THE COLONY REVOLUTION!            DFO 329B                  3/75

LOCAL HOME STRUCTURE & POWER!

         1. WE ARE NOW GOING TO SHIFT YOU INTO AN EVEN HIGHER GEAR OF A TOTALLY NEW STRUCTURING IN THE TRANSMISSION OF YOUR POWER! From now on, every local Home shall immediately form a Home Council of its total membership of Lead-ership & LT's & staff, except Babes, chaired by the Home Shepherd, who shall call an election to either confirm its PRESENT leadership or select a NEW Shepherd from its own ranks by the democratic process of open nomination & secret ballot, conducted & counted by a committee of three, NOT including the present Home Shepherd nor his wife, & the voting should continue until one of the nominated candidates has won at least a MAJORITY.
         2. A HOME SHALL BE DEFINED AS A GROUP OF TWO OR MORE DISCIPLES EITHER LIVING TOGETHER OR AT LEAST MEETING TOGETHER REGULARLY NO LESS THAN ONCE A WEEK. Live-in Homes should have DAILY HOME MEETINGS &/or devotions together & at least WEEKLY BUSINESS MEETINGS to decide Home business. A Home Shepherd should be elected for a period of not less than three to six months to give him time to prove his capability, unless he thoroughly disqualifies himself, in which event a new election must be held to select a new leader.

LOCAL HOME QUOTAS!

         3. THE HOME COUNCIL SHALL MAKE THESE DECISIONS & ESTABLISH THE RULES OF THE HOME, including QUOTAS, by at least a majority vote on each issue. NO quotas shall be set for either litnessing or discipling which shall NOT include both the HOME SHEPHERD & his SHEPHERDESS! NO Home Shepherd should expect more of his SHEEP than he does of HIMSELF!
         4. TOTAL QUOTAS SHALL BE SET NO HIGHER THAN TO SUFFICIENTLY MEET THE TOTAL NEEDS OF THE HOME & its various donations to our Worldwide Work, & there shall be no exception to these quotas except in cases of illness, motherhood responsibilities, the handicapped or other emergencies.
         5. NO QUOTAS SHALL BE SET FOR ANY HOME BY ANY HIGHER AUTHORITY THAN THE LOCAL HOME COUNCIL of that particular Home itself. No major decisions or purchases, etc. shall be made regarding housing, food, expenses, literature, funds, division, quotas, etc. without at least a majority consent of the local Home Council.

ENFORCEMENT BY EXCOMMUNICATION!

         6. EVEN THESE RULES WHICH WE'RE SUGGESTING SHALL NOT BECOME EFFECTIVE & VALID WITHOUT AT LEAST A MAJORITY CONSENT OF EACH LOCAL HOME COUNCIL. From now on we must have INDIGENOUS, HOME-GROWN LOCAL government at the LOCAL level & NO dictatorship by higher authorities without the consent of those governed!
         7. OF COURSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY OF THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT TO, & all of this is subject to your own voluntary agreement & consent. But I think you SHOULD because it will be GOOD for you & the Lord's Work & our ministry of evangelising the World & making disciples of ALL nations.--Mat.28:19.
         8. I CANNOT FORCE YOU TO DO IT, BUT I HOLD A FEW TRUMP CARDS & THOSE ARE THE LORD'S LETTERS, which we shall WITHHOLD from those who refuse to cooperate, & from which we shall EXCOMMUNICATE you if you don't obey & forsake all to follow Jesus "into all the World to every creature" to become "fishers of men" "making disciples of all nations" according to Christ's Own commandments!--Mt.4:19; 28:19.
         9. SO ALTHOUGH THE CHOICE IS YOURS, IF YOU MAKE THE WRONG CHOICE & DO NOT OBEY GOD'S WORD, YOU WILL BE EXCOMMUNICATED from the fellowship & the inspiration of His LETTERS! So we still hold the fatherly whip-hand of the authority of God's WORDS in the LETTERS & the right to CHASTISE you with them & even EXCOMMUNICATE you from our Family fellowship by withholding them from you if you do not obey the Lord's Will!

HOW TO SPLIT A HOME!

