International President’s Message

Rev. Moon Hyung-jin

The Central Focus

for Our Religious
Leaders
Hyung-jin nim conveyed the following message at the opening of the World
National Leaders Assembly 2009 to more than a hundred and twenty members,
mainly national leaders and regional presidents, who were anxious to connect to
their international president’s heart. The assembly took place January 28–31 at
the Cheongshim Youth Center and the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace in Korea.

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ello brothers and sisters. True Parents just arrived today. They are
very happy that you could all come from all over the world to
participate in the first national leaders’ conference. There will be
many topics over the course of the next few days, but these are
really preparatory for the celebration of True Parents' birthday, so
we hope that you will all come with that kind of celebratory heart, to really praise
and give glory to True Parents on this very auspicious occasion.
Brothers and sisters, I would just like to share some of the things that have
kept me constant ever since Father asked us to take on responsibility. We started
out in the Mapo church; it’s a small church here in Korea. Whenever Father
asked me to do something new, I asked him one question, “Father, what should
I do next?” Father’s answer has been consistent. His response is very simple.
“Continue to give jeongseong.” That’s a very important secret, I would say.
We have many different theories about why the movement is not growing
or developing as we would like. Here in Korea, as we are growing the church,
we are wrestling with these ideas, developing new witnessing strategies, new
organizational structures and transparent financial management. It’s very
important. We have to be very systematic and rational in the way we think about
our church development.
We are so grateful to Kook-jin hyung because he has such a systematic,
organized mind and so many years of experience running organization. He has
so much insight. A lot of the plans and strategies for development have come out
of his genius or his Task Force Teams, which make proposals for better church
growth. We deal with many different things on the ground. Because we run the
church from the ground, many things have to be tested—whether it be a home
group method or new witnessing strategy. I know you are all concerned about
this and very interested in these developments, but at the same time, we have to
remember that we are a spiritual movement.
We have to develop the practical organizational systems; these are critical
because they provide us a safety net from organizational trouble. They prevent
organizational disasters or catastrophes. But we have to recall that we are a
spiritual tradition that is rooted in the devotional life. Father could have told me
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to focus on young people’s education, or focus on witnessing,
which of course our teams do, but he specifically told me to
continue to give jeongseong.
The Chinese character for seong (誠) in Jeongseong has a
very deep meaning. It’s a character meaning “to embody the
word;” on the left is “the word” and on the right is the radical
for “becoming” or “actualizing.” It is the substantiation of
what Father has been teaching.
It seems as if, as we get very much into church
development and structures, we may start to believe that it
is less important to live an authentically religious life. It may
be third or fourth on our list of important tasks. Religion, of
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thing beyond any of those structures; that is, it is spiritual.
Every healthy religion is; it has to be to be vibrant and alive.
That’s very important for us. We start our day at 2:30 with
devotional practice. We go up a mountain and pray there,
meditate and do recitations and bows up there. We start
our day that way because one of the fundamental aspects of
leadership, of religious leadership, is to continuously live a
religious life. This entails not just the externals but truly trying
to rid oneself of the trappings that can come once we take on
position or power. To be watching oneself, analyzing oneself,
meditating on oneself and emptying oneself. We see this in the
Christian tradition, kenosis, emptying ourselves—which I see
as a very important aspect of religious leadership. Out of that
emptying, comes humility and the attempt to live a sacrificial
life. Nobody’s perfect at those things, but the attempt to
practice them comes out of our own attitude toward our faith.
To me that is central. If I have a specialization, that’s it. I’m
trying to focus on keeping that center that True Father has
given us, keeping sincerity of heart.
Sincerity in this context, is not, as in the traditional sense,
an attitude. Jeongseong goes into physical actions, physical
religious practice, or a devotional offering—an actualization
of religious principles into life. It has a very action-oriented
meaning in this context. So when I use sincerity, I’m always
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including that element.
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nization. Father asked us to take responsibility, then Kook-jin
hyung helped us create the team, which Director Cho1 was
also involved in, so the World Mission Department was reor-
ganized. Then, we implemented the whole church restruc���� tur-
ing plan.
One thing we try to focus on is empowerment of people,
empowerment of our members. That’s very important. If you
have an empowered citizenship, you have an empowered
nation, a very positive nation. One of the principles I always
try to work with is that when Father gives me more responsi-
bility, I give more away.
The Headquarters Church has had its first election for our
women’s ministry. These women are taking on very important
roles in the church. It’s the age of women in the church and
we’re very happy to see women rising up in leadership.
The women in the congregation elected them. No men were
present at the election. These woman leaders work with the
ministers on different teams. We are giving away authority. At
the Headquarters Church, I have the authority to choose the
leaders I want. If I wanted to put a certain woman in charge
of a group, I could do that, but it’s important to let go of
authority, learn to give power to our members. As members
feel included, it creates a powerful energy. That’s what we did.
We gave the members the power to choose their leaders. They
chose the exact people we were scouting. The members as a
group chose every single person we were interested in having
as a leader. Because of that, we have tremendous confidence in
allowing the members to have a larger say in how the church
is developing. We’ve tried to do this in every single aspect.
For example, Kook-jin hyung has brought in his Jaedan
[HSAUWC Foundation] management team. These profes-
1 Cho Sung-il, a senior colleague in the FFWPU International office,
also known as the World Mission Department, this magazine's parent
organization.
World National Leaders
Assembly 2009 at the
Cheongshim Youth Center
Today’s World
Hyung-jin nim spoke at the opening of the assembly. At 2:30 the next morning everyone joined him for his daily devotions before
attending hoondokhae with True Parents.
sionals manage all the church donations. The minister doesn’t
touch the donations. This is a very important issue. In other
religions as well, such as Buddhism and some forms of
Catholicism, the priests and monks won’t actually handle
money, as part of their practice; there’s a real separation from
the use of finances.
What we’ve done is create a transparent system. We report
every single financial detail to the members every month.
That’s done by the head of the financial management team
[see article, page 42]. He gives a report to the membership so
they clearly see where every single penny is being spent. That
kind of financial management also empowers the members,
because it gives them insight into where the organization is
moving, what it’s investing in and where it’s using their hard-
earned donations.
We have been working with a new witnessing program.
We’ve also been working with home-group systems, which
you see being used in large Protestant churches. Some of those
things are being adjusted, because they don’t fit our context.
We are looking at many different areas. My point is that it’s
like a laboratory.
Many people come up to me and ask, When will you come
to our nation?
I’m always so sorry. I would love to come to every nation.
I wish I could magically duplicate my body. I wish I could go
around. I explain that we’re trying to create something that
will be like medicine for certain problems. Before that medi-
cine goes into production and spreads around the world, we
have to test it first; we have to make sure that the medicine,
when delivered, creates a predictable response. Of course, this
is not exactly like medicine, so there’s a little flexibility here,
but I use that analogy to express that we have to test these
methods. We don’t want to work just with theories. We want
to make sure they lead to the desired outcome. That’s why
I’ve focused on the Headquarters Church. I’ve been asked to
tour Korea, and I’ve said the same thing. I could have gone
around and spoken about a new service culture, about a new
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style of worship, a new church organization that should help
to promote church growth. I could have talked about that, but
it wouldn’t yet have any weight.
So what we did at first was focus on the ground, on the
frontline, so to speak, actually dealing with people, trying to
witness to them, trying to help them understand True Parents
and to make the commitment to become a Unificationist. On
the frontline, we’ve discovered some methods that don’t work
and some methods that do. We’re in the process of creating
many systems. We’re using these to find methods that lead to
somewhat predictable outcomes.
We have an emotional, an intellectual and a willful por-
tion [of our character] and these resemble God. Taking out
the intellectual portion is a very big mistake. So, of course,
we approach things very analytically. It’s important to keep
in mind that rational, systematic approaches and the continu-
ation of authentic spirituality are like wings of a bird, so that
when people encounter the movement, they encounter not
just an organization but a culture of spirituality. That’s very
important.
When you look at conversion rates in religious studies, you
see that people convert to different religions when they’re in
their twenties or when they’re in their forties to fifties. When
they convert at the earlier age, when they’re in their early
twenties, in their colleges years, they convert mainly for intel-
lectual reasons—a certain philosophy or teaching is intellectu-
ally stimulating, it makes sense, it’s something they would like
to participate in.
When you look at the other demographic of people who
convert, those in their forties and fifties, it’s not intellectual.
They’re looking more for a community; they’re looking for a
place to raise their children, a trustable environment to safely
raise a family. It’s more emotional, though you cannot take out
the intellectual aspect.
A lot of excitement is developing because of the changes in
the church, but beyond structure, it is the responsibility of our
leaders to offer a deep and continuing spiritual environment,
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Hyung-jin nim stressed that inspiring organizational improvements need to happen in an environment where members maintain a
rich spiritual life; Left: A video outreach center opens in Seoul; (left to right) Hyung-jin nim, Kook-jin nim, translator Koh Ken-moon,
Dr. Yang Chang-shik, Mr. Bang Young-sup and Dr. Seuk Joon-ho; Right: Mrs. Erikawa Yasue (left rear corner) speaks at the opening

spiritual practice and ambiance This is critical.
In the Headquarters Church, we have ministry teams. We
have ministers that focus on, for example, spiritual discipline
and other ministers that focus on management, managing the
groups under them. We’ve found that they all have to focus
somewhat on management, but when more emphasis was
put on spiritual devotion, the people under them were more
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The woman leaders underneath them want to intro-
duce people to a minister who is serious about and continues
to practice a spiritual life. When that is not present, we found
they didn’t have as much confidence to bring people to those
leaders.
As religious leaders, the key is to focus on the spiritual,
devotional aspect. So, we’ve begun to delegate the other
responsibilities, like financial management or the allocation of
different types of ministries. Our twenty-three woman leaders
decide how they are to use their group’s assets. We give them
authority to do that. They also decide what strategies they
want to use.
When we’re able to trust the members more, it stimulates
a very positive environment. They are the ones that come up
with methods that work, or don’t work, who change methods
and are accountable as the people making decisions. That is a
great win for us, because that helps us focus on the devotional
practice.
It’s also very positive and very important that the mem-
bers have more say about who their leaders are. We’re very
enthusiastic about holding elections. We’ve already done that
in the Korean church, and we always encourage all the nations
to create electoral systems, create areas where you empower
members, give them strength and authority. When leaders do
that, it helps us spiritually, because as spiritual leaders, we

