INDIGENOUS!--MWWFL 22             DFO 315C        10/74

         1. IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS BIG WORD IS, ACCORDING TO THE DICTIONARY "INDIGENOUS" IS AN ADJECTIVE DESCRIBING SOMETHING WHICH IS NATIVE, NATIVE-BORN or ORIGINATING &/or PRODUCED NATURALLY in a CERTAIN COUNTRY or soil.--In other words, it came straight from the GRASS ROOTS, in our case, you common people at the bottom of the pile!--PEOPLE POWER!--YOU at the BOTTOM!
         2. INDIGENUITY IS THE NOUN DESCRIBING THE QUALITY OR CONDITION OR STATE OF BEING INDIGENOUS, or that thing or person which possesses this quality could be said to be indigenous or possessing the ability of indigenuity: Able to be NATIVE, NATIVE-BORN or ORIGINATE & PRODUCE naturally in a CERTAIN COUNTRY, area or soil right at the GROUND LEVEL from the ground up--real PIONEERING!--Or really the NATIVE-BORN FRUIT originating & produced naturally in a certain country or area or community from YOUR pioneer sowing of the SEEDS of His WORDS!
         3. THE INDIGENOUS HOME, THEREFORE, IS WHAT WE USED TO CALL THE NATIVE CHURCH, composed of the natives or nationals of that particular community or country who have become disciples produced on their own NATIVE SOIL from the SEEDS of the Gospel of God's WORDS sown in their hands & hearts by the original pioneering missionaries, you, our beloved PIONEERS!--Amen?
         4. AT FIRST THE FARMER PLOWS & FURROWS THE LAND, breaking & opening it with loving hands & forceful plow, the instrument of his lovemaking, so he can insert the seed in receptive soil, the Body of His Bride, the Church!--The TRUE Church, the REAL Church, the genuine BELIEVERS, RECEIVERS, REPENTERS (Revolutionaries) & DOERS of His Words! These are they conceived by the SPURTS of the SPIRIT-filled SEEDS of His WORDS in the womb of the Body of His Bride to bear Him children!
         5. THESE TENDER YOUNG PLANTS, THESE NATIVE-BORN CHILDREN, YOUR NEW NATIVE NATIONAL DISCIPLES born & growing on their own NATIVE soil, inheriting its citizenship & speaking its language & knowing its customs & people & country well, are your NATIVE fruit produced naturally in their OWN country, your INDIGENOUS Church, a NATIVE plant in its NATURAL habitat, a NATIVE child in his NATURAL surroundings, HOME-GROWN produce on LOCAL soil!
         6. BUT THIS PLANT, THIS CHILD, THIS CHURCH OF TENDER PLANTS OR CHILDREN, MUST BE TENDERLY CARED FOR WITH MUCH LOVE & PAINSTAKING LABOUR, fed & protected, continually loved & watered & washed with the Word & fertilised with nourishment by the Farmer, its parent, until it is FULL GROWN, strong & hardy & able to REPRODUCE itself by producing SEED of its OWN. "The FRUIT TREE yielding fruit after his kind, whose SEED is in ITSELF." (See Gen.1:11)--SELF-PROPAGATING!
         7. BUT THIS NATIVE TREE, YOUR NEW HOME ON NEW SOIL, MUST NOT ONLY BE SELF-PROPAGATING or perpetuating by means of the same seed or the same kind of seed, DUPLICATE SEED, the same as that from which it came, IDENTICAL COPIES of the same words, but in order to survive & thrive & stand on its own without too much more tending from the Farmer, IT MUST BE SELF-SUPPORTING! It must be able to stand on its own two feet, its own ROOTS with a strong, sturdy TRUNK with FRUIT-bearing branches that can hold their own without being continually propped up by the Farmer!
