GO TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES!
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1. IN HUNTINGTON BEACH WE WON THE YOUNG UPPER-CLASS INTELLECTUALS WHO HAD MONEY & FUNDS & WERE THE REAL REVOLUTIONARIES & ALREADY FED-UP! They not only had the brains & the intelligence & the education to swing a Revolution, but had the funds to finance it! Where would we be if we'd just gone after the poor bums & the Skid Row characters?
2. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, & MAY BE ALREADY HAPPENING, IF THE FAMILY IS GOING TO START WINNING THE PEONS & THE PEASANTS & THE POOR--who haven't got the intelligence or the drive or the know-how to probably even reach their own people? They're going to be nothing but dependents & hangers-on with no potential for self-support or leadership whatsoever!
3. IF THEY'RE GOING TO GO AFTER THE POOR, THE POOR'S WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET! They're going to get people who are dependent on them instead of people that can support'm! (Maria: On the other hand, if they get the university students in these poor countries, the students have brains & talent that's going to be able to generate support!) They wouldn't be in university if they didn't have something!--Or their folks!
4. JESUS MINISTERED TO LOTS OF PEOPLE, but who did He pick for real disciples, labour leaders & soul-winners to carry on the work? He picked some fishermen who were well-to-do enough to own their own boats, & a tax-collector whom people hated because he made so much money, men who could contribute something & could earn their own living if they had to! They had something to forsake! "They forsook all & followed Him," so they must have had something! It was quite something to own a boat! That would be considered upper-middle-class!
5. SO WHEN JESUS WENT TO PICK DISCIPLES, HE PICKED DISCIPLES WHO DID HAVE AN EDUCATION! They were smart enough that they owned their own businesses, were self-supporting, & they could read & write! They wrote Epistles, very intelligent Epistles!
6. THE VAST MAJORITY OF SERMONS JESUS PREACHED WERE TO INDIVIDUALS who had disciple potential, whereas only a few times He fed the multitude or He preached to the masses. The Sermon on the Mount was preached just to the disciples, not to the masses. The real teaching sermons, preparing disciples to carry on the work & go out & go into all the World & preach the Gospel, He spent most of His time giving to the 12! The Sermon on the Mount was preached to the 12! The Last Supper sermon was preached to the 12! Jesus spent most of His time working with people who could carry on, who could be indigenous, self-supporting, self-governing & smart enough to take care of themselves & to get out the Gospel to the masses!
7. THE FAMILY IS AIMING AT THE WRONG STRATA OF SOCIETY TO EVER REALLY ESTABLISH ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO LAST & SUPPORT ITSELF & BE INDIGENOUS, SELF-SUPPORTING, SELF-GOVERNING & SELF-PROPAGATING! (Maria: They have a choice in whom to reach, so what should be their priority?)
8. GO TO THE CITIES! (No.927.) Not the boonies! Go to the intellectuals, go to the universities, go to the people who already speak your language & the native language as well & win them to the Lord, & then let them go out & evangelise their own people! (Maria: And if the intellectuals speak our language, then we don't necessarily have to put the lit into all the languages of the peasants, just into the language of the top intellectuals.) And most intellectuals today in most countries speak English! It is the most coveted popular language, the most international.
9. DON'T YOU THINK THE LORD KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING WHEN HE PICKED A BUNCH OF YOUNG RICH CALIFORNIA INTELLECTUALS TO LEAD THIS REVOLUTION TO BEGIN WITH? --Smart college students! He picked the country, He picked the language, He picked the people that could do it, & they have gone out into all the World into over a hundred countries & preached the Gospel to people that spoke 40 different languages that they didn't!
10. (MARIA: WE EVEN HAD TO MAKE A CHOICE WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THE REVOLUTION in California, & we didn't go to the children, we went to the university students. We've got to get our priorities straight, we can't do everything!) Why go into the Old Folks' Homes all the time & win people who could never possibly do anything for the Lord?--Or into the orphanages & the schools winning little kids to the Lord when it's going to be ten years before they can do anything in return for the Lord? No Revolution was ever led by either children or old folks or the peasants, the extremely poor!
11. WELL, THEY'VE GOTTEN AWAY FROM THE ORIGINAL PLAN! They're going after the wrong class of people! It's a kind of Marxist & hippie hang-up.
12. NEARLY ALL OF OUR FIRST DISCIPLES FOR AT LEAST THE FIRST TEN YEARS BEFORE WE GOT IN THE MISSION FIELD WERE YOUNG WELL-EDUCATED MIDDLE-CLASS, OR EVEN UPPER MIDDLE-CLASS, FAIRLY WELL-OFF YOUNG PEOPLE! They were the intelligentsia, intellectuals, educated, whose folks had money. Now their old folks are dying off & leaving them that money, which is helping them on the mission field!
13. WHAT JESUS DID WAS HE GOT SOME BOYS THAT WERE AT LEAST MIDDLE-CLASS, OWNED THEIR OWN BUSINESSES & WERE EDUCATED ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO READ & WRITE FLUENTLY, PROFICIENTLY, & PREACH WELL & WIN THEIR OWN! They even knew several different languages. So let's go out & get some Johns & Peters & Pauls & Matthews & some guys like that!--Some smart young fellows who have time to learn & study & read & then get out & preach the Gospel to others, & have enough money to do it! We can't support'm! We haven't got it! I mean, from the very beginning the disciples supported us, we didn't support the disciples!
