4/28/72

I don't always talk about quarter anymore. I got a criteria that I operate by. What's important this quarter only one thing is important the local congregation. The research nothing, if you know me you know I mean exactly what I say that's where I work and am responsible, it's nothing. When you get your criteria it gives your priority out The cadre is nothing, this summer I worked there too, nothing. All of this overseas nonsense that we've got nothing, local congregation, local congregation. And you remember now about 2 years ago we went for broke on that local congregation and as far as I'm concerned we are still going for broke. That's the only thing that is important that local congregation in spirit and service. I'm not going to my list but I'll tell you in a second I don't always like to hear them report, 5th city, 5th city, 5th city but they are a little bit different. I've got 5th city bracketed in my mind I've got it on the other side of a veil. I'm waiting on Lazarus I'm waiting on a crack and even if it is in the middle of a quarter in the middle of the week and that crack appears if I have anything to do about it I mean we are going to disappear as a total body through that crack to bring 5th city off. The crack isn't there yet but it could be there this quarter. I suspected it would come last October I was wrong, it didn't come this winter. It may come this spring I can make a long speech on why for me 5th City is the second most important thing we are doing. I believe when you have an assignment the only way that you can keep from doing of giving yourself absolutely to your assignment, and if you have a better criteria that tells you where your assignment is in the broad sweep of what tomorrow, and your passion" then it means first of all a new assignment, it. It's in that I ought to have it that's where your pass on is. I don't mean to talk about that. I hope you keep on reporting that you get before our souls every week the local congregation, local congregation, local congregation. I'm also pleased what happened here with the experiment of the congregations, in the last quarter. And the thing that please me most about it is that you maintained the glue of the total order while you really pushed the congregation dynamic down the road.

I am convinced that you are not going to have a global order if it is a in any way decentralized. You have to create a global order that is radically centralized. I mean radically centralized, I mean to the point of sheer tyranny but without a hierarchical structure and without a bureaucratic framework. You can say is the old man crazy, maybe but I believe, I believe, I believe that you are capable of creating a sociological hunk of machinery that will do exactly that. And that will permit local autonomy. And nothing else will.

One of the thing that pleased me about this morning, and only a few time in our order have I been anywhere as pleased as­ I was this morning with the climax of the play. The thing that impressed me about those report it seems to me that nobody anybody's back. It's like that's what I mean by local autonomy I mean if you didn't get anything done it was your own fault. I mean the door is wide open that's what I heard this morning and if it isn't it is because you don't make it so. Nobody is riding on Rafos back about how he creates the management dynamic for the future. Now if he sits around bluffing or trying to make his office into the meaning of the whole thing around here then somebody is going to get on more than his back. But nobody is on his back and Cramer nobody is on your back in that office in there. If I heard you correctly this morning and Marshall, nobody is on your guys back over there. That is local autonomy. But I think that is possible precisely because you are making this a highly crystallized order. You'll not long endure otherwise I'd like to go ahead and make a speech on that item.

In the fall you really emphasized the Ecclesiola in the winter you emphasized the congregation now I think that this spring you've got to emphasize them both at once that you have to come down strong on both. It's one of the reason I think that it is important we make 5 rather than 3. I won't go over this. But you have to do both of them, You've got to do that I believe, for two primary reasons, one has to do with this summer, and it is highly complex. This summer marks the point where in the beginning of the next four years, the beginning of the next 90 years when we have to have quickly, a mass of trained people and training for me, I mean this incidentally for all of you Academy people, training does not mean anything an you ever learn at the Academy. Training is not fundamentally intellectual now I want to take a little bit of this back from the Academy in a moment. Training means for me nothing less and nothing more than discipline. You see

beginning July 1st we are going to be highly discipline people. Now the flip side of discipline is care do you understand that. If I'm dealing with myself then I have to use the word discipline when I dealing with some one else then its care.  What I'm trying to say is there is no sentiment no emotion, Discipline matter is sentiment is no emotion its care. Or if I care for John the miracle your going, I mean if I care for John, the miracle your going to see is that of a discipline man. That's how you know that the Ecclesiola as rendered enough that Ecclesiola was really caring for the members at the end of that quarter if they cared they would come out of there iron men . . .  They would come out of there disciplined men.

We've got on care. It has to do with material care, physical care if you like. But in this material care and physical care whether your taking a plate of beans up to somebody who's feigning sickness or not, that's not the point, it's something deeper than that. Your attempting to enable someone to care materially for themselves for the rest of their lives. Now I don't want to make a big speech about man when he gets sick who isn't disciplined. A disciplined man does not get sick period now after you say that, of course you get sick, but a disciplined man is a man who begins by knowing that a disciplined man does not get sick. Care can communicate that, that's what that care means. If you don't mind my being just a little Or material, and I'm not going to talk on this subject I'm just going to hint a little bit. Material care means that you learn how to use the resources that you have in such a fashion that you always be ready to move in a minute.



The second kind of care I'm talking about, I don't want to elaborate is intellectual care. What does it mean that you I are cared for in such a fashion that I become capable of my own creative .



The third kind of care we call vocational care. What we meant by that , it is by golly the Ecclesiola responsibility to see that everybody in that Ecclesiola knows how to teach. I have people coming to me from time to time, when I can't hide from them, it seems that I haven't talked for over each morning. Well you know that if I was that guy I wouldn't pick out the old man I'd jump with both feet into that Ecclesiola, that's there responsibility. Now that doesn't mean that if I want to teach 8 times in a quarter , that I'm going to get to teach 8 times in a quarter. Now that's no. what care means either. What care means you understand what needs to be done. And even though your is not accepted in other parts of the order you have a model for, becomes a tremendous teacher, or a tremendous prior or whatever.



And the last item is spiritual care, oh boy, oh boy I don't know quite what this means I can tell whether a person has been cared for spiritually. For one thing whether he can walk down the hall and come back having struggled his spirit out of his walk down that hall. And I don't mean to enlarge on that. Now the flip side of this is discipline. The time has come when we have to build the kind of a careful 4 x 4 on what we mean by discipline. Like we have on what we mean by corporateness. I'm fooling with that and you know I've already started to talk about it whenever you approach me making a little off the cuff speech about what waiting on the Lord means that's a part of a 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 on discipline. For you can take the 144's and deal with the discipline that's there. A discipline person is a person who knowing exactly where he is relative to those 144's boxes. 3ut I want to talk for just for a moment nothing new just beginning to draw this together a bit.



I don't mean ever by discipline some sort of big idea about structures that have to be fulfilled. I'm a fanatic about being on time, and no man for me is a spirit man if he is not on time. That includes my wife. And it has taken me 29 years of marriage an to get enough courage to say it that hard. Out in public. Nobody is discipline of being on time.  . . . 

Discipline never has to do with . . . . . discipline has to do with accomplishing a task in a midst of history. And for me the disciplined person is first of all is the person who learns how to be self disciplined and I'm going deal now, and your going to have to deal now with how it is that a person becomes self generating. I don't know use other poetry, self generating, by that I mean the kind of thing that Wainwright is doing in India. I mean he is bring off indict and he doesn't have to have somebody waddle by to prop him up in order to do it. Boy I mean by that the man who can stand in the desert day after day after day after day after day and when you come back 20 years he is still standing there in the same crud in the same much up to his eyeballs and he is standing there.