True Family members at post-Blessing Ceremony entertainment: (Right to left) Kook-jin nim, Hyung-jin nim, In-jin nim, Kwon-jin
nim and Sun-jin nim giving gifts of a crystal commemorating True Father's 90th Birthday to newlyweds. (back row) Kwon-jin nim's
wife Hwa-yun nim and Kook-jin nim's wife Ji-yea nim

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 (Above and left) In-jin nim, Kook-jin nim and Hyung-jin nim at
East Garden on February 2 during an interview by a reporter with
Korea's 시사In (Shi Sa In) magazine
have to be in the practice of giving away
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authority not cling-
ing, not attaching ourselves, to power. That helps us to stay
spiritually clean. Ridding ourselves of those kinds of things
is actually a great win for leaders. We see the participation of
members as a very positive trend for the Unification tradition.
I want to make it clear, because Father has been very clear
that the central focus is taking religious life seriously. I’ve lived
with monastics. I’ve lived with monks and priests of differ-
ent traditions, and I deeply respect them because their whole
focus is on the spiritual dimension of their particular tradition.
There is a very inspirational power there. It’s significant that
Buddhist leaders focus very strongly on the spiritual aspect,
making that a huge priority. Many people around the world in
our tradition are studying the growth of big Protestant church-
es. They learn that in the really successful ones, if you look at
the minister and pastoral teams, they are extremely into devo-
tion. They’re extremely into fasting. They’re extremely into
spiritual practice. It’s central to their success.
They’re not just into CEO-style management. One small-
group specialist gave the example of a marketing expert who
set out to make a very successful church, but it was an abys-
mal failure. He understood the systems, understood how to
present the ideas to people, but he didn’t understand that a
church is fundamentally a religious organization and has to
inspire people religiously and give them spiritual nourish-
ment. A church must have that center—a religious life of devo-
tion and sincerity. It probably seems obvious to everybody, but
it can be quickly forgotten when you’re trying to implement
strategies.
I hope nobody expects that after listening to lectures for
two days, you’ll go back to your countries, everything will be
solved and we’ll all have booming churches. That’s not going
to happen. But we hope you’ll understand the trajectory, the
direction in which the church development is moving.
We’ll also focus on aspects of the world temple. As we
speak of the practical elements of it, please remember it is a
real temple. We are very serious about the substantiation of the
world temple as a continuation of our spiritual tradition in our
fatherland. We hope you find the explanations illuminating.
Please forgive us for not visiting your countries. We’re
always praying for all your countries. But we also want to be
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responsible, be accountable and create the right combination
of elements that do promote healthy church growth.
With that being said, I’d like to close. Thank you all for
coming. We’re very happy that you’re all here. On True
Father’s birthday, let us really celebrate with True Parents and
give them the glory they deserve. I hope that that glory con-
tinues on, and that it shines through every single member in
your country. We want the focus to be on letting the members
shine, letting new members shine, letting people who join our
movement shine.
Thank you so much.
Heavenly Father, most beloved True Parents,
Thank You so much for this day that You have blessed upon
us. Father, today we have gathered in the beautiful mountains
of Korea, the mystical mountains in Your fatherland. Father,
here we are in the presence of True Parents, who are at Cheong
Jeong Gung. Father, we pray that You may bless them with
abundant health and divine protection, so that everywhere
they go, they may continue to shed Your light of love, Your
light of hope, Your light of inspiration and blessing. Father we
thank You for all the brothers and sisters that have gathered
here today, as national leaders, at this assembly. Father we pray
that You may bless them, You may bless their families and their
nations, and that we may become the leaders of the new era.
Father, that we can truly empty ourselves, lift others up, and
understand that that formula is Your formula. That formula is
truly the way of humility and practice. And in the end the way
of glorifying You. Father, thank You so much….
Illuminate our minds, Father, inspire our spirits, and allow
us to bring joy and peace to Your heart. Father we pray that
today, you may once again bless each one of these leaders here,
each of their children, that you may keep them in mind, and
each one of their relatives, and connected friends all over the
world. We pray that You may be with our Unification family
today. Father bless us, this day. Father we pray that over these
next couple of days, we can offer You glory and gratitude. We
pray this with an everlasting love, and most humble gratitude,
in the names of all our brothers and sisters around the world
together here as one. In True Parents’ names, Aju. TW
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Rev. Moon Hyung-jin

Jeongseong
and Meditation
These excerpts are from Could you please say something about meditation.
an interview that took Meditation is different from prayer. When we pray we are speaking to God. It’s a very
different feeling when you begin turning that view inward toward yourself. You’re
place in Hyung-jin nim's changing to an internal focus, beginning to watch your mind.
office on March 4. A big thing in meditation is that you have to begin to have dominion over the body
and the mind, particularly the body, because people don’t know how to control the body.
I’m using “control” to mean having mastery over the body. That is to say, as you learn
how to have patience, your mind starts disciplining yourself.
We practice remaining motionless for thirty minutes. That is very important. Usually
people are fidgeting, which distracts the mind. The first thing is to gain control over the
body, so that when you determine to stay still for thirty minutes, you are going to do it.
That level of discipline requires practice. You actually have to watch your entire body.
People don’t usually do that. The practice is very different from what we usually do. We
usually focus on other people or other things and on why they are the problem. Medita-
tion is very different in that you focus on yourself as the problem. It is because of you
that you don’t have unity. It’s a very different framework.
You are looking to discipline yourself. I don’t mean this in a negative way. When you
talk about dieting, for example, or exercise, people don't have a problem with the con-
cept of disciplining themselves. This is the same concept. In any profession, discipline is
absolutely critical. People on a diet have to discipline themselves to defeat the chocolate
chip cookie, for example! It requires discipline to have some level of success. It’s the same
when you start practicing how to quiet yourself. It requires that sort of avoiding-the-
chocolate-chip-cookie discipline to keep your body still. That’s the first process; as Father
says—make the body follow the mind, not the mind follow the body.
There are different kinds of meditation. We use concentration and we also use visual-
ization in some of the services. Many other meditations, especially with the hoonsa nims,1
the monastic practitioners, are very focused, concentrated prayer meditations.
We begin with the focus on “I am alive… Thank you.” People have fewer inhibitions
about those expressions. “I am alive” is something no one will deny, and once you realize
you are alive, you can give thanks. Some people have inhibitions about God, so at that
point they want to thank the universe or their parents, or whatever—we are connected
to many things. But slowly people have to mature as they start thanking those closer and
closer to God. That’s what we want to start seeing.
When we start practicing with the monastic practitioners, we focus, very seriously, on
True Parents. When we meditate, as we breathe in, we say, “God and True Parents.” We
actually call their names, and as we breathe out we say, “Thank you.” We continuously
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1  For “hoonsa nim,” Hyung-jin nim has used “teaching master.” Hoon (訓) as in “hoondokhae,”
can mean “to teach” or “to learn.” Sa (師) can mean “instructor.” Elders, such as retired pastors, can
become hoonsa only after graduating from a rigorous four-hundred-day monastic training program.

