The 2 approaches - quantity vs quality. Missionary vs immersion.
There is a teaching in the UB that is a bit scattered across several references. It goes like this.
There are two approaches to progress and growth.
Approach 1
Train and send out missionaries into the areas and cultures that are in need of improvement, so they can openly teach your ways to entire groups and populations. This approach uses minimal resources applied for maximum coverage. The focus is onĀ quantity.
Train and send out missionaries into the areas and cultures that are in need of improvement, so they can openly teach your ways to entire groups and populations. This approach uses minimal resources applied for maximum coverage. The focus is onĀ quantity.
The UB tells us clearly that this is frequently a recipe for disaster.
This approach has a long history of failure and atrocities on this planet.
We don't want to make that fatal error!
This approach has a long history of failure and atrocities on this planet.
We don't want to make that fatal error!
Yes the UB does tell us that Jesus trained up evangelists for this very purpose, yet history shows that this has had little to no lasting impact.
Approach 2
Set up a proper and adequately controlled environment, then seek out the best candidates among those that are out there in need of improvement, and invite them to your environment, so they can learn first hand, through "high quality full immersion" in the ways of Jesus and the Kingdom.
Set up a proper and adequately controlled environment, then seek out the best candidates among those that are out there in need of improvement, and invite them to your environment, so they can learn first hand, through "high quality full immersion" in the ways of Jesus and the Kingdom.
Once they have been adequately trained and enculturated in this correct environment, then you return them to their places of origin so they can begin dessiminating what they learned into their own people and cultures, and allowing the local mores to adapt and change gradually according to the laws of evolution.
This is the way Dalamatia City was setup to operate. The apex of civilisation at the time. Guarded by a 40 foot high wall. Hosting and training the best students from the surrounding tribes.
This is the way the Garden of Eden was also setup to operate. The apex of civilisation of that time. Isolated on a peninsula and barricaded by a massive wall and gates. Hosting and training the best students from the surrounding tribes, then returning them to their original communities as guiding lights and uplifters.
This approach uses maximum resources applied to minimum coverage (only the best candidates). The focus is on quality.
This is why Bonnie Klatt and her Garden Culture school initiative is so important. It's a revival of the Dalamatia and Eden approach. It serves to establish a central location to bring suitable candidates to, for full immersion into the ways of the Kingdom, the way Adam and Eve originally did it. What is yet unclear with her work is whether it will evolve as a physical location at her site, or a physical community church approach, or a virtual environment. She's highly skilled in IT so she could easily go the virtual route with it. She's still working out the details. I will have a chat with her soon to get an update on her progress. Like us, she also has a strong religious background as well as strong Urantia Book understanding.
Since we seem to be dealing mostly with a digital landscape at the beginning of this, I think the onus is on us, for the present, to find ways of accomplishing this via the internet (at least in the beginning).
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