THE BLOB WAR!             DO 315B         10/74
MWWFL 21

         1. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FOR DECENTRALISATION & DIVERSIFICATION, but usually I no sooner turn my back & am out of sight than you guys have built up another big blob which becomes such a monster that you don't know what to do with it, where to put it, how to control it or much less support it!
         2. YOUR BIG BLOB COLONIES ARE LIKE THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF INFLATION: The more people you get into them, the more people you need to operate them, so there's no end or limit until you burst out of your building into one big flop & depression, just like the World's present crazy economic system is about to do!--And all because you're unwilling to BREAK IT UP & go back to the GRASS ROOTS from which you came!
         3. OF COURSE, NOBODY THEN COULD BE THE BIG BOSS & THE BIG SHOT & EVERY LITTLE DEPARTMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE NOTHING BUT LITTLE SHOTS, each operating independently on its own with its own particular ministry & merely coordinated by somebody who's willing to be NOBODY but a SERVANT of ALL, constantly slogging around from place to place to see WHAT they're doing & HOW they're doing & make sure they're DOING it so that each job gets DONE!
         4. EACH DEPARTMENT COULD THEN BE PRETTY MUCH ON ITS OWN, responsible for its own job, so that the "RETARDED CHILDREN" are no longer a drag on the "GIFTED" ones, instead of having all your eggs in one basket & trying to teach the HANDICAPPED while the GENIUSES are wasting time!
         5. SOME OF YOUR DEPARTMENTS COULD STILL STAY MOBILE enough that they could move at a moment's notice as often as necessary, such as the Administrative OFFICE where each little secretary could just pick up her own typewriter & walk out into the next place if she had to.
         6. IF THESE DEPARTMENTS WERE SPLIT UP INTO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AS A SUGGESTED POSSIBILITY, EACH COULD BE PUT ON ITS OWN FINANCIALLY as much as possible to raise their own personal expenses, such as housing, utilities, food etc., while each receives their needed proportion of the total income for the individual budget of each department's particular ministry & its needs, such as their actual expenses of production of their particular products for World needs.
         7. BY TOTALLY DIVIDING THE DEPARTMENTS & EVEN THEIR LOCATIONS it would not only be SAFER & LESS DRAG on each other, but also give each department a feeling of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for their OWN personal needs, as well as a sense of individual INCENTIVE & INSPIRATION to accomplish their individual TASKS as SEPARATE departments responsible for THEIR job alone & to get the individual CREDIT or BLAME for GETTING or NOT getting it done!
         8. THIS MIGHT EVEN UNLEASH THEIR OWN INITIATIVE in a cooperative competitive spirit to see what they could really DO on their own without hampering or bothering each OTHER. We'd soon find out who's really got the FAITH & the ABILITY to get things moving, almost like a SHINERS & SHAMERS comparison!
         9. THIS WOULD ALSO BREAK THEM UP INTO SMALLER, MORE INTIMATE FAMILY-LIKE HOMES where each Shepherd could keep closer track of his flock & where each would be responsible for his OWN & not so much ANOTHER'S, although ALL would work in COOPERATION TOGETHER, as a TOTAL TEAM for the GOING GOAL!
         10. THIS WOULD ALSO INHIBIT DICTATORIAL CONTROL BY THE WOULD-BE BIG SHOTS, so that EACH department would be PERSONALLY responsible to us only through its DEPARTMENTAL HEAD & OVERALL COORDINATOR of the whole, who would merely act as a supervisor & reporter, responsible for them to us alone.
         11. THE LORD SHOWED ME HE WOULD SOONER HAVE & TRUST TEN YOUNG TREES TO MAKE IT THAN ONE BIG HUGE OLD ROTTEN ONE that's ready to topple & crash under its own crushing weight! We may have to start a Revolution WITHIN the Revolution of YOUNGER, NEWER bottles who can TAKE it & DO it!
         12. EVEN IF YOU DO FIND A BUILDING LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF THESE DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER, EACH department should be put on a SEPARATE FLOOR or SECTION & OPERATED SEPARATELY & independently of each other as outlined above, & only supervised by a man who's going to get around & check up on EVERY ONE of them EVERY DAY & report as to how they're doing EACH WEEK.
         13. IF THEY DON'T LIKE THE WAY HE SUPERVISES OR HE ENDEAVOURS TO EXERCISE DICTATORIAL CONTROL, they may deliver their individual reports to us personally through our personal secretary & her emissaries directly to us so we can judge the situation for ourselves & correct it if need be.
         14. Most of you have been doing a great job & have accomplished a great deal the best you can & the best you know how, since the BIG BLOB seems to be the only way you KNOW how, & may God forgive me if you learned this from ME from PAST experiences even in our humble BEGINNINGS!--But I DON'T believe you DID, for as fast as YOU'VE created them I have always tried to break them up, as you so well know, but that's the only way some of you seem to know how to operate! c
         15. IF YOU, THE PRESENT LEADERSHIP, CANNOT BREAK UP THESE BIG BLOBS, WE WILL HAVE TO FIND OTHERS WHO CAN do it for you, if I have to take your underlings & put them on their own & give them a chance to see if they can make it, like little cuttings from the main dying tree or seedlings from the falling giant!
         16. IF WE CANNOT POUR THIS NEW WINE INTO YOU OLD BOTTLES OR PATCH UP THE OLD GARMENT, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND SOME NEW ONES!--MAT.9:6-17. This has always been God's way if the old bottles & the old garments couldn't take it! He has always had to use new young blood to do a new young thing, & you are no exception! If you CANNOT stretch & CHANGE to accommodate this NEW situation, God'll have to find OTHERS who CAN do it!
         17. IN EVERY COUNTRY OUR FAMILY HAVE EACH GONE FURTHER ON THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL FAITH THAN THEY COULD HAVE ON OURS, & have released so much energy by their own faith that they have literally EXPLODED WORLDWIDE! Instead of trying to CONTROL everything & ORGANISE everything & PLAN everything only from the TOP DOWN, we have allowed THEM to explode according to their OWN faith & INDIVIDUAL initiative, & they have done it with a THUNDEROUS ROAR around the WORLD!
         18. WE HAVE MERELY ACTED AS A GENERALLY GUIDING, SUPERVISORY, ADVISORY & COORDINATING INFLUENCE, a central exchange of ideas, messages & glorious reports! We would now like to see what the departments can individually do in their OWN fields of exploring, pioneering & conquering their OWN territories in their OWN ministries!--Are YOU ready to see what YOU can do? Are YOU willing to pioneer in your OWN field & ministry as those on the OTHER fronts are doing? Are YOU ready to put YOUR department in the front lines on your OWN faith & your OWN initiative & your OWN Godly leadings as you expect the Family to do on all OTHER fields?
         19. I AM LAYING IT ON THE LINE TO YOU!--I AM SENDING YOU TO THE FRONT LINES--ALL of you, each & every DEPARTMENT & every MEMBER of every department: Are YOU willing to step out by FAITH & see what GOD can do through YOU & YOUR department ALONE on your OWN with as little help & direction from US as the kids on any OTHER field?--We HOPE so! Because WE believe you can DO it if given a chance & you really TRY!--Are YOU willing?--Then start TODAY!

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