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offer thanks, offer devotions for an extended period of time,
usually thirty minutes. That is used (number one) to train the
mind, to concentrate it and make it strong and (number two)
to strengthen our core faith, which is in God and True Par-
ents—nothing else. That has a practical faith element to it. It
has to be strengthening our core faith.
Would you recommend we read about meditation?
There are many books about meditation. One could read
many of them, from ones on Dhyana meditation, which is a
concentration type, to mindfulness meditation which is more
the Buddhist style, Vipassana style, of meditation. There are
also many materials on visualization.
What is visualization for?
Usually visualization is helpful for beginners, because the
mind is so uncontrollable at that stage that it helps if they
focus on a moving image. Visualization is different from day-
dreaming in that with daydreaming, you’re not controlling the
environment. In visualization, you are creating a certain envi-
ronment and you’re holding it and moving through it. (If you
do a lot of training, you can hold a static picture, but it’s much
easier to create an image in which you’re moving.) Certain
ones are designed so that people can understand True Father’s
life course, the ordeals he had to go through and overcome,
and under what conditions he had to overcome them. So they
become experiential in form.
Thus, visualization is an experiential meditation form. It’s
a meditation where you are actually experiencing that circum-
stance. There’s research that shows that the brain functions
in the same way, the same brain neurons fire during a visu-
alization, as when someone actually experiences the event. A
certain type of brainwave occurred in people in World War II
or people in the Gulf War when they were in battle, in a very
strong firefight. When those same soldiers stopped fighting
and returned home, when they even reminisce about the fight-
ing, a particular, identifiable brain activity can be measured.
When visualizing those images, the same neurons fire. They
actually experience it again. You have probably had experi-
ences, something scary that hit you hard, where if you think
about it again, you can actually feel all those emotions again.
Visualization allows you to actually experience that event—
maybe not physically, but emotionally, psychologically, and
spiritually, as close as possible to the real thing. That’s why it’s
easy to start with visualization for people who don’t meditate;
it prepares the mind to enter a realm where they’re focused
and try to focus on a prayer such as “I am alive; thank you.”
When we go deeper into that prayer (for example, with our
professional monastic practitioners), it’s much more specific
and more strongly tied to faith. We say “God and True Par-
ents, Thank you.” Offering thanks. It has actually become a
deeper religious practice, a devotion toward True Parents. The
meditation itself does not become a practice in concentration
or self-discipline; it actually becomes a religious devotional
practice.
Could you speak about meditation in relation to prayer.
You pray for another person; you pray to God; that’s a very
important type of practice. Prayer is a major portion of our
practice. We also have the complementary practice of medita-
tion, which is often repetitious, disciplining the mind—“I’m
alive. Thank you.” Repeating this allows the mind to become
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stronger. It’s like developing endurance, because you’re
repeating the same activity and trying to hold it and focus and
be sincere in every single offering. It’s a different type of disci-
pline, but meditation is very helpful.
I always caution people who enter into meditation, because
meditation shouldn’t be seen as a way to personal power.
That’s not the purpose of meditation. Even when you look at
the big religions—Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity—the
purpose of meditation is not to become a more powerful
being. Because one sees progress, it’s tempting to believe one
is quite advanced, or like God. One can become arrogant
by doing meditation. When you see someone that’s become
arrogant when meditating, it’s a good sign that the person is
not practicing properly. When you find a genuine practitioner
of meditation, they have an incredible awareness. Arrogance
is unawareness of people around you and exuding self-ego
upon them. It’s an unawareness; you are exuding self-interest
and self-centeredness about you and have no awareness of
how this negative feeling is affecting people around you.
For the purpose of religious practice, prayer and medita-
tion are tools to use to improve, and fulfill the first, second
and third blessings God has given us. I have mentioned the
tools of prayer and humbling meditation—not ego-boosting
kinds of meditation, but ego-transcending, ego-destroying
meditation. Our true self can become an object partner to God,
become of equal value, but getting away from our ego, our
self-centered self, is very important for spiritual liberation.
That’s very important for spiritual maturity and freedom.
Meditation helps one do that, but it’s a path that requires
guidance. It’s a very subtle world, and one can quickly
become arrogant. It’s very important always to come back to
being a servant of servants, the point of humility.
You’ve sometimes spoken about breathing and its impor-
tance in meditation.
When we breathe in, we’re essentially breathing with nature.
Nature is breathing out, we’re breathing in; we’re breath-
ing out, nature’s breathing in. Our physical self is breathing
in something very precious, which is something we need,
oxygen; and we are breathing out something we don’t need,
carbon dioxide. That’s what plants need. On a physical level,
we can say that that’s true. Now, we start spiritual training
and try to receive the good qualities of God, the good qualities
that we want for ourselves—to be a more patient person, a
more loving person—I want to be more understanding—these
kinds of things.
We can mentally breathe in, reminding ourselves with
each breath that we want to incorporate these things into
our system. We want to take out the impatience. We want to
take out the anger. We’re using a mental tool; that’s one form
of meditation. You’re breathing in the qualities you want to
develop, and you’re breathing out the qualities you want to
eliminate. That’s one technique of meditation practice. On a
physical level, yes, we’re breathing in oxygen or breathing out
carbon dioxide, but when we start spiritualizing the training,
if we want to better ourselves, each physical breath coincides
with the spiritual qualities we desire. To become more mature
people—breathe that in. And when we exhale the negative
elements that we know are within us, that we want to get rid
of, spiritually, we set the conditions for that kind of process to
happen with the repetition of that practice. You begin to satu-
rate your mind with the awareness of trying to bring in good
qualities, trying to get rid of the bad qualities, and in that pro-
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 cess, you begin reducing the negative qualities and increasing
the positive qualities.
This could almost be like a visualization process.
It can be visualized in that you can actually see white energy
coming in, and all the blacks cells, the bad stuff that you want
to get rid of, breathing out. That’s one visualization technique.
Do you also advocate conditions using a time period when
we do our fasting, or bowing?
I have been doing this for many years. It’s part of my life
at this point; it’s not something I organize purely by time-
related conditions. It’s something that is intimately part of my
identity and that I will continue as a practice. Our monastic
practitioners will continue that serious jeongseong, and this
condition is not necessarily for a certain conditional object,
but for the continual practice of actualizing the teaching. It’s a
continual process of training that becomes a part of one’s life.
You mentioned particularly a physical aspect. When you
think of jeongseong are you thinking of bowing or medita-
tion?
Absolutely. Sure. Remember, the Chinese character for jeong-
seong is the character for “word,” plus the one for “become,”
so it has a very strong action orientation. The meaning of that
character, as Father expressed it, is “actualizing the word.” It's
strongly oriented toward action in that you have to become
your words, actualize your words.
I remember earlier times when we would set conditions to,
for example, not complain for a week.
That could be seen as jeongseong, sure!
Isn’t that more of a mental condition?
Well, you have to stop your lips! So it is physical.
You’d be trying to stop your thoughts as well.
That would absolutely be considered jeongseong. Sometimes
we practice from one o’clock to three o’clock in absolute
silence. The practice of silence is just like what you were say-
ing, not complaining. It’s silence; it’s controlling your mind to
stop being tempted to say this or that, to not have the pleasure
of saying it. You’re training yourself, disciplining yourself and
that’s seen as an attitude, it is seen as a practice of jeongseong.
Through the jeongseong practice, are you setting a standard,
an example that ideally everyone should follow as a blessed
member?
No, absolutely not. The path I walk is more like the hoonsa
nims. It’s a very specialized, monastic path. We don’t expect
the general membership to take up that kind of practice.
You would encourage us to try it, though.
Yes, sure! However, for us, those who are following this
hoonsa nim path, it’s our full-time occupation. Other people
are usually working, living their family life and many other
things. This is our specialized work, so I wouldn’t say this is a
standard that everybody has to follow.
If someone who’s working and has a family and faith, and
maintains basic faith, which is coming to the church and sup-
porting the church community by tithing, that’s really put-
ting your work investment into your faith investment. You’re
participating in service, contributing to the church community
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physically and contributing your talents, whether that be
helping kids with English, or giving Divine Principle lectures,
and you’re attending True Parents in your daily life—in the
sense that you carry their photo in your wallet, you greet
them, or take at least one time a day when you remember
them. We believe that’s basic faith. As long as people are
doing that, we should consider them Unificationists.
One problem with our movement is that we have had an
extremely high standard for all members that was closer to a
ministerial standard, which is why we had so many fall away.
We weren’t able to accept genuine lay members. We have to
acknowledge their contribution and their participation in the
community. They’re not necessarily specialists in a ministerial
role, but that doesn’t reduce their role. They are one of the key
ingredients to the church community.
Basic faith is a great contribution to the church community.
There are many members who don’t practice even basic faith.
If one wants to increase that, depending on one’s schedule,
and one’s heart, one may want to do things on the next level.
But we should not criticize people who are practicing basic
faith, who are coming to church, who are volunteering, who
are attending True Parents, who are tithing. We should not
think they are not good members or that they are falling off
the standard; they are the standard.
Anything above that is a professional occupation; it’s a
ministerial level or monastic level. That’s a very different level
of religious commitment. If you can do the basic faith as I just
described it, you are an “A” lay-member. That’s not less than
a minister. If there aren’t people like that, the church doesn’t
exist. That has to be our attitude. Lay members have to be our
majority. We have to value their immense contribution.
It’s very important for the ministers, and for the monastic
practitioners, to understand that the lay members are essen-
tial—that we need people who are naturally subjugating the
world at the same time that they are helping to maintain the
church. We have to see their providential significance as equal;
people who are holding jobs and working are also contribut-
ing to the church community. They are naturally subjugating
the world by being professional in their field. So we have to
see that as a providential mission—just as Kook-jin nim was
designated to run the businesses. That’s not separate from
God’s providence, it’s central. The two groups are synergistic,
so the religious side should not get into the habit of thinking,
oh, that’s less. That is just as important. The religious prac-
titioners cannot think that the lay members are less because
they just practice basic faith. That would be irresponsible and
arrogant.
I really don’t want blessed kids to beat themselves up if
they work at Samsung, or something like that. They should be
proud of that! They’re doing work that’s just as providential
as what we are doing when we practice every day. They’re
winning over society and they’re changing the perspective of
Unification professionalism.
At the same time, our religious professionals are improv-
ing. They’re continuing to train themselves, but they have to
respect the lay members and acknowledge their contribution.
I usually call lay members who are doing basic faith "사회굴복
자" [the ones subjugating society]. The religious professionals
are not doing that. They’re doing the work of caring for those
in our community and the spiritual work of moving the spirit
world, that kind of work. But the actual moving of society is
being done by the lay members. So, we cannot diminish their
providential purpose; they are absolutely essential. TW
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 International President’s Message
Rev. Moon Hyung-jin

Inherit the True Love of God

We are used to thinking that in order to
join our church someone has to study the
Principle for several days. But what if
someone we meet just asks for the main
point? Hyung-jin nim recommends an
approach Kook-jin nim uses. His comments
on this subject are extracted from various
speeches, including one to continental and
national representatives on May 1.

