Claim. The local-neighborhood (tong-ban) breakthrough movement is required because the Fall occurred in the family, not in the political center, so restoration must reverse-engineer back to the family as its smallest unit.
Elaboration. SMM gives the structural reason: “Why must we breakthrough now on the local level? The Fall happened in the family, not in the neighborhood. Do you understand? It’s the tong and ban (local community and home neighborhood). The family is the center of the local neighborhood; we must breakthrough in the family” (CSG 13.3 §2, 173-178, 1989.2.14). The principle generalizes: “What is restoration? Where must we return to? No matter how high I go in all the places under heaven, I have to come down according to circular movement, and the bottom of the cycle is the family. This is the local breakthrough” (ibid §1, 204-118, 1990.7.1). The Korean term carries combat metaphor: “the Korean word for breakthrough is gyeokpa, which is a word used in battle … It is our effort to remove all the bad habits of this satanic world” (ibid §1, 213-53, 1991.1.13). Tong-ban activity is therefore not generic evangelism but a precise indemnity reversal: return to the exact unit where corruption entered and rectify it through families.
See also. fall, restoration