THE NEW LEADERSHIP REVOLUTION!            DO 329C                   3/75
        
         1. FROM NOW ON EVERY TWO OR THREE HOMES SHALL BE CONSIDERED A DISTRICT & elect their OWN District Shepherd from amongst the ranks of their OWN local Shepherds with the consent & approval of the Regional Shepherd. NO Shepherd shall be appointed without the consent & approval of BOTH adjoining levels of leadership ABOVE & BELOW.
         2. WHEN A DISTRICT SHALL HAVE GROWN TO FOUR HOMES IT SHALL BE SPLIT IMMEDIATELY INTO TWO DISTRICTS OF TWO HOMES EACH according to the division decided upon by the local Homes & their District Shepherd with the consent of the Regional Shepherd. The NEW District so formed shall immediately elect its OWN District Shepherd by the procedures aforestated with the consent of the Regional Shepherd, etc.
         3. IN ANY RARE CASE OF THE FAILURE TO AGREE OR OBTAIN SUCH CONSENT, THE DISTRICT COUNCIL OF LOCAL SHEPHERDS SHALL MEET TOGETHER WITH THE REGIONAL SHEPHERD TO AGREE TOGETHER on what shall be done, which decision shall then be referred to the Local Home Councils for their consent. NOTHING shall be done without the AGREEMENT of those GOVERNED, together with those GOVERNING.
         4. NO OFFICERS AT ANY LEVEL SHALL BE CHOSEN WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF BOTH ADJOINING LEVELS, the one ABOVE & the one BELOW, so that ALL links in the Chain-of-Cooperation can work TOGETHER in AGREEMENT & HARMONY & be SELF-GOVERNING in unity. This will totally destroy any dictatorial power within our ranks that is without the consent of those governed.
         5. THIS WILL BROADEN OUR POWER BASE MORE EVENLY & MORE WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT OUR RANKS, SPREADING MORE POWER DOWNWARD from the top into the GRASS ROOTS of the LOCAL areas concerned. This will also greatly multiply the total number of responsible leaders & officers throughout our ranks, creating many new offices & positions with more shoulders to bear a broader load & with less responsibility on each shoulder.
         6. THIS PLAN WILL IN EFFECT CONSTITUTE AN OFFICER TRAINING PROGRAMME wherein each leader in each capacity is training no less than two nor more than three new leaders under him in the very same position which he himself has just vacated or formerly occupied & should therefore understand so well.
         7. IT IS AN ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE WHICH IS PYRAMIDICAL IN COMPOSITION & USUALLY TRIUMVIRATE IN POWER, with no more than two or three Counsellors to each Council presided over by an administrator of the next level above. The structure is of the utmost simplicity like a tree, with Jesus as its Root & Foundation Stump, your Prophet & King as its chief administrator, with the sap of God's Word as its life blood. (See "The Tree!", No. 319)
         8. EACH MAJOR BRANCH DIVIDES INTO ONLY TWO OR THREE SUBDIVISIONS, which in turn are each divided into only two or three more subsidiaries, etc., up to the tiniest twig of a Home & its little budding leaders, leafy works & flowering fruits--the new disciples!!
         9. THE LOCAL COUNCIL OF LOCAL SHEPHERDS SHOULD MEET AT LEAST EVERY TWO WEEKS. District Councils of local Shepherds should meet at least once a month. General Councils of District Shepherds should meet every TWO MONTHS. National Councils of their GASs should try to meet at least once every QUARTER.
         10. AT THESE REGULAR MEETINGS ELECTIONS SHOULD BE HELD each time to either confirm the existing leadership with a vote of confidence or select new leaders if that vote of confidence does not carry by a majority, or keep voting until it does!
         11. TO CLEAR UP A FEW ODDS & ENDS, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ONLY COUNCIL MEMBERS & THEIR WIVES OF ANY COUNCIL ABOVE THE LOCAL HOME LEVEL CAN VOTE--not all their other staff or family members or department heads or secretaries or inlaws & outlaws etc.!
