impelled to do witnessing? We should carry on this type of activity.

If you do this, then would God praise you or scold you? So I think Unification Church members often may not be able to eat breakfast. When you are witnessing, you may not have the chance. If you get really hungry while on your way to go out witnessing, then you should stop the car at a place where people have gathered, and leave for lunch only after talking to them for a while. This is the training that you need to go through. Even when you are riding in a car, you should stop the car to talk to people for even ten minutes, and after that prepare to have lunch. This is what you should do. Should we or should we not do this? [Do it] You should be the first ones to start that. First, the leaders must show the example. If the leaders fail to carry that out, then they are fake.

Accordingly, you should go for a walk at dawn. You should go and talk before breakfast in the morning. You should go for a walk. You do very well in eating meals with your spouses, right? What I am saying is that you should first set the heavenly condition of four-position foundation and then eat. When everyone sits down to have breakfast, if anyone has not yet done the condition, then you should drag them out and let them get going on it for thirty minutes, and let them start eating in the order they come back; this is the training that you should give them. Eat your meal after establishing this condition, and see how it is. You will see how great you feel. You will have no problem digesting anything that you eat. You will never have a stomachache. You will do it from now, right? [Yes] If you do not carry this out from the coming year, then you will not be able to fulfill your responsibility. After you go back this time, from the day that you go back, if you return in the evening then starting from that evening begin the campaign.

You should all make name cards in which you can put the addresses, and some pamphlets where you can put all the information about the Unification Church, and you should write that you offer the services of job agency, personal counseling, or something like that, and give it out to people that come by. You should also have your phone number on it. As you meet people on the street with these pamphlets, you could tell them, "You seem to have some grave concern; you should take a look at this and come to discuss your problems with me." There are plenty of methods. If there is someone who likes to make jokes, then you should tell that person that you can introduce him or her to someone who is very good at making other people laugh, and invite him or her to come over. You should at least say some simple things like that before you have your meal. The next time you come, you should come with those name cards made and show them to me, do you understand?

Now the Unification Church should initiate such a campaign throughout the nation. All of you should make name cards and give them to those you meet, asking them to come visit you. Then, they will come to visit you. You should have your name and title in the church written on them, and you should put on the back that you can give counseling and specify what you excel in. They are just like leaflets. Every Unification Church member should have this. You should all be engaged in this activity. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes]

We will establish a tradition with this. You do not have to do it for long stretches of time. You should be able to complete it in ten or fifteen minutes. You ask them to come for a visit if they are interested to find out more. You should give them out as you express your wish to meet them again. This is the campaign we should promote. Do you understand?

By doing this, when we consider how many people will be connected to us horizontally in a month-morning, afternoon, and evening-then three times three is nine; in all, it is 90 people. One person would have talked to 90 people. As you give out the cards, you can ask them also to give you a name card. Then, you should contact them through letters. Look. Some people can do fundraising campaigns just through correspondence and they can get 1, 2, or 5 percent. So how can we not get even one person through letters? Besides the letter, we have already talked to them personally 10, 20 or 30 minutes... Think about it.

As far as witnessing goes, as long as you can go out for ten minutes before each meal, if you do about thirty minutes a day, then you should have no problem getting one person a month. If you are really starving, then you can make the offering condition by even just calling on a person passing by you and saying as he stops to look over, "Mr., can I see you for a second? I wanted to see you because you are so handsome." (laughter, clapping) If you have called upon an older lady, then you can say, "I have stopped you because you look very much like my grandmother." Would people be offended by that? They will say, "Is that right?" If you grab her hands and ask her to come over saying that she looks like your grandmother, then she will.... This is how it is.

Are you still unable to witness to one person a month? It is a task that will save America, the world, and God, and I am speaking to you all day like this and pleading with you so earnestly, yet are you still unable to do it. Do you think it cannot be done? [It can be done.]

Now do you understand the method? You understand the method, right? [Yes] Go and try it. You should try and see. You have to put this into practice as soon as you go back, right? [Yes] If we can stir up this kind of spirit all over the nation how great would it be?

I believe that if we can do it like that, we will not have any problem in getting more than thirty thousand members. If we organize ourselves like this, then even if you are working in a company or workplace, you will have no problem in building that foundation. As you just open the door, you can see how crowded with people it is out there. The streets are filled with people regardless of night or day, so why can't you do it? If you have one person join, then you probably can eat even one hundred meals a day. (laughter) You should not say things that do not make sense. It does not work on me.

Even a hundred people a day... If it were me, I will meet even one hundred people. One hundred people. Do you think that is impossible? Please answer me. Is that easy or difficult? Is that impossible? You should do it.

In this way, the cellular organization... Carrying it out in this way you should think to yourself, "If I can make one person like me, then I can make a pair, then the two will repeat what I have done and soon I can make twelve people, so that during the 7 years in the company, it will not be a problem to reach 84 people. I can do this even when I am asleep." You should be thinking about this even when you are asleep.

Do you all know that we have to do the 7-year formula course? If you can witness to just one person a month, then since there are twelve months in a year, you can get 84 people in 7 years. The significance of 84 people is the sum of 12 apostles and 72 disciples of Jesus; the sum is 84 people. If Jesus had just been able to accomplish that, he would not have had to die on the cross and the Kingdom of Heaven on earth would have been established. Do you think that he would have died on the cross if he had the foundation of 84 people? So, if you want to create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, then you have to do better than Jesus. (89-307)