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eople actually don’t understand that this is
the liberation age, the age of liberation and
complete release,1 the age after the coming of
heaven. That you and I are living in this age is
a tremendous blessing from Heaven. True Par-
ents began the liberation age and True Parents have said
we have to establish Cheon Il Guk by 2013.
True Parents are the ones who revealed the Divine
Principle. The Divine Principle is actually extremely sim-
ple. It’s not complex.
Kook-jin hyung is very good at witnessing. Two
months ago, I asked him how he witnesses so well.
He’s been witnessing to people in the top companies in
Korea—to accountants, lawyers and CEOs. We’ve been
dreaming about doing this for ages. I asked him, How
in the world do you do it? And he told me, I teach them
Divine Principle in one minute.
You’re supposed to be laughing at that, because it isn’t
possible to teach Divine Principle in a minute. [Laughter]
It’s such a systematic theology. My professor at Harvard
for the New Testament, Helmut Koester—a very famous
scholar, one of the top in the field—respected Divine Prin-
ciple for being such a systematic theology. How do you
teach such complex material in a minute? Actually, not
even in a minute; Kook-jin hyung actually said, “in less
than a minute.”
The whole Divine Principle includes the purpose of
creation, the four-position foundation, the Fall, restora-
tion— Abraham’s course, Jesus, the parallels of history.
How do you teach that in a minute? It’s impossible, I said
He said, I’ll show you how to do it. It’s quite easy.
Actually, I can teach Divine Principle in one sentence.
One sentence? Are you kidding me? Father’s speeches
fill over a thousand volumes.
Continued on page 16....International President’s Message
1 Seokbang: Sometimes rendered in English as "complete inner
freedom."

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 True Parents' Golden Wedding

Right: True Parents receiving flowers from their grandchildren, Shin-wol nim (Heung-jin nim and Hoon-sook nim's daughter) and
Shin-joon nim (Hyung-jin nim and Yeon-ah nim's son), at the Cheon Jeong Peace Palace on April 19; Left: Kook-jin nim, Sun-jin nim
(pictured) and Hyung-jin nim, with their spouses, in turn, served True Parents tea on the same occasion (see page 18)
Continued from page 2....International President’s Message That’s the Principle. It’s very simple.
He said, one phrase covers ninety-five percent of Father’s That’s what True Parents have done. True Parents have
teachings: “Inherit the true love of God.” inherited the true love of God. They have inherited God’s
Look at it this way. The American version of the Divine divinity, and because of that, they have become His object part-
Principle is 411 pages long, 350-plus pages of which cover the ner and they have liberated Him from suffering.
Fall and restoration. Adam and Eve were meant to inherit God’s true love,
What is the Fall? It’s inheriting false love, not God’s true become equal partners and through that establish God’s fam-
love. It’s the opposite of inheriting the true love of God. ily, nation, world and cosmos.
What is restoration? Restoration is a very long way of After I thought about this, we had a little discussion. For
explaining the foundation someone needs in order to inherit thousands of years, different religions have understood God
the true love of God. It’s actually very simple. The purpose of to be almighty, omnipotent, the Creator of the universe. The
creation is for two human beings to be able to inherit the true whole issue in Christianity is that God is great and humanity
love of God, to become His object partner and to live in joy is sinful; there’s a huge divide between God and us. A person
and create the kingdom. It’s very simple—inherit the true love cannot become like God. Divinity is unknown, unknowable
of God. That’s what he said. and separate from humanity. We are lucky to be able to wor-
True Father defines true love. It’s just not a love that we feel,ship such a powerful and strong deity. He can help us.
not a passionate love. True Father defines true love as God’s But then Kook-jin hyung said, Why don’t you turn it
essence, His divinity. He defines true love as a selfless love that around and think about it from God’s perspective? God’s
can bring even Satan to voluntary surrender. If you inherit that almighty. He’s all-powerful, all the children worship Him and
as Unificationists, you will inherit God’s divinity. You will be praise Him, but from God’s perspective, He’s lonely. He’s all
His object partner and be able to give and receive true love. alone—almighty, all-powerful, all alone. Why? No human
being has ever been capable of getting close to Him or under-
standing His divinity.
What True Parents have done is phenomenal. By inherit-
ing God’s true love and not Satan’s false love, which is self-
centered and self-serving, they’ve become equal partners with
God. Thus, we say they’ve liberated God. He has an equal
partner to whom He can speak, with whom He can share His
heart. That’s why they’re the King and Queen of Peace. And
that’s why it is the age of liberation.
That connects to everything in Divine Principle. The four-
position foundation—how can you set up a four-position foun-
dation without inheriting the true love of God? If you inherit
false love, you’re not going to set up the right four-position
foundation. Three kingships—if you inherit false love, you’re
going to set up the wrong set of three kingships. The four great
realms of heart—you cannot set up the parental, husband—
wife, sibling or children’s realms of heart if you don’t inherit
God’s true love, because all those relationships are supposed
to exist in true love, not selfish, self-centered satanic love.
On May 1, Kook-jin nim and Hyung-jin nim present a trophy and “One Family under God”—this motto is used a lot. In order
medals to True Parents for their success in founding the Round Ball to establish one family under God, however, we must inherit
Tournament (see page 18 for explanation) God’s true love. If we inherit false love, we will not create that

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 The Temple in Progress
A Cheon Bok Gung Update
In the last issue, we included Hyung-jin nim’s explanation that the Headquarters Church is moving and
will become the growth-stage Cheon Bok Gung, scheduled to open at the beginning of next year. Work to
reconstruct the building’s exterior and redoing the interior is beginning mid-June and is slated for comple-
tion by December. The site is in an area of Seoul that has developed greatly in recent years. The building is
situated close to the National Museum complex and the Yongsan Family Park.
The basic structure of the building will remain the same, but the interior and exterior will be completely
renewed (Below: the proposed design of the sanctuary area of the temple and the building exterior). The
building will include smaller rooms for prayer and meditation and offices.
Although the companies selected are not connected to our church, they were judged to have grasped the
vision for the temple well. Company representatives were even invited to present their plans during the
services at the Headquarters Church. Funds for this remodeling are currently being raised, and members'
donations are eagerly sought and will be gratefully received (Details through your national headquarters).

family. We can connect every single teaching we have in the
church, especially in Divine Principle, back to “Inherit the true
love of God.”
I feel hopeful, because now we can explain it more quickly
and with more clarity. When we do that, people we are wit-
nessing to can gain confidence in our teaching more quickly
and can understand True Parents’ role more quickly. That
becomes a foundation to go into detailed explanations once
what the Principle is basically about has been made clear.
If you listen to the Christian message—“If you believe in
Jesus, you will be saved and go to heaven”—it’s very simple.
If you believe in the Buddha’s teachings, you can reach the
highest level. In Islam, be obedient to God and you will be
rewarded; it’s also a very simple teaching. Then you have dif-
ferent practices that are related to that. It’s very simple.
Kook-jin hyung is able to explain what we believe quickly
and efficiently. When you actually witness to somebody, you
all know you don’t have so much time to speak about the
teachings. Usually you’re trying to create a relationship, so in
the process you’re talking about other things, such as family
issues. The person might suddenly ask, Hey, what do you guys
actually believe? When that question hits us, we’ve been puz-
zled about what to say. We know we believe something about
the Messiah, about Rev. Moon. We know we believe something
about true families, and about love, and about unification and
peace. We haven’t understood how that all ties together, and
we haven’t been able to explain it very quickly.
We’ve created a lot of theology, but witnessing isn’t the time
for complex theology. It requires expressing our teachings in a
nutshell, very quickly. This is a very different type of commu-
nication. When people ask us, we now have an answer: Inherit
the true love of God. That’s True Parents’ message. That love is
selfless. True love can bring your worst enemies to natural sur-
render. If you live like that, inheriting true love, you will create
true families. You will establish an individual four-position
foundation, the second blessing, you will be the owner of
creation, the third blessing. It’s all predicated on God’s true
love.  TW

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H Spiritual Power for Church Growth

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In the following excerpts from extensive remarks he made to those who accompanied
him to a hilltop in Seoul for his early morning meditation, bows and prayer, Hyung-jin
nim outlined his vision for a movement supported by the devoted efforts (jeongseong)
of a dedicated group of members. The concept of this core group, hoonsa, sprang from
Hyung-jin nim’s concern for the future of pastors in Korea (some of whom are early
followers) who face mandatory retirement as the churches in Korea are consolidated.

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s there a way in which early members, now in retirement, can devote themselves deeply to God’s

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providence and will for the remainder of their lives? There are very good people, such as Seo Yoo-ahm,
who has been a church leader from the early days. But because he is sixty-five years old, he would now
retire and become a general member. Yet retirement seems an inadequate step for someone who has fol-
lowed such a path in life.
I have thought seriously about this. After praying about it for several months, an answer suddenly came in
January.1 The completion stage is from 2009 to 2013.2 The answer came at the very beginning of the comple-
tion stage.
The title of hoonsa3 may be unfamiliar. But through the efforts of those who qualify to be hoonsa, our church
will surely rise to the world level. Our church leadership here at present would not be able to lead religious
people on the world level.
Church leaders are like masters degree holders, and hoonsa are like the doctoral degree holders.