         12. SOME OF YOU GUYS REALLY KNOW HOW TO STACK YOUR COUNCILS with your own adherents, & some leaders' primary requisite as a qualification for any office seems to be, "Is he one of my PERSONAL WORSHIPPERS & will he always be sure to be LOYAL to ME & vote MY way?"
         13. REMEMBER ALSO THAT NO OFFICER SHOULD HOLD TWO OFFICES, such as both Regional & District Shepherd. This will now be impossible under this new structuring.
         14. AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT A SHEPHERD IS SUPPOSED TO DO, HE'S OF COURSE SUPPOSED TO BE SHEPHERDING & taking care of his flock or flocks & seeing that they are properly enfolded, fed, protected, etc. So you Shepherds at every level should be frequently visiting & surveying your flocks to know the state of your sheep!
         15. AND WE DON'T BELIEVE IN THIS POLICY SOME HAVE OF MAKING THEIR UNDERLEADERS EARN THEIR TITLES FIRST before they give them the TITLE or AUTHORITY they NEED to DO the job! They're ELECTED to the title which GIVES them the authority to do it, & they must THEN prove they can do it or be ousted in favour of someone else.
         16. THE TROUBLE WITH OUR OUTFIT FOR A LONG TIME HAS BEEN THAT THERE HAVE BEEN TOO FEW PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH AUTHORITY TRYING TO DO TOO MANY JOBS! From now on there are going to be a lot MORE PEOPLE with a lot LESS AUTHORITY each doing a lot FEWER JOBS each & therefore doing them a lot BETTER! We're forcing the leadership DOWNWARD & OUTWARD, so that NOBODY has too much say about what's going on without EVERYBODY having their say! If you only have a FEW BIG leaders & one of the few fails, he leaves a very big hole! But if you have a LOTTA LITTLE LEADERS & somebody fails, he may not even be missed very much!
         17. THIS PYRAMIDICAL STRUCTURE WORKS PRIMARILY IN THREES, with each brick in the wall resting half across each of the two below, meaning more little leaders for smaller jobs, resulting in closer supervision & less responsibility, with the consequent great opportunity to do a BETTER job.
         18. OUR NEW STRUCTURE IS BUILT IN THREES, OR TRIOS OR TRIUMVIRATES, SO IF YOU WANNA BE TRIUMPHANT BE TRIUMVIRATE! Like each three bricks in the brick wall with the one above resting on top of the two below, it resembles God's basic family structure: The baby resting on the Mother & Father below. Each two units below are actually the parents of the one above. The parents are training the baby to be a new leader, while at the same time he's training them to be new parents!
         19. SMALL INTIMATE COMMITTEES & COUNCILS OF THREE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN TO DO A BETTER & FASTER JOB more effectively & efficiently, rather than large deliberating bodies who have so many different ideas & opinions to express with so many people doing so much TALKING they never get anything DONE!
         20. IT IS THEREFORE BETTER TO SPREAD OUT THE LEADERSHIP INTO SMALLER UNITS instead of concentrating so much power in the hands of so few. It has been said that the reason for the decline of the A&P STORES has been "OVER-conservatism of an INBRED MANAGEMENT", & that the difficulties of the POLAROID CORPORATION were caused by "the TOP MEN holding TOO MANY TITLES"!
         21. NO ONE IS GOING TO HOLD OFFICE IN OUR NEW TRIUMPHANT TRIUMVIRATE TRIANGULAR STRUCTURE OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD MERELY BY REASON OF NATURAL BIRTH! Only those born AGAIN & EARNING their place & PROVING themselves worthy of it are going to REMAIN. It's now open season on jobs in the Revolution, & if you can MAKE it you can TAKE it! Shoot for the stars!
         22. In our Psalm 75 for this year of 1975 it says: "Unto Thee O God do we give thanks! ...For that Thy name is near, Thy wondrous works declare! When I shall receive the CONGREGATION I will judge uprightly...I said unto the fools, `Deal not foolishly', & to the wicked, `Lift not up the horn on high'...For PROMOTION cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South. But GOD is the judge: He putteth down one & setteth up another...All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted!"--Which are YOU & what will be YOUR fate this year? Let us hear from you so we'll know, & that right EARLY! God bless & help you all! Love, Dad.

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