         8. AFTER A FEW MONTHS THE STRONG, NEW, YOUNG TREE SHOULD BE ABLE TO STAND STRONG AGAINST ANY BLAST OF ANY STORM if ROOTED & GROUNDED firmly in the soil of GOD'S WORDS, WELL-WATERED & WASHED by His refreshing LATTER RAINS from above & UNDERGROUND STREAMS from below without too much further personal attention from the Farmer himself except an occasional NOURISHING DUNGING & PURGING & PRUNING of the fruitless branches that it may bear MORE fruit, & an occasional PROTECTIVE SPRAYING from otherwise damaging & devouring attacks of the ENEMIES!--Amen?
         9. THEREFORE, DURING THE FARMER'S EVER-MORE FREQUENT & PROLONGED ABSENCES, THE TREE MUST ALSO LEARN TO GROW UNDER THE DIRECTION & GUIDANCE OF GOD HIMSELF without the Farmer's assistance, for although "one soweth & another watereth, it is GOD that giveth the increase" (1Cor.3:6) & causes it to grow according to His Own direction & in the direction that He pleases & He knows is best in whatever way He chooses or the tree chooses under His guidance.
         10. IT MUST THEREFORE BE SELF-GOVERNING ACCORDING TO GOD'S GUIDANCE! Your new, young Home must learn to operate under its OWN leadership according to its OWN faith & by the ways & means that IT feels led are best for ITS particular habitat, soil & surroundings. It must learn to LET GO of the farmers & let GOD lead, & "FOR GOD'S SAKE, FOLLOW GOD!" under HIS personal guidance by HIS WORD alone!
         11. FINALLY, THE FRUIT OF THIS TREE MUST FEED THE FARMER & HIS FAMILY TOO, AS WELL AS PRODUCE FOOD FOR OTHERS & MORE SEED FOR THE PLANTING OF NEW TREES TO BEAR MORE FRUIT to feed more people to plant more trees to bear more fruit to feed more people to plant more trees etc.! Having been cared for BY the FARMER, if the tree in turn does not care for the Farmer HIMSELF, the Farmer's family would soon starve for lack of HIS SHARE of the fruit! If the Farmer's family did not share along with others from his bountiful harvest, he would soon have to leave the farm & desert it to its own devices & it would lose his protective care & cultivation!
         12. SO IF YOU WANT THE FARMER TO KEEP FARMING & CULTIVATING & PLANTING & FEEDING & WATERING & PROTECTING & GUIDING & GUARDING & PURGING & PRUNING that ye may bear MORE fruit that he may plant MORE trees with MORE seeds to feed both his OWN family & the WORLD, "The HUSBANDMAN that laboureth must be FIRST partaker of the fruits!" (2Tim.2:6) That's God's LAW: God & His warning worders, the PROPHETS, FIRST!--THEN He'll bless you yourselves with plenty THEREAFTER!--Amen?
         13. SO THE FARMER'S FOOD & NECESSITIES ARE HIS SHARE OF THE PRODUCE of the harvest which helps him to continue BEING the Farmer & HELPING you to produce the fruit! This completes the cycle of INDIGENOUS FARMING or the INDIGENOUS CHURCH: TOTAL INDIGENUITY!--A totally SELF-PROPAGATING, SELF-SUPPORTING & SELF-GOVERNING farm which also rewards the Farmer for his farming with its sustenance as they SHARE TOGETHER the blessings of God's increase with a WORD-HUNGRY WORLD! This is GOD'S OWN PLAN, in both His NATURAL & SPIRITUAL Kingdoms!--PTL? c
         14. ARE YOU A SELF-PROPAGATING HOME PRODUCING GOD'S GOOD FRUIT WHOSE SEED IS IN ITSELF, HIS WORD FOR THE REPRODUCING OF MORE SOULS FOR HIS KINGDOM? Do YOU have your own printshop or faithful printer rePRINTING these seeds to produce MORE souls? Are you SELF-SUPPORTING, feeding of your own labours & feeding the Farmer too, as well as others outside your farm with the bountiful harvest wherewith God is blessing you? Are you SELF-GOVERNING, bearing your own burdens of rulership in His Kingdom, growing strong & tall, able to carry your own branches & be as little care & trouble to your Farmer as possible? Are you REALLY now?--TRULY?