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Returning to their hometown and relaxing after retiring is not the path by which church leaders can
become hoonsa. True Father has not retired or stepped back, has he? When you reach sixty-five, there is now
the opportunity to begin anew.

A new beginning after a long career

Right up until you go to the spirit world, you can devote your life completely to Heaven. You can offer jeong-
seong, fight it out, deny yourself, and follow the ascetic path of a monastic for True Parents’ sake. However,
because you follow this difficult path, you will rise to the highest position. You will have mastered yourself.
After going to the lowest place, you will rise to the highest. Through taking the most difficult path, you will
find yourself marvelously elevated.
Not everyone will be able to qualify as hoonsa. There may be church leaders who do not qualify. You have

a
to pass through a four hundred-day course; it’s a four hundred-day test. You must gather your resolve in
order to accomplish this. Those who are of a mind to follow this ascetic path will find joy, gratitude and honor
in becoming hoonsa. This is not a path for those who are merely interested in the title or for those who prefer
to remain at home and watch television. It is for those who can truly feel the joy and gratitude of the training
course. It’s training that lasts until you ascend to the spirit world.
This is a way for the early church leaders to have a victorious life. Their sons and daughters will support
their parents during the program. Let’s gather our sincere devotion to support our fathers and mothers in this

1  Hyung-jin nim received the answer from God while praying in preparation for the early Sunday service on January 25, the day before
New Year’s Day on the lunar calendar.
2  He is referring to the formation, growth and completion periods during the twelve years from 2000 to January 2013.
3  The Chinese character for “hoon” is the same as that in hoondokhae, and can be translated as “teaching.”

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 Mrs. Baek Seon-ja, referring to the day Hyung-jin nim received an answer from God about what
recently retired pastors might do, reminded him, “Hyung-jin nim, in the early hours of that day you
suddenly called out, ’The way has opened up! The path has appeared!’ You were going urgently back
and forth. You looked so happy as you ran in and out of your tiny office, genuinely joyful and excited.”

last stage, the completion stage, on the way of God’s will. For ward.
the sons and daughters, it’s a concrete act of filial piety. Up until Recently I was in America. At East Garden, there is a church
now, our parents have raised us and put us through university; brother who has worked very sacrificially on the upkeep of the
now let’s do something for them. Such a family culture is emerg- buildings for thirty years. He told me he had originally wanted
ing. to be a priest, as many of his relatives were. He was planning to
I’m saying that the first-generation era is not over. This way become a priest when he met and joined our church. He is now
bodes success for the sons and daughters, for the church lead- sixty years old. He feels that his physical strength is waning
ers, for the families involved—and for our church. For the sake and he should prepare for when he goes to the spirit world. He
of church development we are cutting down on expenses, so wants to be able to offer more jeongseong. He was very excited
the sons and daughters will support their parents on the hoonsa to hear about the hoonsa program.
program, which is both their sincere offering and helpful for the I have to think about this in relation to those who have not
church. completed thirty-three years of church leadership. If someone
When I explained this idea to Kook-jin nim, his response was is sixty now, they would have to lead a church until they are
“Oh good. Very good!” ninety-three before they could begin hoonsa training!...
We need a huge foundation of jeongseong at Cheon Bok
A revival of the church Gung. There is a need for people who make this their lifestyle.
We are working to develop our church, as you know. We are In the future, at places such as the Cheongpyeong training
developing a system, seeking the best methods, and creating center, conditions must be made to protect True Parents, don’t
programs based on a scientific approach. But in so doing, if we you think? Such places could incorporate training for widows
lose the spiritual aspect, we will just become like a business. who are focusing on prayer (hoon-nyeo) and hoonsa. If that were
There must be core personnel who maintain a genuine spiritual possible, many members would want to go there to train. They
lifestyle. Without such people, religion descends into practical would truly be places of God’s grace. If there were hoonsa and
science and methodology. If the lifestyle of sincere devotion dis- hoon-nyeos all over the world, what a heart-warming situation
appears, the church will become a business venture. I am saying that would be!
that the hoonsa nims will revive the church. They will save our We should even make special clothing, so that whenever peo-
church. They will continue to strengthen the root and center of ple see the hoonsas, they will know this person is a practitioner
our church. from the Unificationist tradition. The path of an ascetic is quite
To put it simply, these hoonsa nims are the ones following the different from church leadership.
steepest path of asceticism. They don’t have anything for them- Everyone, no matter who he is or how great he is, will inevi-
selves. They cast everything aside and go this way, but because tably bow his head to those who are following this way of train-
they leave everything behind, they gain ing and asceticism. Hoonsa will not need
everything. Because they follow the path to be able to speak well, as a church
that involves the most suffering, they leader does. Even without saying a
become wonderful people. Because they word, their devout, austere lifestyle will
go to the lowest position, they ascend surely compel others to bow their heads.
to the highest. In fully investing them- Even the nation’s president would surely
selves in a course on which they must respect them.
die to themselves they can save the As these people with a completely
Unificationist community. different lifestyle emerge, they should
wear distinctive clothing. They will be
The power of a focused spiritual like Jesus or Buddha walking on earth.
tradition They must be able to give sense of that
Hoonsas will be those who have first to others.
been church leaders for at least thirty- Even as the church is still developing,
three years. Then, they must offer the the hoonsa nims will be able to guide
four hundred days of jeongseong without renowned people of the world. They will
missing even three days. As you know, also be able to teach young church lead-
our vice-president [Rev. Lee Dong-han] ers—not by being arrogant or by taking
and our church leaders here have been power, but by providing wise spiritual
following this way already for many leadership. Can young people who
months…. have just graduated from university do
The elder leaders have certainly this kind of work? Can those who have
endured hardship. We can by no means graduated from the church leaders’ basic
say that the era of precious people such training do this? They cannot.
as Rev. Seo Yoo-ahm has come to an end. Facing page: Rev. and Mrs. Seo Yoo-ahm are The early church leaders should not
I have prayed about this a great deal. inducted as hoonsa; Above: Rev. and Mrs. just retire to their hometowns. There is
Finally God has showed us the way for- Kim Yong-ha in the hoonsa uniform still a much work to be done!  TW

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 International President’s Message
Rev. Hyung-jin Moon

The Power
to Witness

F
On September ather asked us to visit different cities in America.1 We were originally scheduled to
come back to Korea within two days when Father said, “You must go on a tour and
10, Hyung-jin nim show unity with True Parents.” He did this for two express purposes. The first was
spoke with Today’s to call for unity with True Parents. Everyone must unite with True Parents, the eter-
nal center. And secondly, to ask for prayer, to pray for that unity with True Parents.
World about the That is why Father directed us to do the tour.
message of renewal Although Father appointed me international president, for me it is making our success
tangible that is the key. That is, creating a real example, proof that the Unification Church can
he is bringing to not only be relevant but can also succeed tremendously. No matter how much we theorize,
it doesn’t do anything in terms of advancing the church, or the faith. The only way those are
members and non- advanced is by creating real results. That is why we are focusing on that in Korea; we are focus-
members alike ing on the goals Father has given of 21,000 members and then 210,000 members.
and his hopes Faith in prophesies regained
for a revival in Our members have been so beaten down by persecution that they could not see themselves
standing alongside the greatest world religions. We say our mission is to be greater even than
witnessing that the other religions.
he sees as key to We have lost the sense of faith in the prophesies that have been spoken over us, and that’s
what I talked about when I spoke in the United States. I used the example of Hannah and
the future of the Peninnah—how Hannah came to rely on God; how, in the end, God used her, gave her incred-
church movement. ible blessing, and how she fulfilled her destiny.
Among the children she bore, the first was Samuel, who eventually anointed King Saul and
King David, of the chosen nation. So I told the members that I believe we members of the Unifi-
cation Church are starting to remember our name. I was really preaching the heavenly gospel.
For a long time we have not had anything comparable to the Christian Gospel, or anything
that could surpass that gospel, because it was such a powerful gospel—Jesus died for you and
he was resurrected to show his victory over death. God sent his only son. It’s such a powerful
story.
We had come to the point where we were comparing Father to patriots, to peace-loving lead-
ers. We were reaching the limits of our own explanation of Father, of how we were portraying
him to the world.
I had struggled with these things for years, studying different theological views, and when
I reached my limit and began weeping and praying, that was when Father sent the dream and
vision of the seven deaths and resurrections. When he sent that, I realize what kind of love
we had been talking about, what Father had actually done for us throughout his life—seven
deaths and resurrections, continually dying for the sake of the children. True Parents were
Continued on page 21....International President’s Message
1  Father had originally called Hyung-jin nim to the United States for the celebration of Pal Jeong Shik on
August 31.

