At this exact time
history when the peoples of the world are weighed with soul-crushing
difficulties and the shadow of despair threatens to eclipse the light of hope,
there must be revived among the individual believers a sense of mission, a
feeling of empowerment to minister to the urgent need of humanity for guidance
and thus win victories for the Faith in their own sphere of life. The community
as a whole should be involved in efforts to resolve such issues. A single
answer would, of course, be inadequate, there being so many diverse elements
and interests in the community. These matters require not only your own
independent consultation with the Counsellors as well. Although Spiritual
Assemblies are good at specifying goals, they have not yet mastered the art of
making use of the talents of individuals and rousing the mass of the friends to
action in fulfillment of such goals. Removing this deficiency would be a mark
of the maturation of these institutions...
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 19 May 1994 to a National Spiritual Assembly; ‘Unlocking
the Power of Action’, a compilation prepared by the Research Department of the
Universal House of Justice)
