MO'S WORLDWIDE FAMILY LETTERS NOs.10,11 & 12!             DFO 312B        9/74

REPORTING!

         1. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR GOOD LETTERS & REPORTS. Most of you are reporting very faithfully, but we would like to hear from some of you a little more often. We know you're all very busy, but it is important that we hear from you regularly, & not only just your logs & formal reports, but some little personal word about how you feel & what you're thinking & planning & how you're doing and both your prayers and praises. Amen?--Thanks!
         2. PLEASE DON'T MAKE THEM TOO LONG, HOWEVER--just a note or little one-pager regularly is more quickly & easily read as well as written, & keeps us more currently up to date on things than a big sudden flood of material all at once after you just happen to remember that you haven't written us for quite awhile. It would be far better for you to set aside a regular hour once a week whenever most convenient during some quiet time to drop us even a LITTLE note more OFTEN than some of these big batches which cost a fortune to mail all in one package!
         3. IF YOU WANT AN IMMEDIATE READING AND QUICKER ANSWER, YOU'D BETTER TRY TO CUT'M DOWN A LITTLE, PLEASE!--Thanks! I don't know that it's really necessary for us to know ALL these little details of ALL of your problems or to be burdened with them too much, since most of them can be handled by you & the Lord & are probably already solved before we get the letter. But if it is something which is of such magnitude that you cannot possibly make a decision on it without knowing our opinion, by all means tell us all about it and we'll do our best.--GBY!
         4. NOW PLEASE DON'T GO TO THE OPPOSITE EXTREME & get involved in a huge programme & take a great deal of time & the effort of a lot of important personnel without telling us ANYTHING about what's involved or explaining what you're trying to do or doing or how it's coming.
         5. IT'S A GOOD THING WE GET REPORTS FROM ALL SIDES on some of these controversial issues, or we really WOULD be in the dark about some things which some of you are afraid to tell us because you didn't ask us about it in the first place! We realise that you are considering some of these projects & experimenting a little with some of them, but for you to go into a complete & important new field without fully explaining it to us & what the procedures & prospects are & without getting our opinion on it would be somewhat of an UNDER-REPORTING ON YOUR PART!
         6. AND DEARLY BELOVED, HOW ABOUT SOME OF YOU CONSULTING WITH OTHERS GREATLY CONCERNED & affected before you make any more changes in somebody ELSE'S Home? You're supposed to be working WITH each other, not AGAINST!
         7. UNDERMINING CONFIDENCE IN OTHERS' LEADERSHIP BEFORE THEIR OWN FOLLOWERS IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN in this outfit & almost the unpardonable sin, unless absolutely necessary in the most extreme of emergency situations where the leaders are totally out of line & their followers need to know it, as Paul did to Peter when he got off the beam doctrinally publicly concerning grace & works!--Gal.2:11-16.
         8. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CONSULT FIRST ON ANY MAJOR CHANGES OF PERSONNEL, RULES, PROGRAMMES & OTHERWISE before making any major decisions in matters of BUSINESS which could seriously affect OTHER areas or even the INTERNATIONAL WORK!

NOVICES!

         9. FEW NEW ONES WE HAVE KNOWN, WHEN SO HIGHLY EXALTED, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE TEMPTATION or resist the influence of the Enemy to be used to subvert in a time of weakness. This is why I've warned all of you officers to resist the temptation to fraternise too closely or intimately with the novices & even your own staff. "Familiarity breeds contempt" & a lust for power & influence, even unwittingly, & I have written you before a Letter of warning on this subject against too much & too intimate fraternisation, as you may recall!
         10. GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH YOU ALL ON THIS, FOR YOUR DISOBEDIENCE, FLAGRANT INSUBORDINATION & MUTINY, but just how I don't know. But if you can take this tongue-lashing & admit your faults, confess your wrong-doings & meekly & humbly apologise & ask for forgiveness, the Lord may give us the grace to forgive you for making such a mess out of things & stirring up so much trouble & causing everyone so much grief.
         11. "THE BOSS MAY NOT ALWAYS BE RIGHT, BUT HE STILL HAS TO BE THE BOSS!" Every job of any kind HAS to have a BOSS, or you have CHAOS!--And that's exactly what some of you have there right now, from all we hear from you: Absolute chaos! May God have mercy on you guilty ones for helping bring this about!
         12. WE'RE VERY SORRY FOR YOU ALL, BUT WE'RE MOST SORRY FOR GOD'S WORK, which is being delayed & perhaps even partly destroyed by your foolishness! But we're sorriest of all for the poor KIDS who may NEVER get the message because of this fighting & feuding amongst yourselves, for which you will have to answer both here & hereafter!
         13. FEW PEOPLE SEEM TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ANY OF THE THREE P'S WITHOUT BEING CORRUPTED BY THEM: Power, prosperity or popularity! I've seen them corrupt many a great man & woman of God, which brought about their downfall!--Even some of the greatest, sad to say!
         14. THIS SEEMS TO BE WHY GOD ALWAYS HAS TO BRING US PERSECUTION, POVERTY & PAIN, THE OTHER THREE P'S, to humble us & counteract the poisons of the first three! He seldom seems to be able to trust His Children with much of the FIRST THREE without giving them a lot of the OTHER THREE along with them, to counter-balance some of their bad side effects! So maybe that's what you're in for now, since you rejected God's offer of the other through your rebelliousness!
         15. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU ALL & TEACH YOU THROUGH ALL OF THIS THE LESSONS YOU NEED TO LEARN, but seem "never coming to a knowledge of!"--2Tim.3:7.--May God help us all, & we hope this is amongst the "All Things" which God will work out for good in some way! GBY for the good you HAVE done, & forgive you for the mistakes you have made! And may you somehow make amends & undo at least some of the damage & still accomplish at least part of the great work God has for you there, if you still can. I suggest you stop worrying about YOU & start worrying about OTHERS!

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