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1. Home Church symbolizes Adam's family in the original garden of Eden, a family that did not fall but became one in total love, with God as the center.
When Home Church starts this way and develops into a tribal-level Home Church and then a national-level Home Church, it can lead to one unified world having the ideal form of a global family. I teach this based on the Principle viewpoint.
You ought to understand the importance of what the Unification Church has done in presenting the Home Church and establishing it before God, humanity, and the entire cosmos.
It is the very path that Adam and Eve would have taken had they not fallen at the outset, but had instead centered on God throughout their lives, lived on earth amid His love, given birth to sons and daughters, and then entered the spirit world.
It is also the path their children and their children's children would have followed. Adam and Eve and their entire lineage with all their descendants would have naturally entered the kingdom of heaven. (102-230, 1979.01.01)
What is a Home Church?
2. Until now, you may have thought that the Home Church is just an institution of the Unification Church, but that is not so. Home Church in the Unification Church is your heavenly kingdom. It is your kingdom, not anyone else's, but yours.
After Jesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven, where did he go? He went the way of the cross. The keys to the kingdom of heaven are the Home Church movement. In other words, we must establish tribes, and it is our mission through the Home Church to present a model of the tribal system.
Jesus said, "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Matt. 18:18)
If we don't bind Home Church – if we don't make it happen – we cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. (110-265, 1981.01.01)
3. I am giving Unification Church members the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Am I going to the cross to die? No. I am going to a higher place, with hope. Jesus left the earth and did not return for two thousand years. After I die I shall be able to come and go any time as freely as I want.
When I return, I will not go to the Unification Church but to your Home Church. Home Church is the place where God can reside, where your parents can reside, where your sons and daughters can reside, and where your relatives can reside.
The institutional church is merely like an office that serves the families in society. (110-266, 1981.01.01)
4. As a result of the Fall in the Garden of Eden, there was a struggle between Cain, who was born the older brother, and Abel, the younger brother. The resentment between them became bitter. We must resolve it; otherwise, there is no way for us to find the Parents. For this purpose, God has walked a winding path with ups and downs throughout history.
Amid this providence, what the Unification Church offers is a Home Church. What is the Garden of Eden? It is a Home Church where there is no struggle between Cain and Abel, between the older brother and the younger brother. This makes for one-ness with their parents and oneness between God and the archangel.
Thereby everything is unified. It is to make this kind of environment that I, the Teacher of the Unification Church, came forth. I am trying to eliminate the boundary line between the angelic world and Heaven, and between the human world and the angelic world, and to tear down the wall the enemy placed between Cain and Abel. All this is to straighten out what went wrong.
Based on this providence in this historical age, when national borders and social systems are being removed, once all become one through the Home Church, everything will be restored. (105-338, 1979.10.28)
5. If there is one day God will remember, it will be the day we are born anew to live eternally as His friends and His sons and daughters, and can receive His love. This will be the day we can participate in the ideal world of love, and it is the day God will remember as His best day.
The Unification Church places importance on the matter of love because human beings have to create the gateway of love through which they can go to the spirit world after living on earth with a physical body. We place great importance on the family. We need that kind of family.
We should seek the ideal family, and that ideal is the fulfillment of God's Will. It is a human being's greatest purpose. Therefore, we must go forward on this path. God has desired to see the coming of this age. He has been leading the providence through religion to bind together all men and women as His sons and daughters in the same place and at the same time.
Home Church was established to combine all the previous works of God's providence and erect the foundation for ideal families. (116-180, 1982.01.01)
6. The purpose of the Home Church movement is to have you emerge as true men and women. It is to elevate you to a position victorious over the fallen realm. This is an unprecedented one-time event. It has never occurred in any religion or at any previous period in history, and it will not be repeated in the future.
Therefore, you must overcome any obstacles in your Home Church area, to the point that those who had opposed you give you their blessing and endorse you with signed certificates, stating, “This person is a good person, truly a person of God.”
Once you erect that victorious foundation, then when you embark upon your journey to the next world, you will be able to pass easily through all the gates to the kingdom of heaven and come before God.
Wherever your Home Church is, there is the kingdom of heaven. The Unification Church is carrying this historical responsibility to prepare this path for your victory. Think about the fact that such a path has appeared amid the present-day world, which is like a barren desert or hell.
Undoubtedly, this path is the path to life, the path to the bright light, and the path of hope. On this path, we can meet God, on this path we can meet the Messiah, and on this path, then we can meet the True Parents.
Moreover, on this path, Cain and Abel can meet and become one, and on this path, all the enemies who were lost, all tribes that were lost, and all humanity that was lost can be recovered. (104-263, 1979.05.27)
7. With the arrival of this age, you can do the work in place of the Parents. When you are working in my place, what you need to do is copy what I have done. I did things on the world stage, but you do not need to travel around the entire world. Instead, the place where you should do the work is like an altar that contains in condensed form all the things I have connected while traveling the world.