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Continued from page 2....International President’s Message
willing to do something so unimaginable out of the goodness
and purity of their true love. When I realized that, when Father
showed me that, I realized what Father had done in his life,
which we had been unaware of because we had not opened our
spiritual eyes. Just as, if you are a Christian, you can’t under-
stand how much Jesus loved the world if you don’t open your
spiritual eyes. If you look only with physical senses, you will see
a Middle Eastern man who like many others was crucified as a
criminal and died. Only when you open your spiritual eyes, do
you realize Jesus died for your sins.
We were not doing this as Unificationists either. We had
secularized Father and had not understood his true value. We
called him the Peace King, but there was always some feeling of
inadequacy in our explanation. There wasn’t continuity with the
mission of Jesus Christ.
Grace that includes everyone
When Father threw his body into the hands of those torturers,
he said, these people are my children;2 I take responsibility for
them as their parent. I realized that each time he went through
one of the seven deaths, he descended into hell for us—to free us
of our family sin, our tribal sin, our national sin, our world-level
sin and the collective spiritual sin our ancestors created. True
Parents’ love is so comprehensive that it embodies the trueness
of God as the parent. Because of that inheritance, they were able
to be resurrected over the grave, over death and over hell, again
and again. This is the resurrection power alive in True Parents
when we believe in True Parents, when we obey True Parents,
when we follow them as their disciples and as children are
reborn.
True Parents’ grace is comprehensive. In Christian theology,
you are either cast into hell or allowed into heaven. Yet True
Parents have allowed us to move into Cheon Il Guk; they have
done that through the sacrifice of their own holy bodies and
souls. Because of that grace, we can enter Cheon Il Guk. Because
we are aware of the spirit world, God is not our judge in Cheon
Il Guk. It is we, and our ancestors, who are our judges. Even
though we’re given the grace to get into Cheon Il Guk, we can
still be chastised or judged by our ancestors. If you received the
2  Hyung-jin nim has said that this means all human beings, even those
who oppose True Parents.
As international church president, Hyung-jin nim is invited to important social functions. These open witnessing opportunities.
Here, Hyung-jin nim and Yeon-ah nim among those paying their respects to the late president of Korea Kim Dae-jung
September–October 2009
grace of eternal life and realized that True Parents did that for
you, but fell back into sin, your ancestors will judge you. That’s
why Father tells us about the importance of understanding the
spirit world.
This helps you understand what type of love Jesus was to
have inherited and why there is continuity between Jesus, as
God’s son, and True Parents, who carry on and complete that
mission, and the liberation of Christ. Through understanding the
seven deaths and resurrections, you not only see the discontinui-
ties between what Jesus Christ accomplished and what True Par-
ents have accomplished but also you are also awakened to the
continuities of how the providence has reached fruition through
the victory of True Parents and true love.
Completion of the eight stages
The seven deaths and resurrections are connected to the eight
stages—individual, family, tribe, society, nation, world, cosmos
and God. In the ideal world of the kingdom, from the Principle
perspective, when we reach maturity and perfection as indi-
viduals, we are supposed to live in God’s direct dominion. We
are given that incredible gift when we mature properly. The
perfection of the eight stages represents the erasing of sins and
the indemnity that had to be paid on all those different levels—
through the seven deaths and resurrections—reaching the level
at which we can be with God in the direct dominion, which is
what we call the kingdom.
Because of True Parents’ incredible grace and love, we’re
able to inherit that and move to the eighth stage. That is beyond
comprehension. That’s incredible. That’s the perfection of eight
stages. [In Korean:] “I am living in the love and victory of True
Parents—thank you!”
It’s so exciting to finally have a narrative that portrays the
greatness of True Parents. We’re showing why they have inher-
ited a greater love. That’s what we couldn’t do as a church, and
that’s why we weren’t confident to share the gospel.
In the Acts of the Apostles, John and Peter are prophesying,
they’re witnessing, they’re being persecuted. But their theologi-
cal rock is the passion narrative—that Jesus had died for their
sins, resurrected on the third day and was the son of God who
was victorious. That was the simple theological rock they had,
and which they ran out into the streets to witness with. That
small theological narrative is how they completed the Jewish
scripture.
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 When we see True Parents' spiritual value, we want to witness. Hyung-jin nim, Yeon-ah nim, Ji-ye nim and others witness in a
park in Seoul on September 18. Inset: The pamphlet they used to explain our faith features the cover of Father's memoirs.
The Completed Testament is similarly able to incorporate the
Old and New Testaments into its realm. With the seven deaths
and resurrections, true love theology, and the true love of True
Parents, it is a very exciting truth. It makes us want to witness.
Witnessing to a Christian lady
I was recently speaking with a senior lady at a Christian
Church—I have met a group of them four times now, and this
time we had dinner together. This was the first time I was able
to explain our theology.
I said that if you want to understand Jesus, the role of Christ,
you have to understand why God created human beings in the
first place. He didn’t create them just so they could mess up and
then have Jesus come to save them. He had a purpose for creat-
ing us.
That’s why I spoke about the first chapter, the Creation. I just
explained that God initially wanted children who could inherit
His love. He wanted to set up a true give-and-receive relation-
ship of true love, in which that could be inherited by His chil-
dren.
I explained that we see the Fall as the inheritance of selfish,
false love—symbolized by the covering of the lower parts; and
that we see that Jesus’ mission was to bring the kingdom.
In Matthew 6, we read, “Thy kingdom come; thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.” In that same vein, Jesus was
the one to bring the kingdom for the world, to bring true peace
and unity, to create the kingdom of God, not only in the temples
and in the hearts of men, but also in the real world. I explained
to this lady that we understand that Jesus is the second Adam.
And Jesus was supposed to inherit, just as Adam was, the true
love of God, the parental heart, but he was opposed and perse-
cuted. They didn’t understand the value of the Lord, and he was
killed. I explained that just as we see Jesus—who resurrected,
descended into hell to save souls and works with the Holy Spirit
in the spiritual dimension—we, as Unificationists, also see True
Parents. We see them as completing Jesus’ mission.
In John 15:13, Jesus defines the greatest love. I quoted the
scripture and I told her that we believe Jesus came to True
Father and asked him to fulfill his mission, because the blessing
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of the chosen nation left Israel when Jesus was killed—and that
blessing had to move to a prepared nation, which was Korea.
When Jesus came to True Father and asked him to fulfill his
mission, to do that was the hardest thing for Father to accept.
But Father walked the course, and I explained the seven deaths
and resurrections to her. I explained how True Father went
through seven deaths, that he died for us, and went to hell for
us, not only once, but over and over again; that is our True Par-
ents’ heart, the parental heart of God.
I explained all this to this evangelical lady, a deacon in her
church—she is even a friend of the first lady.3 She listened, and
immediately she said she wanted to attend a two-day workshop
and listen to more.
Jesus’ love was incredible and it changed the history of the
world—over two thousand years. I told her that because of the
greater love that True Parents inherited, the parental heart, the
Unification Movement will now change the course of history. I
told her that straight out. She just listened and said she wants to
listen to lectures now. She signed up.
Opening our spiritual eyes
We want to witness, we want to share the incredible reality of
what True Parents have done for the world. When you under-
stand the seven deaths and resurrections, true love theology, you
have a natural desire to share and witness because your spiritual
eyes open and you can see the workings of the spirit.
What we are finding is that people are so ready, especially
Christians. They really are ready. They love Jesus; once they
realize that we also love Jesus and that Jesus had the mission
of inheriting the true love of God (although it was cut short
through no fault of his own) and that his mission is now being
actualized in True Parents, something challenges them and
makes them want to open up more. The spirit is moving.
Even though True Parents have done that for us, it’s their
principle of true love to give and give and then forget. Even
though Father gave his body to be tortured, his soul to be
ripped, for our sake, he forgot about it. Only when the children
open their spiritual senses and realize the value of the course
3  Kim Yoon-ok, wife of Lee Myung-bak, the South Korean president
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 Father speaks about his published speeches (July 13 at Hoondokhae)
If you look back, the dates when I spoke all these words are recorded with the text. This is what
I have spoken during the ninety years of my life. If you can read this content with the same
kind of heart that I had when I was speaking, you can be one in heart with me. So remember
those dates, and if you pray and read while thinking about how I was living at that time, the
state of my heart and my circumstances at those times will be revealed to you spiritually.
the Parents have walked, can the children truly be free. Just as
young children don’t understand the value of what their parents
have done for them, when they mature, they see its value.
For me, one of the biggest questions was how to portray True
Parents and how to share with the world their incredible deeds
in a way that is even more inspiring and more faith-inspiring
than those of Jesus Christ, the Buddha or Mohammed—these
world saints. We had explained Father as an educator, or a
religious leader, the head of a conglomerate, or a peace activist,
patriot, promoter of Korean culture—but these never did justice
to True Parents’ real victories.
It is something I had deeply struggled with. What is it that
Unificationism has that is going to unite the world from the par-
ent position? No one I asked could give me a confident answer.
Yet if I can’t answer this question, I don’t have any identity. That
goes for the movement too if we can’t answer the question of
why these prophesies have been spoken over us in the way they
have—that we will unite the world, that we will build the king-
dom, that the Unification Church will become the parent of all
faiths.
Only when Father opened my spiritual eyes—when he sent
me that vision in the spirit, and I saw the seven deaths and
resurrections—did I gain confidence that, yes, we can do this.
We can fulfill the mission of Christianity, we can bring together
world religions with a parental heart; we can stand as the center
of unity as the parent.
When you understand the seven deaths and resurrections,
you gain a sense of the texture of true love and what someone
with that heart will do for the children even though those chil-
dren are stained with sin and deserve to be in hell.
That’s why we had to open our spiritual eyes, to see the true
value of what the True Parents have done. This has revived my
own faith.
This is really what we were conveying on the tour Father
asked us to do in America; I spoke about the seven deaths and
resurrections, the good news!
Tangible victory is empowering
For me, my mission is all about serving True Parents; we’re here
to serve True Parents, we’re here to glorify their names, to glori-
fy our church as the center of the Holy Spirit, as the place where
God can dwell and do His work. We’re here to unite different
religions and the world, to do the blessing, etc. Our mission is
that.
We need to make results. I don’t spend all my energy doing
tours. I focus on making tangible results, so that when we go
somewhere we can talk about how we have witnessed and
made results on the ground; what kind of organizational chang-
es we have made to create—within one year—growth from
14,000 to 18,000 core members and a doubling of donations in
the same time.4
4  For more on developments in Korea, see “The Vine Shall Yield Its
Fruit,” on page 34
September–October 2009
We couldn’t have done this without Kook-jin hyung. He
was the one who put together the Task Force Team to research
and find the best way to reorganize the church to create results.
We’ve done the reorganization and we have had great suc-
cess. The church has grown for the first time in thirty years; it’s
grown to 18,000 core members. That is tangible result.
We like to make results, because in the end that is what lasts
and in the end what glorifies True Parents. We have big witness-
ing goals here in Korea. We need to complete those things to
show the worldwide Unification Church that no longer do we
have to say it is impossible.
We really had become slaves to Peninnah, believing her lies
and chastisements and that we’re going to lose and fail and
never grow and have children. This was her condemnation of
Hannah. But Hannah had to believe, “No. God will bless me.
I will have children.” And she had to pray. The Unification
Church is beginning to pray again. We’re beginning to remem-
ber who we are. We’re beginning to find our faith again. We‘re
beginning to believe in our prophesies. We are standing up
again.
Because we’re doing that, the Holy Spirit is coming. The
gift of the Holy Spirit is starting to emerge. We heard testimo-
nies of it emerging in In-jin nuna’s ministry already—people
being healed by holy fire. We have already heard of it here at
the Headquarters Church in Korea—the holy fire, people being
healed. We see the workings of the Holy Spirit. It’s coming. In a
major way, just as with the Apostles, who worked with holy fire
and the Holy Spirit. It’s coming again.
That’s why—in terms of inspiring the Unification Church
worldwide—the most important thing for us to do is to show
results in Korea, where nobody thought it was possible, where
we have huge opposition from evangelical Christianity, and
where it’s thus not necessarily the best terrain. Even though the
church had been thoroughly persecuted, and the media had not
been positive, these things have turned around one by one.
So achieving the goal of the 21,000-member temple is crucial.
What this will do for all Unificationists is say “Yes, we can do
this!” We can be relevant. We can have a worldwide impact. We
will see thousands and tens of thousands of new members there.
That kind of movement of the Holy Spirit has not happened
in the entire history of the Unification Church, except for the
time when Father was directly ministering, such as in America
in the early days when there was exponential growth.
But we are not focusing only on growth, but on caring for
those members too, so that they can grow in faith. We have had
the situation where we grew fast yet lost most of the members.
That’s why we have a professional management team and man-
agement structure. In that way, when we grow quickly like that,
we will manage it.
Once we show we can do this, what we are showing is
“Throw off the grave clothes and put on the praise clothes!”
because we’re getting ready to glorify True Parents. That’s what
it’s about.  TW
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 International President’s Message
Rev. Moon Hyung-jin

