Claim. In a 1983 Home Church address, Sun Myung Moon stated that completing home church in one’s mission field and then in one’s home town with relatives and family qualifies a member to be “truly elevated as messiah” — beyond the need for further street fundraising (MFT) or witnessing.
Elaboration. Hendricks quotes Moon directly (from-street-to-society, citing Home Church: The Words of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 1983, p. 185):
“Once your [mission field] home church is completed, …you will go to your home town and form your … home church centering on your relatives and family. Then you shall be truly elevated as messiah. Once you come to that point you will not have to do the difficult work of MFT [street fundraising] or witnessing because you will have graduated from all that.”
This is a theologically heavy claim: ordinary members can be “truly elevated as messiah” through a concrete pastoral practice. It implies a distributed messiahship downstream of True Parents — every blessed family that has completed home church operates with messianic authority in its own sphere.
Hendricks’s gloss: this is the late-1970s strategy shift from street/campus youth witnessing to neighborhood home-church model. “We did not succeed in this at that time. That does not mean that we cannot succeed today, if we return to the populist approach.”
Connects directly to believers-responsibility-as-third-providential-phase — the elevation of ordinary believers to a quasi-messianic role is the operational form of “the third responsibility.”
See also. home-church, true-parents, sun-myung-moon, believers-responsibility-as-third-providential-phase