THE DISCIPLE REVOLUTION!                  DFO 328B                  2/75
        
         1. INSTEAD OF WORRYING SO MUCH about our top-heavy leadership & business & bands & money & organisation & meetings & entertainments & reports & gimmicks & sex & housing & personal feuds & whatnot, IT'S TIME WE GOT OFF OUR BUTTS & GOT OUT & WON SOME REAL SOULS, some genuine new disciples for the Kingdom of God!
         2. WITH FOUR CHIEFS TO EVERY INDIAN, WE'VE GOT TOO MANY CHIEFS & NOT ENOUGH INDIANS! So it's time some of you Chiefs got out in some fresh new green fields & started harvesting the overripe grain for God & bringing in the hungry babes for Jesus, lest we inform you we don't need leaders who aren't interested in obeying & pioneering & scattering those blobs into all the World!
         3. I'M NOT AT ALL SOLD ON THIS TWO WEEKS' PROBATIONARY PERIOD! I think we lose a lot of real disciples through it who oughta leap first & LOOK AFTERWARD, the way Jesus' disciples did! That's the way Jesus did it, & I don't see why we can't too.
         4. I BELIEVE THIS BUSINESS OF TURNING DOWN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO JOIN IMMEDIATELY IS SENDING SOULS TO HELL & at least back to the pit! It's not paying off in new disciples & it's not bearing good fruit. (See also No.2385 & 2410)
         5. IF WE HAD PUT SOME OF YOU ON TWO WEEKS' PROBATION YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY! But because you forsook all INSTANTLY & joined IMMEDIATELY, it was a helluva lot harder for you to QUIT, & most of you finally managed to survive. Most everybody in the World knows who we are & what we stand for, & I don't think we need to give'm two weeks to think it over! They've probably been thinking about it a long time already before they asked to join, & when they finally get up the courage to make the decision & you ask them to wait another two weeks, it gives the Devil too much time to get in!
         6. DID WE START THAT TWO-WEEK RULE BECAUSE WE WERE AFRAID WE WERE GETTING TOO MANY NEW DISCIPLES & didn't know what we'd do with'm all? You'd better read some of my old Letters on the subject!
         7. WE'D BETTER START LETTING THEM JOIN WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE IT & when the Spirit's hot & heavy on them & you can strike while the iron is hot & malleable before they cool off & the Devil changes their mind!
         8. IS IT BECAUSE YOU'RE SO SELFISH YOU'RE NO LONGER WILLING TO SHARE as you once did, & you don't want these new uncouth outsiders intruding & adding to the problems & burdens of your nice little completed & finished Home that is self-sufficient without them & doesn't need their forsake-all even if they have any?
         9. ARE YOU LIKE THE SELFISH PARENTS WHO ABORT THEIR BABIES BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN BORN SO THEY WON'T HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM AFTERWARDS? Something is terribly wrong when we're not getting more new disciples!
         10. IS IT BECAUSE YOU THINK YOU DON'T NEED'M ANYMORE that you're not GETTING any more? Well, I wanna tell you right now, you NEED'M, or you yourselves are gonna die on the vine & there'll be nobody to replace you!
         11. THE TROUBLE WITH SOME OF YOU IS YOU'VE BECOME JUST LIKE THE CHURCHES, satisfied with your little clique of me, thee, thou & no other! You don't WANT any new disciples & to be forced to TRAIN them to take YOUR place so you'll HAVE to go to some other new field & pioneer it where they've NEVER heard & we have NO Homes!
         12. TAKE A LOOK AT OTHER ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS, CULTURES & CREEDS & NATIONS & SOCIETIES WHO HAD ARRIVED & thought they had it made & had it all & didn't want to go any place any more to spread their blessings to the poor & their benefits to the underprivileged!
         13. GOD'S JUDGMENTS SOON FELL & THEY WERE SCATTERED to the four winds, whether they wanted to go or not! THEN they carried with them the seeds of the Gospel or their particular truth or culture wherever they went, though involuntarily & unwillingly!