Inaugural
Address
as UPF
Chairman
On November 18, Moon Hyung-jin was inaugurated as International
Chairman of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF). Following is a
translation of his inaugural speech, which he delivered in Korean:

F
irst, I would like to first express my deepest gratitude to God and the True
Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind. I would also like to sincerely thank,
especially, my older brother Hyun-jin hyung and Rev. Kwak Chung-hwan for
the efforts they have made in the development of UPF. I am also grateful to Dr.
Thomas Walsh, secretary-general of UPF, to Mr. Taj Hamad, secretary-general
of WANGO, and to the UPF staff members representing each nation who are working so
hard. Please let’s offer them a warm round of applause! [Applause]
To tell the truth, Father instructing me to take responsibility and lead UPF was a shock
for me. I feel sorry in front of True Parents that I am to take this position because I am still
quite young, and lacking in many ways.
I am the seventh son and the eleventh child in the True Family. I had older brothers and
sisters attending college while I was still a toddler. For those reasons, I had never enter-
tained the thought that I would be given a public responsibility to fulfill. Nevertheless,
one day Father began assigning me to public positions. I feel sorry and that I still lack the
necessary maturity, but I will submit to God’s will. As I step into this precious position, I
would like to tell you my honest thoughts from the bottom of my heart.
Up this point, UPF’s global activities and the dedicated efforts of its leaders have
brought many leaders to connect with us and a network has been built. In leading the
providence, True Parents have prepared such a foundation in order that we would not be
like frogs in a well but so that we could go forward with glorious hearts.
As you know, we began from faith. At the age of sixteen, Father received, directly from
Jesus, the mission to save humanity. Since then he has endeavored to fulfill his mission as
the Messiah, the Savior and the Lord at his Second Coming. With this conviction, he has
marched out into the world.
I majored in religion at Harvard University, where, in introducing new religions, they
also taught about Unificationism in detail, considering it relatively important. Their expla-
nation included an introduction to Father and to our fundamental beliefs. There has never
before been a religion that has grown into a worldwide faith in the lifetime of its founder.
Jesus went the way of the cross, and although Buddha lived for eighty years, he was per-
secuted and did not spread his faith worldwide. Even when Mohammed entered Mecca,
Islam had not yet spread worldwide. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and
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Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i faith,

both passed away while imprisoned. The Uni-
fication Church could not have grown to the
extent it has if it had not received its mission
from God, and if God had not been guiding it.
It could not have come so far.

The stages of our movement

The Unification Church began as HSA-UWC.
The world called us the Unification Church,
but our official name was the Holy Spirit Asso-
ciation for the Unification of World Christian-
ity. In 1994, Father founded the Family Fed-
eration. In other words, he began the Family
Federation era, wherein we can go out into the
world and connect to not only the Christian
realm but with all the world’s people. In that Left: Dr. Thomas Walsh, UPF secretary-general, was master of ceremonies (Mr.
era, we carried out many activities, events Koh Kunduk interpreted); Right: Mr. Taj Hamad, WANGO secretary-general, read
and educational programs. And many people Hyung-jin nim's education and work experience (as customarily done); he also
made connections with us. spoke of he and his wife visiting Hyung-jin and Yeon-ah nim's home in the past.
However, recently True Father has instruct-
ed that we carry out our activities under
the name Unificationism. We have passed through the era of tity as the Messiah, Savior and True Parents. To do this, we need
HSA-UWC (formation period) and the era of the Family Federa- to look with spiritual eyes.
tion (growth period), and have entered the era of Unificationism Those who looked at Jesus Christ merely with their physical
(completion period) during which we can establish Cheon Il eyes saw only another Jewish leader active in society. They did
Guk. Father has given us the mission of uniting all religions into not recognize that Jesus came as the Son of God with the mis-
one family serving God and True Parents. sion of the Messiah. They would not be able to sense the salva-
Many of us here, including those who have worked in sup- tion and new life that came from him. Similarly, if we see True
port of UPF, are Unificationists, and as such have served True Parents with only our physical eyes, we see the founders of a
Parents as the Messiah, and received the blessing through them. widespread religion, patriots and leaders in the pursuit of world
We have given birth to our children. Such have been the lives we peace.
have led. If we can see True Parents with our spiritual eyes, we can
Father is saying to us, “Do not forget who I am.” In the Fam- understand who they really are and why Father acts in ways
ily Federation era, we introduced Father and his activities for some people do not understand or feel comfortable with. We
promoting peace, education and patriotism to many quarters. would realize why Father speaks for eight, ten or even twelve
Many people have connected with us and have come to respect hours at events, with sweat running down his face. Only when
True Parents. However, we need to let the world know that True we look at them with our spiritual eyes can we perceive the
Parents are more than patriots, champions of world peace and hearts of True Parents, who died, died and died again for us, and
religious leaders; we need to let the world know their true iden- who are still willing to die for us. Only then can we know them
correctly, as the True Parents who
have inherited the essence of the true
love of God, triumphed, and com-
pleted the mission of Jesus.
True Parents have taught us how
to create one family under God. It is
recorded in the Peace Messages. They
have taught us that the key is to serve
True Parents as our parents based on
faith, to receive the blessing through
them, and then to form an ideal fam-
ily that revolves around the true love
of God. Without faith, the substantial
foundation cannot be laid. As the
Divine Principle tells us, only on the
foundation of faith can we establish
the foundation of substance. Similar-
ly, without faith we cannot establish
Cheon Il Guk. If we want to establish
Left: Ambassadors for Peace Association president Kim Min-ha giving his congratulatory Cheon Il Guk while True Parents are
address; he was a little late coming to the podium because his eyes had welled with tears still with us, we need faith.
from Hyung-jin nim's description of Japanese members' lifestyle; Right: Dr. Hwang Sun-jo Father has said, “Make the name
leading cheers of Mansei Unificationism grow in prominence

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in the new era. Everyone needs to
attend the Original Divine Principle
lectures.” The Divine Principle
is our sacred teaching. It is not
a school textbook, but scripture.
Divine Principle is our scripture
that declares True Parents are the
Messiah. Why is Father having us
listen to Divine Principle lectures
again and testify to him as the Mes-
siah? Why do we need to repent
and begin anew? Father is saying,
“Do not forget who I am. I am not
just a patriot, or a peace advocate,
but the Son of God, the Parent of
all humankind, who has come to
accomplish Jesus’ unfulfilled mis-
sion.” This is what he is saying.

