Claim. Through home church, Reverend Moon called for the UC spiritual community to be structured as a pluralistic religious society without parish lines — a network of locally-generated hubs, each of equal authority, where any number of Blessed couples may live in a geographical area and each is free to develop their own community.
Elaboration. Per home-church-is-a-populist-model. Moon’s stated framing: “Now is the time when the period of national level organization is over. If you are a Kim, Kwak or any other clan, you should start hoondokhae first with your own families.”
And: “the standard of activity is not in the province. It is the leaders of the district and the neighborhood… The problem is how to educate the district and the neighborhood and have it sink in… Everything comes into the district and the neighborhood.”
The structural contrast with the denominational/state-church parish system:
- Parish system: geographical area assigned to one church/pastor; one congregation per location; central authority allocates resources and leadership.
- Network-of-hubs model: any number of independent home-church hubs in the same area; each Blessed couple is responsible for their own; central authority provides parameters and gets out of the way.
The model is pluralistic: multiple simultaneous non-competing congregations in the same neighborhood. Structural form of the home-church vision (per home-church-completion-equals-messianic-elevation) at the community level.
Hendricks notes recent (2010) ministry by Hyung Jin Moon and Sun Jin Moon visiting members in their Japan houses — embodying hub-network over parish-pastor.
Why this matters: specifies the unit of populist UC structure. Not “a UC congregation per city” (parish) but “a network of blessed-family hubs per neighborhood” — growth measured by hub density and network coverage, not congregation counts.
See also. populist-church, home-church, home-church-completion-equals-messianic-elevation