         14. SOME OF YOU ARE GETTING TOO SETTLED DOWN & it's going to take the JUDGMENTS of GOD of persecution &/or catastrophe to shake some of you out of those nests to leave them behind with the babes & fledglings to try their wings so you can go elsewhere & build more nests & raise new families where you're more needed!
         15. A LOT OF YOU ARE SETTLING DOWN LIKE SOME OLD-BOTTLE MISSIONARIES I know, & living just like you did at home with no more desire to move, no more passion for souls, no more interest in pioneering newer & greener fields.
         16. YOU'VE ARRIVED, YOU'VE GOT IT MADE, YOU'VE SETTLED DOWN & let the roots grow down, & you don't even WANT new local disciples to interfere with your comfortable living, so that our growth has slowed almost to a standstill, our spread has nearly come to a halt, because you're no longer willing to go!
         17. I'LL TELL YOU, BELOVED, I'M DESPERATELY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS because I can sense the self-satisfaction in some of you, the self-contentment & desire to stay. God's never let me stay more than about two years in any one place, & He's usually made me move even more often than that, even when I didn't want to. c
         18. YOU'VE CEASED TO BE A PIONEER & HAVE BECOME A SETTLER. You want to settle down & enjoy the fruits of your pioneering. But TRUE pioneers don't work that way: As soon as the new field becomes settled & established they get itchy feet for faraway places that have never been trod by their feet before, & away they go, leaving their former field to those who aren't ready to go yet.
         19. Are you a pioneer or a settler? Are you alive-&-going, or dead-&-staying? Have you settled down to vegetate & become like the rest of the bumps on the logs?
         20. OR ARE YOU LIKE AN ARROW THAT WANTS TO BE SHOT INTO THE SKY & land in some new field, you care not where, as long as it's out of here in some place else, some place different, some place new where others haven't been before you!--That's the spirit of the TRUE pioneer!
         21. ONE OF THESE DAYS SOON YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FACE GOD & REPORT TO HIM your failure, & you're going to have them weigh heavily on your soul with their blood on your hands because you not only refused to go out to rescue the lost sheep but you even turned them away from the door of your fold! May God have mercy on us & them before it's too late! !
         22. WHO'S IN YOUR HOME YOU CAN DO WITHOUT?--PROBABLY YOU!--You top leaders who've been around a long time, so long that you've gotten so fat as mama & papa birds that there's not even room in the nest for the fledglings!
         23. WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS BOOT YOU OUT & LET THE BABES TAKE OVER! They might do an even better job with fresher vision & more childlike faith, while YOU hit the road to some NEW field where you can RENEW your vision, exercise your faith & get a new burden for souls & more disciples for the Lord!
         24. WE HAVE SOME DEAR LITTLE SHEEP WHO ARE BEGGING AT YOUR DOORS for food, hungering for more Letters & you won't even give them to them because they don't happen to belong to your particular Home or carry a membership card!
         25. I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, I WANT YOU TO GIVE THOSE KIDS THE GP & DFO LETTERS & trust God for our security & the results! Don't be so God-damned selfish & clannish! Read the "Birthday Warning" again & shake yourself out of that lethargy, that lethargic stupidity & selfishness that makes you deny God's children their meat in due season!
         26. GOD HAS BEEN PATIENT WITH US AS WE PREPARED LEADERSHIP & LITERATURE for the job, but now that we have plenty of both we are without excuse.
         27. ANY HOME THAT'S FAITHFULLY WITNESSING & litnessing ought to be winning disciples! We used to be experts on persuading people to forsake all & follow Jesus, but now we're not willing to forsake all ourselves & follow Him to become fishers of men! We're out scattering the seed & the bait & the hooks & the lines, but we're not willing to bring them IN: It's too much work!
         28. ARE YOU JUDGING SUCCESS IN TERMS OF DOLLARS NOWADAYS INSTEAD OF DISCIPLES? There was a day when we had very FEW Dollars but LOTS of disciples! Which do you think God will judge us by?
