THE ECONOMY REVOLUTION!                   DO 330A                   3/75

GOD'S ECONOMY--HOW IT WORKS!

         1. ONE OF THE GREATEST PROBLEMS OF WORLDLY GOVERNMENTS HAS BEEN TOP-HEAVY BUREAUCRACY: Too much government at the TOP & not enough at the BOTTOM, too much expenditure by the FEW & not enough sharing with the MANY. If our form of worldwide government is to be God's Own model forecasting the future, then we must set an example to the World by practicing what we preach: "FROM each according to his ABILITY, UNTO each according to his NEED."
         2. This is God's basic financial principle of God's economic system & we have been practicing it for a long time on the local Home level. Our basic needs are MANPOWER & MATERIALS: Personnel & the things they need to do the job.
         3. By cooperating & living together in small local Homes we have economised greatly. We save by sharing our basic necessities such as housing, food, clothing, transportation, literature, manpower etc., & these necessities are shared by LARGER FAMILY units rather than in selfish INDIVIDUAL living.
         4. EVEN AS MASS PRODUCTION LOWERS COSTS, SO COOPERATIVE HOME LIVING LOWERS EXPENSES. It also greatly increases fellowship, strength, efficiency & the general happiness & well being of the participants & their accomplishments. "One can chase a thousand, but TWO can put TEN thousand to flight!"--Deut.32:30. In UNITY there is STRENGTH!--Amen!
         5. WE HAVE PROVEN THAT COMMUNAL LIVING ON THE LOCAL LEVEL CAN BE DONE, & with us this has been eminently successful under the blessing of God in being one of the most powerful contributing factors to our worldwide success!

CHAIN OF COOPERATION--ITS PURPOSE!

         6. NOW WE ARE GOING TO INSIST ON THE APPLICATION OF THESE ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES ON A WORLDWIDE SCALE! We have already insisted on a greater sharing of the LITERATURE & the LEADERSHIP & the making of DISCIPLES by the breaking up of the too-large over-sized big Blobs into smaller, more intimate, efficient & economical family-size Homes in more locations throughout the World to preach the Gospel to every creature.
         7. WE ARE REORGANISING OUR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE STRUCTURE in such a way as to force more RESPONSIBILITY downward toward the lower levels & more LEADERSHIP UPWARD toward the higher levels of our interlocking, close-knit Chain-of-Cooperation throughout the World.
         8. WE ARE SPREADING OUT MORE OF THE BURDEN ON MORE SHOULDERS AT THE MORE LOCAL LEVEL as we endeavour to eliminate top-heavy bureaucratic dictatorship by the FEW from the top.
OUR MAIN GOAL: THE SHARING OF OURSELVES & OUR LIVES!

         9. BUT, UNLIKE THE COMMUNISTS, WE DO NOT CONSIDER THE SHARING OF OUR MATERIAL THINGS OUR PRIMARY GOAL, as MATERIALISM with us is only a MEANS to an end. Our ultimate goal is the sharing of OURSELVES, the PERSONNEL & LEADERSHIP in a loving FELLOWSHIP of Man created by GOD "wherein dwelleth RIGHTEOUSNESS" & HAPPINESS FOREVER!--2Pet.3:13.
         10. SO WE FEEL THAT THE GREATEST OF OUR SHARING IS NOT THE MERE SHARING OF OUR THINGS & PERSONAL POSSESSIONS, BUT THE SHARING OF OUR LOVE & PERSONAL SERVICES FOR EACH OTHER, which is our FAITH & which results in our WORKS & the sharing of our MATERIAL possessions. Jesus Himself had nothing material to share with His disciples, only His Love & His life which He gave for them & for us that we too might have life & love forever!
         11. AND "NO GREATER LOVE HATH ANY MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS!"--JN.15:13. So we consider that the sharing of OURSELVES, our love & our life with others, is the greatest of all sharing & our ultimate goal, as well as our present means to that end.
         12. THEREFORE WE HAVE PLACED THE POWER-SHARING OF LEADERSHIP, "THE NEW LEADERSHIP REVOLUTION", as actually the seventh of this series in the fulfillment of our ultimate aim in the sharing of ourselves in ministration & administration to others, even as the Good Shepherd giveth His life for His sheep.