14. (MARIA: ALL THOSE LETTERS YOU WROTE ABOUT LEARNING THE LANGUAGE & BECOMING ONE, THOSE WERE MORE DIRECTED AT LATIN AMERICA BECAUSE SPANISH IS THEIR MAJOR LANGUAGE!) You only have to learn one language, & it's the most widely-spoken language in more countries than any other language in the World, even English! In the Latin American countries, fine! Spanish is an easy language to learn, a very valuable international language, spoken actually in more countries than English! So there's a language worth learning, you can speak it in almost any country on about 3 different continents! That's worthwhile! But the idea of going out into a poor foreign country & learning a little local language of the poor that's only spoken in about one country, that's a terrible waste of time!--Forget it! We haven't got time!
15. I MEAN, I'M SURPRISED AT SOME OF THESE LEADERS, barking up the wrong tree, encouraging these people to learn the local language! (Maria: In a way, it's real nationalistic, divisive, encouraging the nationals so much almost to the point of being against the American leadership!) If they can't take American leadership to begin with, such as the whole World has done, GHU!
16. (MARIA: I BET IF WE'D EMPHASISE JUST THREE MINISTRIES:
1) MWM & Minstrel teams & follow-up,
2) Universities and
3) FFing
--& of course lit to all these--it would be a real revolution & would get the labour leaders, if we just abolished everything else.)
17. WE'RE LOOKING FOR LABOUR LEADERS TO GET OUT IN THE FIELD, INTO THE HARVEST! The Lord said, "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that He shall send forth labourers into the harvest!" (Mt.9:38)
18. FRANKLY, I'D RATHER SEE'M GET OUT & WIN SOME MORE INTELLECTUALS & COLLEGE STUDENTS & UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, REAL LABOUR LEADERS! Don't worry, the Message will filter down to the lower strata sooner or later. Let's face it, it was never the peons & the peasants who ever led this Revolution, it was always the intelligent, smart, educated, even home-financed people.
19. TO SUM IT ALL UP, THEY'D BETTER DO ON THESE FOREIGN FIELDS JUST WHAT WE DID ON THE HOME FIELDS & WHAT JESUS DID ON HIS HOME FIELD, & WIN THE SAME KIND OF DISCIPLES! Go after the rich young intellectuals, the educated & the smart & the fed-up! They've had it, but they're looking for something better--soul satisfaction! They already know English, they've already got an education, they already have got the drive & the know-how & the intelligence & the aggressiveness to be able to meet other people & get out & witness to people of their own kind. Then they can carry on & be indigenous, eventually self-supporting, self-governing & self-propagating! Pray for these & seek them out!
20. (MARIA: IT'S A LOT HARDER TO GET THAT KIND OF DISCIPLE, because not only do you have to work to get'm, but then you have to really work for months to get'm in, really feed'm & really take a lot of time.) Right! But once you get'm, you've got something! Look what Jesus did, He worked on His for three-&-a-half years before He figured they were ready to be on their own!
21. NO WONDER THEY'RE GETTING BOGGED DOWN IN THESE POOR FOREIGN COUNTRIES, they're falling prey to the same kind of tripe that some of the other denominational missionaries fell for: "Oh no, you've got to learn the local language." It seems to happen in every denomination that the missionaries gradually begin to gravitate down to the lower level, lower strata. They're not aiming high enough, their aim is too low. I think it's just taking the easy way out! They'd rather preach to children who are simple & readily accept & believe & old folks who are glad if anyone loves them.
22. (MARIA: IT'S AMAZING HOW FAST THE FAMILY'S GOTTEN OFF THE TRACK!) Well, the Devil always uses some "good reason", you know, "Oh, we've got to win everybody, we've got to win the poor, we're not becoming one, we're not reaching the millions!" Well, Jesus didn't reach millions either! He didn't even really train or gain thousands of disciples, He only had 12 He could count on. He spent most of His time teaching them & training them & preaching most of His sermons to them & giving them most of His lessons & class hours, until by the time He was ready to leave them behind 3-1/2 years later, they were well able to carry on with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit! And they did a terrific job or we wouldn't be here today!
23. GO TO THE CITIES! GO TO THE UNIVERSITIES! Get the leadership & they can win their own people! (Maria: Pray specifically for it!) You're going to get what you go after! You get what you ask for! (Maria: But if you ask for it, then you have to give the Lord a little cooperation by going to the places where those people are!)
24. LORD BLESS'M & HELP'M TO GET THE POINT! We haven't got enough personnel, manpower or funds to do everything, we've got to specialise in what counts, which will accomplish the most & win & train the real labour leaders, real disciples that can do the job. Help people to understand that we're not being smug, snobbish, exclusive, but we can only do so much & we can only support so much, Lord, so we have to do it where it counts & where it will go the furthest & accomplish the most, be the most fruitful & most profitable & eventually reach the most through the people who already know the languages & have the leadership potential to lead'm & reach'm & teach'm & spread it, in Jesus' name. Amen!
25. JESUS DID IT & IT DID THE TRICK!--IT REACHED THE WHOLE WORLD! We did it & it did the trick!--It reached the whole World in English before we ever got bogged down in these local languages!
26. C'MON! LET'S TAKE THE PERSONNEL, FUNDS & TIME & ENERGY & EQUIPMENT & GO OUT & FOLLOW UP ENGLISH-SPEAKING INTELLIGENT EDUCATED DISCIPLES we've already got out there, who'll be able to lead their country in a nationwide Revolution for Jesus! Let's go to those who count & can do it, even without us if that time comes!--And let's do it now before it's too late!--Amen? GBY & help you to get those who can finish the job!--Amen?--IJNA! WLY all!--Go to the leaders of tomorrow!
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