All the people of the world are condensed there; it is the world on a smaller scale. Because you need an indemnity condition to model my worldwide activities, Home Church was instituted. (115-083, 1981.11.04)
8. Home Church enables us to move from the position of the second son to inherit the rights of the first son and return to our hometown. It is the foundation by which we can find and compensate for the failures that took place around Jesus.
You need to become the people who can accomplish what Jesus came to do. By establishing these conditions, you will become Jesus' sons and daughters, and by this, you will become sons and daughters of God. (101-330, 1978.11.12)
9. When God comes to visit your village, your home should be a place where He can freely teach and instruct about anything in the presence of your father and mother. This is how you should be serving and attending God with your utmost sincerity.
You are not simply attending the king or the ruler of your nation; you are attending the One, the Lord who governs heaven and earth. Attending Him should be everyone's ultimate wish. There is no one greater whom we could ever desire to attend, even in our dreams.
Then, with gratitude for the fact that you are living in the era when you can receive Him and attend Him face to face, you should be able to suggest to your neighbors that they decorate and prepare their houses with cries of “Let's attend God!”
The mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, relatives, and all their neighbors should be willing to overcome their tendency to distrust, surmount all the waves of death, and say, “Let's make our neighborhood a place where we can live with God eternally!”
We need such a movement, and therefore the endeavor called Home Church has emerged in the Unification Church at this time. Up to this point, religions have focused on the goal of individual salvation, but the goal of the Unification Church is to save the tribes we establish in our communities.
We're striving to save all tribes at the same time. The Home Church movement does not advocate the idea that “I will go to heaven when I die,” but rather, “We will receive a communal ticket, so our tribe can all go to heaven while we are still alive.” (101-262, 1978.11.01)
10. You should miss your parents and shed tears for them until you die. You cried when you were born, so while you live you should shed tears as well. You should cry for them with a heart of missing them, and you should shed tears of joy whenever you see them. You have to live such a life before you leave this world; only then can you enter the kingdom of heaven after you die.
This is the Principle. However, because you could not do so, the True Parents have come to the present time and established the Home Church movement. Through it, they are giving you a chance to make the proper conditions to enable you to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Thus, the Home Church is the starting point of the kingdom of heaven. The cosmos-centered way of thinking is the True Parents' way of thinking. To center on True Parents' thoughts means you need to bring your family and relatives together to become part of the heavenly kingdom. That is what Home Church is for. You should stand as the center of your Home Church, then of your family, and then of your tribe – three stages.
This is formation, growth, and completion. Without tribes, a nation cannot be established. This is why we started using the term “tribal messiah” when we inaugurated the Home Church movement.
Thus, the Home Church movement is the beginning of the heavenly nation, namely, the kingdom of heaven. So when can you meet the Parents? Only when you go to your Home Church. (124-043, 1983.01.16)
11. Cain and Abel must become one. John the Baptist in the older brother's position could not become one with Jesus in the younger brother's position. Because they could not become one, the foundation for the twelve tribes and the seventy disciples to go out to the world was lost.
This must be indemnified. The twelve tribes represent the form of the family and the seventy disciples the form of the tribe. Therefore, without the Home Church, there would be no foundation to restore these numbers and no conditional foundation to go back and forth throughout the world. Therefore, even if the Adam figure were to go out to the world, he would have to return.
Home Church is the condition by which you can inherit and stand on the historical indemnity conditions I have established. Without it, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. I have worked by setting all the conditions up to the global level, and these are condensed into Home Church. It is an altar on which you can fulfill the reduced conditions and win my blessing.
How much has God suffered? How much did I suffer, and how much did Jesus suffer? Since the altar of victory that was formed as a result of all this effort and suffering will be transferred to you, you also will need to build an altar. Home Church is the vehicle for me to pass down my foundation to you and for you to receive it from me. (122-121, 1982.11.01)
12. Looking at the world based on the Principle, there are nations, rulers, and peoples, which can be considered as three stages. You cannot have a relationship with me apart from these three stages. Thus, when I am working for the world, I should work for a nation, or at least for a people-level endeavor.
You need to do revival work that will lead to a supra-denominational movement. For this, you have to make special conditions for 360 homes, which represent 360 tribes. They also represent 360 degrees, symbolizing a perfect sphere. By the lunar calendar, one year is approximately 360 days.
Since the providence of restoration is accomplished on the Earth, the lunar calendar must be used. The lunar calendar should be the central one. Even if you say, “Based on True Father's victory, I have inherited all the content of restoration through indemnity and the realm of completion for the portion of responsibility,” did you inherit this content?
Can you do so simply because you know me? This can happen only after you meet all the required conditions to inherit everything I have accomplished, and declare, “I will inherit Father's foundation by doing this.” And the “this” that you need to do is Home Church. (148-175, 1986.10.08)
13. If you fulfill your Home Church mission, you will be liberated from all your burdens. Leading your tribe of 360 families, you will live your life in the kingdom of heaven on earth. This kind of phenomenon will happen. The Unification Church in the past used to focus on individual salvation.