THE VISION FOR WORLD MISSIONS!

         13. FIRST IT WAS AMERICA FOR AMERICAN LEADERSHIP; THEN EUROPE FOR THE WISDOM & knowledge & international skill in LINGUISTICS. Now it will no doubt be a mighty wave of witnessing & harvesting through LATIN AMERICA to provide the dynamic & explosive leadership of these volatile Latins in the two languages of the World spoken in more countries than any others, Spanish & Portuguese!
         14. Following closely behind them is coming our final great Pacific & Asiatic push, which will complete our fulfillment of the Lord's commission to go into all the World & preach the Gospel unto every creature so He can come again & reap the great harvest of souls saved from every country on Earth to gather us all to that greatest of all feasts & festivals, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven while His wrath is being poured out upon our enemies upon the Earth, 'ere we return with Him to rule the World!

INTRODUCTION TO THE BREAKING UP OF BUREAUCRATIC BLOBBERY!

         15. Which would you prefer?--A low job or no job? Pretty soon you may be surprised to discover that all the UPPER-crust offices & their bureaucracies have been totally WIPED OUT along with the exalted staffs, their dictatorial, autocratic, bureaucratic former big-shot leadership deposed & disposed of, & their personnel scattered to the four winds, & there will be nothing but little lowly jobs left throughout the World on some far-flung foreign field amongst the humble natives of the land!
         16. Our original plan was to have the International Office handle only those services which could not possibly be performed on the local level, & we're going to get back to this now that we have reorganised our overall structure & trained more LOCAL leadership to take over the burden of many of these functions of a more LOCAL nature LOCALLY.
         17. Only those functions which must be performed by a single International Office or Communication Center will remain : They will only be the gathering & dispersement of INFORMATION & NEWS by means of POSTAL communication, God willing!

YOU CAN ANSWER MO'S MAIL!

         18. Any of the general public who should feel inspired to write to me personally because of my Letters will have to address such communications directly to whatever local office's address appears on the lit, & who hereby have my personal permission to open such letters from the general public & answer them for me as best they can in the very same way that my personal secretary now does the same, only you will now be able to follow up in a more PERSONAL ministry to them LOCALLY.
         19. JUST PLEASE FORWARD TO US THROUGH OUR SECRETARY A COPY OF THE PERSON'S LETTER & YOUR REPLY so we may know how you handled it & be sure it was handled properly & faithfully. Because of our present excellent translations of the MO Letters in many countries, many of the public already think I am a national of their particular country writing originally in their own language & therefore feel that I am truly one of them, which I am & which suits me fine, so please answer them for me accordingly in their OWN LANGUAGE!
         20. These changes totally eliminate the necessity for any further International Office operation other than that above stated, who shall amount to nothing more than a clearing house of INFORMATION, NEWS & STATISTICS & their distribution & publication, a COMMUNICATIONS CENTER for our Homes only!
         21. Any further public business or governmental correspondence must be directed locally on a local level with the local office involved.
         22. The information or Communications Center will then merely act as a secretarial-receptionist or a postmistress which simply sorts the mail & sees that it's delivered to those for whom it's intended, & cannot answer for us as an International Organisation which we hereby have officially disbanded into strictly local governments & organisations!

THE CONCLUSION: "THIS YEAR THE WORLD!"

         23. By this "Economy Revolution" of manpower & materials we could pioneer every last country in the World with our presently available personnel if each of you were willing to go! This could create a MISSIONARY MOVEMENT & a DISCIPLE explosion which would far surpass anything we have yet known, & much more than our first one in our "Great Escape" from the USA!
         24. Are you personally ready & willing to drop what you're now doing & what you thought was essential but which we have now proved to you could be inconsequential compared to the value of the immortal souls whom you COULD be reaching with His Wonder Working Words & our shining example of His Love in ALL the World to EVERY creature?
         25. If so, start today, & make your motto, "This year the World!"--Amen? May God bless you & help YOU to MAKE it so, His dream come true, HIS Commandment obeyed, HIS Words fulfilled & HIS great harvest of this LAST generation reaped for the Master's use!--I'M going!--Are YOU?

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