Claim. The church holds the subject position in the loyalty curriculum; loyalty is practiced in the church before being practiced in family or society, because character restoration cannot happen without church-formed training.
Elaboration. “Be loyal to your society, your church, and your family. What kind of place is the church? It is the place that helps you to form and nurture your character. Due to the Fall, the church is needed. It does not stop at the family and society. The restoration of character does not happen by itself… That is why we need the church. Then where should you practice loyalty? Do so in your church before your family. Do so in your church before your society. The church is the subject; the family and society are the objects” (CSG 14.7 §2, 25-126, 1969.9.30). The structural argument is give-and-take geometry: the subject is one, central, fixed; the objects rotate around it. Misordering the subject-object relation produces, in SMM’s phrase, “great potential for failure”.