Our Japanese members’ lifestyle

We have carried out many activities,
but how have the global providence
and the church been carried out in
189 countries of the world? Who
has been supporting them? It wasn’t
people in society. It was people of True Family members sitting with Hyung-jin nim at his inauguration as the Universal Peace
faith. Especially our members in Federation's new international chairman: his older sister In-jin nim, his wife Lee Yeon-ah
Japan have shed blood, sweat and nim, and his sister-in-law Choi Yeon-ah nim
tears to provide a financial founda-
tion for all the work being carried out. This includes the work of month. Even before I had any official position, I was going to
UPF. Where does such a foundation come from? It comes from Japan. Whenever I go there, I visit the homes of church members,
faith. Our Japanese members are serving True Parents by sacrific- to spend time personally with the Japanese members. They have
ing themselves, working hard for True Parents and for the sake all sacrificed themselves for the global providence. Many Unifi-
of the world. They have championed the cause of our church and cationists have forgotten this. They have forgotten that the Japa-
all of our organizations. nese members are also human beings. We have sinned greatly.
For three years I have been visiting Japan almost every Looking at the Japanese members giving their tears, sweat and
blood, we have said that Japanese members
like this kind of sacrifice. That is not the real-
ity! They also find it difficult to sacrifice.
I cannot help feeling astonished when I
visit their homes. They raise three to four
children in one room. They have sacrificed by
selling their cars and their homes, and other
basics, in order to support the providence for
the entire world—to support you! And it is
not just one or two members who have done
so, but thousands. We need to see the reality
for what it is: because of faith such as theirs,
the Unification movement has been able to
come so far. The Japanese members, who have
shown such faith and such heart, are truly the
brave soldiers of our church.
All church-related institutions and orga-
nizations, and even the church itself, should
offer them infinite gratitude and bow to them.
It is time for us to sacrifice on their behalf. For
more than three decades the Japanese brothers
and sisters have supported the churches and
the providential activities carried out in your
own nations. This came from faith. In particu-
lar, from Japanese members’ faith.
If we understand this, we can realize
how precious their faith is, and how great is
Archbishop Milingo speaking with Hyung-jin nim immediately after the the true standard of faith in the Unification
inauguration; at back, In-jin nim greeting audience members Church, which they have demonstrated.

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 In this group photograph, the four UPF vice-presidents are seated next to Dr. Kim Min-ha, the white-haired gentleman directly
behind In-jin nim. They are (right to left) Dr. Hwang Sun-jo, Dr. Seuk Joon-ho, Dr. Yang Chang-shik and Dr. Kim Ki-hoon.
The truth is that the Korean church and the American church
have not reached such a level. The Korean church had been
relying on financial support from the Japanese church. Even the
American church has been supported.
In order for the church to develop, we have had to make diffi-
cult decisions and face difficult challenges. We need to show that
we are working with dignity, responsibility and a sense of mis-
sion and thus liberate the Japanese members from their burden.
For the first time in its history, this year the Korean church did
not receive even one cent from the Japanese church.
However, we still have a long way to go. The Korean church
has yet to fulfill its duties as the father nation. Japan is still shoul-
dering the heaviest burden. The American church is developing
under the leadership of In-jin nuna and is cultivating the ability
to become financially independent. No matter what circumstanc-
es we face, we need to remember this: We were able to carry out
all those activities because of faith, and come this far because of
the root of our faith.
The root of all branches of our movement
The Unification Church and all providential organizations share
the same purpose. Our purpose is to glorify our True Parents.
True Parents are not ordinary people. We need to elevate our
faith to a higher level and serve them appropriately. We need to
look at them through spiritual eyes and be able to sacrifice for
their sake. That is how we can become the owners of the provi-
dence.
Only when the sons and daughters sacrifice themselves and
work hard when their father is in need can they be called devot-
ed. If the father is elderly, feeling weary, and in trouble, and the
sons and daughters say, “You caused this problem; you solve it,”
they are not showing filial piety.
I have heard it said that we don’t need religion and that Rev.
Moon did not come to create a religion. But Father did not even
come for the purpose of creating organizations and educational
institutions such as Sun Moon University or UPF. He has estab-
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lished them in their various fields only because they were neces-
sary in creating the ideal world as envisaged by God.
Of course, religion would not be necessary in the Garden of
Eden; neither would be politics or education. All we need to do
is live in the realm of God’s direct dominion. However, since we
are not living in the Garden of Eden at present, we need organi-
zations such as the Unification Church, the Universal Peace Fed-
eration and Sun Moon University.
Please remember that all of these organizations are rooted in
faith. People who are serving True Parents as the Christ, the Lord
at his Second Coming, are working in these organizations world-
wide. It would be shameful for us to say, in front of such faith,
that we don’t need faith or religion. Rather we should be grateful
to them, follow their way, make sacrifices ourselves through a
greater faith. [Applause]
Change within the Korean church
I was greatly shocked when I came to Korea and was given
the responsibility of running the Korean church. Many people
thought that working in an office from nine to six was practic-
ing a life of faith and attending True Parents They did not attend
Sunday service and did not even tithe to the church or invest in
the second generation. They did not do any church-related ser-
vice work and did not participate in witnessing.
This was truly shameful. In contrast, the Japanese members
work from nine to six wherever they work, but after that, they
come to church every day and participate in witnessing and
educational activities, and they make donations. They dedicate
themselves every day without missing a day. That’s the reality.
After coming to know their standard of faith, I could not
help feeling shocked at people who thought working from nine
to five was equivalent to leading a life of faith. The Japanese
members were toiling and sacrificing themselves for the Unifica-
tion Church, walking such a path of hardship, but what was the
standard of our faith? Weren’t we making them shoulder all the
responsibility, and weren’t we living comfortably, rather than
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sacrificing ourselves for True Parents? This was not a life of faith.
Nowadays, however, all the church leaders and regional lead-
ers in Korea are striving harder, carrying out activities until late
at night. They are sacrificing for their members in this way. All
the officials of the church are also working hard and sacrificing
for the church. I am so proud to see that such changes have taken
place.
We still have a long way to go, even so. We have to work
hard to accomplish the global providential objectives. We need
to work for the Abel UN and the crucial missions of unifying all
people and bringing religions together.
All of you have studied the Principle. Without the foundation
of faith, the foundation of substance cannot be laid, and conse-
quently Satan inevitably continues to get in. That is why we are
continuing with the Original Divine Principle lectures centering
on Rev. Yu. All of us need to return to the original faith and see
True Parents with our spiritual eyes.
This is our internal aspect and our faith. As a result of
expressing such faith, of being true, faithful followers, the Japa-
nese members’ human rights have been severely violated. Prot-
estant church ministers and leftist lawyers opposed to us system-
atically instigated kidnapping and they have tried to break the
faith of four thousand three hundred Japanese members, violat-
ing their human rights.
The Japanese members are shedding their blood for our
sakes—struggling, even perishing for the providence—and to
support all providential organizations. If we then say that we do
not need a life of faith, it is disrespectful of the Japanese mem-
bers’ lives of faith. Faith holds the greatest value. Because of that
faith, we came to know True Parents, we received the blessing,
and we were blessed and gave birth to a second and a third gen-
eration.
Know that your faith is your right, and march forward proud-
ly. True Parents came with such a sense of their mission, with
such faith, and they have changed the world. Through their mis-
sion they have shown us that all of us can reach a higher dimen-
sion of love.
The decision-making process
Ladies and gentlemen! In this era Father, therefore, is saying,
“Don’t forget who I am.” We are not serving an ordinary person.
Someone like him comes only once. He is such a precious person.
The individual missions of the children are comparatively
easy. Though we may have our own individual dreams and
interests, our mission is very clear. We need to live our lives for
the glory of True Parents. When we go to the spiritual world,
the matter of whether we have been children devoted to True
Parents or not will be of great importance. To speak frankly, any-
thing else, including what position we held in the world, is of no
importance at all.
In my case, I was engaged in spiritual training even before I
was given responsibilities. Even afterward, I have continued to
train myself. I will continue with the training even if Father dis-
misses me. I believe our lives should not change based on wheth-
er we have been given responsibilities or not. If our purpose is to
return glory to True Parents, we should do our best for them.
I apologize for having spoken so frankly. I’m still very young.
Father is clearly telling us, “We need to return to our faith.”
We need to remember this if we desire to realize Cheon Il Guk.
Cheon Il Guk cannot be established just by bringing people
together. It requires faith and belief in True Parents.
I am truly grateful to be able to speak to you on this occasion
on behalf of True Parents. No matter what position I am assigned
to, only True Parents are the final decision makers in everything.
Whether it is for the development of the church, or Kook-jin
hyung’s work with the businesses, or In-jin nuna’s work for the
American movement, our plans are first reported to True Parents
and are carried out only with their permission.
There are missions Father wishes UPF to fulfill. UPF needs
to build the Abel UN and build a substantiation foundation. In
the process of fulfilling those missions, everything must be done
based on what Father decides. This is the right way and the filial
way.
True Parents are our eternal True Parents who come once in
the course of history. When we look at them with our spiritual
eyes, and elevate them, serve them, testify to them and sacrifice
for their sake, Cheon Il Guk can be established substantially on
that foundation of faith.
I offer infinite gratitude to True Parents.
I would like to end by expressing my deepest gratitude to
all the leaders and other members—especially the sacrificial
Japanese members, the ambassadors for peace, and all those con-
nected with us.  TW
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