         15. AND ARE YOU REMEMBERING TO SHARE GOD'S GOOD INCREASE WITH THE FARMER & HIS HANDS WHO HELPED RAISE YOU? Are YOU truly INDIGENOUS--SELF-PROPAGATING, SELF-SUPPORTING & SELF-GOVERNING--as well as remembering to reward your Husbandman as the FIRST partaker of YOUR fruits for HIS labours? If you ARE, thank you, & God bless you! If NOT, HERE'S HOW you CAN be!
         16. SELF-PROPAGATING: PRODUCE YOUR OWN PROPAGANDA! TAKE THE SEEDS OF HIS WORDS THAT I SEND TO PLANT in YOUR hearts & conceive & bring forth FRUIT that will help YOU REPRODUCE THESE SEEDS on your OWN printing presses--or have the SYSTEM print it FOR you if you can while YOU furnish them the SEEDS for reproduction, for they have super-duper mammoth-mechanical incubators & hatcheries that can reproduce them by the MILLIONS! They ALREADY know how & have the EQUIPMENT to do it with & the TIME & the LABOURERS to do it, while YOU'RE the ONLY ones in the World who really know how to GET OUT & PLOW & PLOD & PLANT & WATER to make it GROW!
         17. OUR NATIONAL OFFICES & WS WILL THEN BE ONLY THE FARMERS FURNISHING YOU FARM HANDS THE SEED & KNOW-HOW to PLANT & REAP YOURSELVES & merely RETURN to the Farmer HIS SHARE of the harvest for his trouble in TRAINING you, SUPERVISING you, assigning your fields, FURNISHING the SEED corn, ANSWERING your questions or HELPING with your problems, exchanging INFORMATION & good harvest reports, issuing ADVICE, telling you HOW to make or find your TOOLS & LABOURERS, how to SOW, TEND & REAP & finally SHARE your CROP with OTHERS & the FARMER himself!--Amen?--This is what's called "SHARE-CROPPING"!--Are you willing to be a SHARE-CROPPER for JESUS?--PTL!
         18. GOD'S ORIGINAL STANDARD OF 10% of your total take for the FARMER & his FAMILY, the SHEPHERD & the STAFF, the HIGH PRIEST & LEVITES of the temple HEADQUARTERS who process your sacrifices & offerings for the Lord & issue you His instructions would be a good START for those who CAN, the TITHERS, plus additional OFFERINGS from those whom God has blessed abundantly ABOVE their OWN needs to help the POOR & make up for the LACK of those who CANNOT. This would help the INTERNATIONAL OFFICE of the FARMER to support his OWN Family, the SHEPHERD to support his own STAFF, the TEMPLE FELLOW-LABOURERS who are helping them with the SEED, TOOLS, ADVICE, LANDS, LABOURERS, NEWS & mobile COMMUNICATIONS with home-base at the ranch-house!--Amen?
         19. THIS WOULD ALSO FREE THE FARMER FROM HAVING TO DO SO MUCH OF HIS OWN WORK of plowing, planting, tending & reaping for the mere support of his OWN Family LOCALLY so that they can give YOU more of their time, tools, labourers, counsel & seed for YOU & YOUR fields instead of having to spend so much time, trouble, workers, housing, equipment, labour & expense on the RANCH-HOUSE ALONE & much of the Family there who could be freed to HELP YOU in YOUR FIELDS!
         20. SELF-SUPPORT & SELF-GOVERNMENT WILL AUTOMATICALLY FOLLOW AS GOD BLESSES your OWN crops for your sacrifices & gives you greater INDEPENDENCE & FREEDOM from so much CENTRALISED CONTROL, FREEING FARMER & FAMILY to help YOU more personally in YOUR field with what you need MOST: More SEED, NEWS, COUNSEL, TOOLS, LABOURERS & FINANCES to PIONEER NEW FIELDS! Be INDIGENOUS!--Amen? PTL!--You CAN!

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