Claim. Hendricks argues that Unification evangelism — “sharing the breaking news” of the True Parents — is the root method of building world peace, against the counter-view that growing the Unification Church is at odds with the goal of peace.
Elaboration. The counter-view Hendricks engages goes like this: religion is a problem (or religions are tolerable when practiced well, but the world doesn’t need a new one); True Parents founded something between a family and a culture, not a religion; therefore the Unification mission is not to grow a church. Hendricks rejects the conclusion. His response is that evangelism is causally upstream of peace-building — peace cannot be built without people first being brought into right relationship with True Parents — so church-growth and peace-building are not rivals but the same activity at different levels.
This is the book’s central apologetic and runs counter to a real strand of UC self-understanding (the “movement, not a church” framing). It will recur as a thread once enough atomics accumulate on both sides.
See also. believers-responsibility, populist-church