         10. THE FIRST THING WE SUGGEST TO YOU LOCAL COUNCILS OF HOMES OF TWELVE OR MORE MEMBERS IS THAT YOU SPLIT YOUR HOME into two or three Homes as soon as possible & send those on the road who want to go to pioneer new fields! If your present Home Shepherd is reluctant to so split your Home, we suggest you reconsider your present leadership, & that if he persists in continuing to disobey these Letters by not splitting your Home, we suggest you may have to elect a new Shepherd from amongst your present Council members who is willing to obey the Lord's Letters!
         11. OR HALF OF YOU COULD SIMPLY DECIDE TO SPLIT YOURSELVES & PACK UP & LEAVE & go it on your own to form a new Home with or without his consent or the consent of the other half! The Apostle Paul split nearly every synagogue of OLD bottles he walked into with his new radical doctrine, & he usually walked off with half the congregation of NEW bottles who were willing to follow him in the NEW WAY of following JESUS!--So why not YOU?
         12. I'M GETTING SICK & TIRED OF THESE OLD-BOTTLE CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE SUCH A DRAG that they're holding back the wheels of our progress by not wanting to MOVE ON! Or maybe you ARE the Home Shepherd & you DO want to go, along with some others, but the REST of your flock are a bunch of sticks-in-the-mud who don't want to budge out of their Blob!
         13. SO WHY NOT PICK UP & TAKE OFF WITH THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO GO with you & leave the rest behind to elect themselves a new Shepherd from amongst the old bottles who don't WANT to move! That's fair enough, isn't it?
         14. OR IF YOUR PRESENT SHEPHERD IS SO MONEY-MINDED THAT HE DOESN'T WANNA LOWER YOUR LIT QUOTAS TO GIVE YOU ENOUGH TIME TO WIN SOME NEW DISCIPLES, then get your Council together & lower them YOURSELVES, WITH or WITHOUT his consent, by a MAJORITY VOTE!--And if he doesn't like it he can either lump it or get the hell out of there & form an old-bottle Home of his own of nothing but money-makers who aren't interested in winning new disciples or READING the Letters anyhow, but only like to SELL'M so they can live comfortably & be little SLAVE-DRIVERS of their poor little overworked sheep! We'll still let'm have GP Letters to SELL, which is all they want anyhow & which will at least help get the Lord's Words out to the general PUBLIC!

QUOTAS & NEW DISCIPLES!

         15. NOBODY HAS A RIGHT TO SET QUOTAS FOR YOU BUT YOU YOURSELVES!--And you do this in your own LOCAL Home Council, according to your own needs & the various needed donations for us in the international Ministry. Neither does anyone have a right to vote for such a quota who's not willing to get out & hoof it for the same quota himself!--And with a nice small new Home now with so much less to worry about, nobody has any excuse for not being able to make a reasonable quota of both LIT & DISCIPLES, including the HOME SHEPHERD HIMSELF!
         16. SINCE IT TAKES TIME TO WIN A NEW DISCIPLE, WE SUGGEST YOU GIVE EACH MEMBER WHO WINS ONE NEW DISCIPLE CREDIT for one full day's lit quota for each new disciple so he'll have time to win them & not always be pushing the lit so hard he never has time to talk to anybody, not even the poor little hungry sheep who are really interested & would like to know more & maybe join!
         17. OR IF YOU STILL WANT TO MAKE YOUR QUOTA & STILL WANT TO WIN NEW DISCIPLES AT THE SAME TIME, why don't you do like some wise guys we know who are getting these hungry new bottles to help them distribute the lit while they talk'm into joining! Some of you guys are really smooth operators, God bless you!--Why not?
HELP FOR PIONEERS!

         18. ON THE SUBJECT OF NEW PIONEER TEAMS, don't you think you Mother Homes ought to furnish them with a little help to get'm started, such as possibly transportation to their new field, their first month's rent & enough free lit to make their living for the first month or so?--Amen?
         19. GOD BLESS THE MOTHER HOMES! Maybe you'd better start a PIONEER FUND TODAY so you'll be able to finance that pioneer team TOMORROW. Also they may need a little extra loan of a little coin for the initial deposits on things like utilities for their new Home. These should be outright gifts if the Mother Home can afford to do so. If not, the Mother Home may have to consider them as loans to be paid back when the new Home is able.

NEW DISCIPLES!

         20. ON DISCIPLING, YOU MAY FIND SOME BETTER AT WINNING DISCIPLES WHILE OTHERS ARE BETTER AT LITNESSING, so you may have to divide the responsibilities & give each credit accordingly on their quotas. But we're told it's usually the TOP SHINERS anyway who bring home the DISCIPLES! But we're also told that when they DO, a lot of Homes don't even want to ACCEPT them! Well, we hope these new rules are going to change all that. (See "No More Sudden Disciples!", No. 2385)
         21. EACH HOME WILL HAVE TO SET ITS OWN RULES REGARDING THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A NEW DISCIPLE & his acceptance in the Home, & this should be a matter discussed & agreed upon by the entire Home Council. These HOME COUNCIL business meetings, by the way, should be held at least ONCE A WEEK with all participating.

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