Claim. Per Moon’s own testimony (cited from Global Citizen), as the early UC matured he deliberately stopped reporting his spiritual-world perceptions to members, because “a faith that relies on unexplained or miraculous occurrences is not a healthy faith” and “miracles tend to confuse people.”
Elaboration. Per take-a-time-peace-and-do, Moon says: “All sin must be restored through redemption. It cannot be done by relying on spiritual powers. As our church began to mature, I stopped talking to members about the things that I was seeing with my heart’s eyes.”
What replaced it was a frustration-resolution model of evangelism: “My new members… believed what I taught and kept coming to me. The reason was that I opened a way for them to resolve their frustrations. Before I knew the truth, I, too, was frustrated. …Young people who sought me out found answers in the words that I spoke. They wanted to come to our church and join me on my spiritual journey.”
This atomic complicates uc-members-dont-really-believe-prayer-works-sugita-admission — which Sugita framed as a failure of UC pedagogy. Moon’s testimony suggests the de-emphasis was deliberate from the founder, not pastoral negligence. The unresolved question (see why-do-uc-members-not-really-believe-prayer-works) is whether Moon’s de-emphasis of miracle reporting was conflated by later UC culture into de-emphasis of prayer practice itself.
See also. sun-myung-moon, stark-3-42-percent-annual-growth-of-early-christianity