The fact that now we have come to live in a world where we are allowed to work for tribal-level salvation through Home Church is astonishing progress. No one, neither you nor me, can go to the kingdom of heaven without fulfilling this mission. It is a duty assigned to all of us in this fallen world.
Now you know how God's kingdom can be established. We are living in an incredible age, one in which we can declare the completion era of the providence in which everything fits perfectly from the logical viewpoint of the Principle.
This is why I am urging you all to go out to your Home Church area with the qualification of messiah, with which I have commissioned you. There, at your Home Church, you must eat, sleep, live, and become victorious. If you are not victorious there, you cannot go to the kingdom of heaven. (101-341, 1978.11.12)
The Inheritance of True Parents' realm of victory
14. If there is a treasure I am bequeathing to the Unification Church, it is the Home Church. After going the way of sacrifice throughout my life, what I am leaving behind for you is the treasure of the Home Church. Again, what is the treasure I am leaving behind for the members of the Unification Church?
I am allowing you to proudly inherit the authority of the Unification Church from heaven and earth, from God and Satan; that is the treasure of the Home Church. When Home Church is completed, the name “Unification Church” will disappear.
God's providence may remain in the realm where the Home Church is not yet completed. But in the realm where the Home Church is fulfilled, there will be no need for religion or God's providence, for it is where the citizens of heaven will live. What are the 360 homes for?
They are to bring all humanity equally to the ideal. In your Home Church area, you should gather people from twelve neighboring communities or at least twelve nationalities. (108-334, 1980.10.19)
15. Our church has not yet established a heavenly foundation on the world level. Therefore, I must organize Home Church to place my stamp of victory on the world. That is, at the end of forty years, I will have set all the conditions of restitution needed to completely establish the authority to determine ownership centering on the love of God.
Thereupon, when Satan and God testify to my victory and publicly announce, “You are victorious,” then the Parents can bequeath to you the right to determine your ownership of the victory of love.
The reason you can inherit it is that we have the title of the True Parents; otherwise, you would not be able to inherit it. For you to inherit it from True Parents, you should not have any traces of Satan's world or any disposition of a wild olive tree. (137-301, 1986.01.03)
16. The most important thing is the relationship between God and human beings. The next is the Cain-Abel relationship.
Why is Home Church necessary?
It is because through it the first and second sons can be restored. Change of lineage naturally occurs when you receive the Blessing.
I have done all this for you, who are on the Cain side. You can inherit it because the child's relationship with the Parent is established. The place where you inherit is your Home Church. You should pray constantly.
If you keep a prayerful heart twenty-four hours a day, with a desire to realize the Will for everyone, and then you strive to actualize that desire, you'll reach God because your life itself will have become a prayer.
If that happens, you can live together with me and with God. God will then directly intervene since you will enter the realm of direct dominion. This is the way the Principle is.
Thus, if you do a Home Church activity, you can meet God. After doing so, knowing that God is a living God, you must have experience in actualizing His Will. (161-154, 1977.01.18)
17. I have gone through the indemnity course for the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world, and now I am connecting it to Korea. I unified them with the bond of love, and now, through love, I am bequeathing them to you. They are for you to inherit because love is one.
In a relationship of love, both participants have the same value. Even a woman from the countryside, if she marries the president of a nation, will from that day on be the first lady. Right away she will rise to a rank equal to that of the president.
Therefore, you of the Unification Church must become completely one with True Parents. Your heart of love must be at the forefront. Because I am the True Parent, I must now connect you with the standard that is higher than the completion level of the growth stage, the standard of direct dominion, the place you were originally unable to go.
The foundation you need to make, as the condition for me to connect you with that standard, is Home Church. (137-111, 1985.12.24)
18. Your family must complete its responsibility. By doing your five percent, you will complete the responsibility of one hundred percent. By fulfilling the five percent human portion of responsibility, you will fulfill all the responsibilities that God requires.
By doing Home Church, you will be reckoned as having completed what I have been doing my whole life. That is your responsibility. You must be grateful for the fact that I indemnified the portions of responsibility for the nation, the world, and even the cosmos, and then gave you the blessing to be able to inherit and stand on that indemnity by paying indemnity on the family level.
To repeat, I mobilized the nation, world, and even the spirit world to finish all the restoration through indemnity. Thus, if you just do restoration through indemnity at the family level, I will bequeath all that to you. Only the five percent family responsibility remains. (119-153, 1982.07.11)
19. Where is the kingdom of heaven? We can conclude, “It is in my heart and me.” Yet, after having heaven in your heart, you need to have the heaven of the body. Only after having the heaven of the body can you actualize heaven in your family, which is your Home Church.
In that heaven, Satan cannot accuse you; he cannot even live there. It is a place where Satan's activities are not permitted. Hence, unless you can become a person who can say heaven is in your heart and body, you cannot establish a heavenly environment.
Your Home Church refers to a heaven that includes the environment. What kind of base does your Home Church make? Your Home Church provides a base for you to receive the approval of Heaven. Once you set up that environment in your Home Church, it connects you to the nation and the world. (110-258, 1981.01.01)
Sun Myung Moon