         29. I WARN YOU THAT GOD WILL JUDGE US BY OUR FRUITS, NOT BY OUR SEEDS SOWN! He's going to judge us by the results in harvesting the CROP, not by how many lABOURERS we put in the field. He's gonna judge us by the RESULTS in SOULS WON to the fellowship of FULLTIME SERVICE & not by the DOLLARS earned for FULLTIME COMFORT!
         30. I'M GOING TO HELP HIM BY STARTING TO JUDGE SOME OF YOU MYSELF, & we're going to start SHAKING UP the old-bottle leadership which are not getting disciples & CHANGE their leadership for more FRUITFUL FOREMEN in the field!
         31. MOST OF YOU ARE NO LONGER TEENAGERS & YOU'RE BEGINNING TO BECOME LIKE YOUR PARENTS, who didn't want to be bothered with YOU, like you don't want to be bothered with disciples! So YOU yourself have reverted to the very PARENTAL PATTERN from which you once REVOLTED! t
         32. WHO ARE THE REBELS NOW?--YOU WHO REBEL AGAINST THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD & the laws of the Letters, & whose children are going to rebel against YOU soon if you don't follow GOD? What are they learning from YOUR example?
         33. DO YOU NOT ONLY LITNESS & SOW THE SEED, BUT ALSO REAP THE CROP, WIN SOULS & BRING NEW DISCIPLES into the Family & show them sacrificial love & unselfish care & genuine sharing?--Or have you, like the rich, lost the communal spirit & become like the newly rich that want to keep it all for YOURSELVES & your OWN family & your OWN children in your OWN little private Heavenly Home that's no longer open to the PUBLIC & NEW disciples? Is the Revolution turning into a new system like all the rest?
         34. IF SO, GOD & I TOGETHER WITH THE FEW WHO ARE WILLING TO FOLLOW JESUS WILL GO SOMEPLACE ELSE & START A NEW REVOLUTION of the people who are willing to win SOULS & become fishers of MEN & want to bear BABES into the Kingdom of God & are not afraid to take CARE of them as NEW Children in a NEW Family of God who want to make disciples of ALL nations as Jesus commanded!
         35. OTHERWISE, IF WE STOP GROWING WE'RE AS DEAD AS THE REST of the churches & we're doomed to their fate! For God's sake, don't let it happen to YOU! Bring in a NEW disciple today!--Amen? PTL! ILY!
         36. IF THE REVOLUTION IS ANYTHING AT ALL IT IS A SOUL-WINNING, DISCIPLE-MAKING REVOLUTION OR IT IS NOTHING AT ALL & no better than the rest of the churches! The Revolution was born in the white-hot fires of a soul-winning explosion amongst the spiritually-starving youth of this generation, & a disciple-gaining movement of a salvation army on fire for God to win youth of the World from pitiful hopeless lives of drugs, vice, crime, nothingness & uselessness to the thrilling, exciting, inspiring, glorious life of love & usefulness to others in the Kingdom of God on Earth!
         37. IF WE HAVE CEASED TO BE SUCH SOUL-WINNING DISCIPLE-MAKERS & LOVERS OF THE LOST, desiring to save them & train them to serve God & others, then we have lost our reason for living & no longer have any excuse for existence & might as well cease our operations as just another dead church that has gone to sleep & left its engine running! We might as well cut it off & save fuel & quit pretending to be a REVOLUTION when we've stopped REVOLUTING!
         38. IF WE DON'T WANT TO BE ANOTHER HAS-BEEN WE'D BETTER GET IT BACK IN GEAR FAST & STEP ON THE GAS & start driving like mad again & start getting someplace, or we're finished! We're already dead if we've stagnated & stopped growing & going & gaining new disciples for His cause! We might as well close up shop if we're not going to do anything but scatter seed & never reap the harvest!
         39. IF THIS IS NOT A LIFE WORTH WINNING DISCIPLES TO, THEN LET'S SAVE OUR BREATH & our paper & our leg work & go back to the Pit from which we came, if we've become nothing but another money-making, just-make-a-living & merely-exist system like they are!--Which are YOU?--We'll soon see!

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