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S E C U L A R I M P A C T

PRACTICAL

OPERATIONS MANUAL

Research Paper Research Assembly

Not for Publication Summer '72

SECULAR IMPACT SCHEMES

INDEX

Introduction page 1

I TRACTORY 2

1. Image 2

2. Impact Plan 3

3. Basic Programme Format 5

4. Global/Local Systems 7

II MINUTE VISITS 9

5. Image 9

6. Impact Plan 11

7. Basic Programme Format 12

8. Global/Local Systems 14

III SPEAKERS BUREAU 17

9. Image 17

10. Impact Plan 13

11. Basic Programme Format 20

12. Global/Local Systems 22

IV THREE DAY VISITS 26

13. Image 26

14. Impact Plan 27

15. Basic Programme Format 28

16. Global/Local Systems 30

SECULAR IMPACT SCHEMES

INTRODUCTION

At the present rate of impact, it will take 200,000 years to get the Word to every human being on earth. Obviously then, to impact the world, a completely new vision is needed. Essentially, the church has been renewed and it is now time for those forces of renewal to signal the turn to the world through the impactment of secular man with the possibility of a meaningful life style. Thus, in the year of the Great Turn, Secular Impact Schemes has been created.

Immediate experimentation is required to provide the structural means, tactical prowess, practical methods and trained troops to directly address secular man. This manual is designed to enable the address of secular man in four arenas: the Tractory, Minute Visits, Speakers' Bureau and 3Day Visits.

SECULAR IMPACT SCHEMES

I. TRACTORY '

1. IMAGE

Global
Situations

Historical
Precedents

Movement
Experiments

Great Plan

In our time, an enormously large population demands a medium that will reach the masses effectively. Direct personal contact cannot do this. Because of the effectiveness of global communications and the pervasive nature of the technological revolution, local man operates increasingly out of a common story and world view, offering a rich opportunity for massive impactment by a single medium. In most developing countries, departments of education are firmly established with a high percentage of indigenous teachers, pointing to an increasing rate of literacy and the demand for reading material. in 20th Century society, it is clearly evident that man is reaching new levels of depth consciousness and is seeking common images in which to ground his new understandings of life. Popular performances such as Jesus Christ Super Star, reflect a developing need for tools to enable the apprehension of life as a religious experience. Protest groups have experienced the corporate power of local man, but need ways to rehearse and develop that power into the comprehensive.

Tracts, since the printing press' have been a major thrust in any reform or revolution. For instance, the 16th Century Reformation was greatly influenced by Luther's tracts which were addressed to the educated leadership of his world. In the 18th Century, Thomas Paine's tracts on liberty motivated the New World leaders to create the American Revolution in political order and human freedom. John Henry Newman, who to many is the classic example of a tractarian, in the 19th Century, preserved historical Roman Catholic insights for the scientific mindset. Finally, Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book has been called the most influential book (or tract) of the 20^th Century. This should indicate that the power of tracts is very much alive today, and as history has been shaped in the past by the tractarian movement, so today, this powerful influence is still possible.

In the past, the spirit movement has not seen itself as tractarian, although a few tracts have been produced: The New Social Vehicle, The Local Church Experiment, The New Individual and Society Course, The Movemental Order, Movement publications on the church year and Annual and SemiAnnual Development Reports. The latter are outstanding in quality, a factor which helps in establishing recognition for the Movement as a responsible organization. Tract distribution has been largely within the Order.

In view of this context, it is apparent that we need to strategically impact the whole globe with a new mythology for local man's possibility. One essential tool for this task is the use of tracts, systematically distributed throughout the nine geosocial continents by colleagues of the Spirit Movement, working out of a comprehensive tactical model.

SECULAR IMPACT SCHEMES INTRODUCTION
	At the present rate of impact, it will take 200,000 years to get the Word to every human being on earth. Obviously then, to impact the world, a completely new vision is needed. Essentially, the church has been renewed and it is now time for those forces of renewal to signal the turn to the world through the impactment of secular man with the possibility of a meaningful life style. Thus, in the year of the Great Turn, Secular Impact Schemes has been created. Immediate experimentation is required to provide the structural means, tactical prowess, practical methods and trained troops to directly address secular man. This manual is designed to enable the address of secular man in four arenas: the Tractory, Minute Visits, Speakers' Bureau and 3Day Visits.
SECULAR IMPACT SCHEMES I. TRACTORY ' 1. IMAGE
Global Situations Historical Precedents Movement Experiments Great Plan	In our time, an enormously large population demands a medium that will reach the masses effectively. Direct personal contact cannot do this. Because of the effectiveness of global communications and the pervasive nature of the technological revolution, local man operates increasingly out of a common story and world view, offering a rich opportunity for massive impactment by a single medium. In most developing countries, departments of education are firmly established with a high percentage of indigenous teachers, pointing to an increasing rate of literacy and the demand for reading material. in 20th Century society, it is clearly evident that man is reaching new levels of depth consciousness and is seeking common images in which to ground his new understandings of life. Popular performances such as Jesus Christ Super Star, reflect a developing need for tools to enable the apprehension of life as a religious experience. Protest groups have experienced the corporate power of local man, but need ways to rehearse and develop that power into the comprehensive. Tracts, since the printing press' have been a major thrust in any reform or revolution. For instance, the 16th Century Reformation was greatly influenced by Luther's tracts which were addressed to the educated leadership of his world. In the 18th Century, Thomas Paine's tracts on liberty motivated the New World leaders to create the American Revolution in political order and human freedom. John Henry Newman, who to many is the classic example of a tractarian, in the 19th Century, preserved historical Roman Catholic insights for the scientific mindset. Finally, Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book has been called the most influential book (or tract) of the 20^th Century. This should indicate that the power of tracts is very much alive today, and as history has been shaped in the past by the tractarian movement, so today, this powerful influence is still possible. In the past, the spirit movement has not seen itself as tractarian, although a few tracts have been produced: The New Social Vehicle, The Local Church Experiment, The New Individual and Society Course, The Movemental Order, Movement publications on the church year and Annual and SemiAnnual Development Reports. The latter are outstanding in quality, a factor which helps in establishing recognition for the Movement as a responsible organization. Tract distribution has been largely within the Order. In view of this context, it is apparent that we need to strategically impact the whole globe with a new mythology for local man's possibility. One essential tool for this task is the use of tracts, systematically distributed throughout the nine geosocial continents by colleagues of the Spirit Movement, working out of a comprehensive tactical model.