Contribution from Joe Woods:
Building Unity Through The Core Activities
Dear Friends,
The following passage from the 'One Common Faith' document of the Universal House Of Justice enlightens our understanding of the nature of the core activities.
"The experience of an intense and ongoing immersion in the Creative Word progressively frees one from the grip of the materialistic assumptions—what Bahá'u'lláh terms "the allusions of the embodiments of satanic fancy" —that pervade society and paralyze impulses for change. It develops in one a capacity to assist the yearning for unity on the part of friends and acquaintances to find mature and
intelligent expression. The nature of the core activities of the current Plan—children's classes, devotional meetings and study circles—permits growing numbers of persons who do not yet regard themselves as Bahá'ís to feel free to participate in the process. The result has been to bring into existence what has been aptly termed a "community of interest". As others benefit from participation and come to identify with the goals the Cause is pursuing, experience shows that they, too, are inclined to commit themselves fully to Bahá'u'lláh as active agents of His purpose. Apart from its associated objectives, therefore, wholehearted prosecution of the Plan has the potentiality of amplifying enormously the Bahá'í community's contribution to public discourse on what has become the most demanding issue facing humankind." (One Common Faith, Universal House of Justice, pg 26)
Dear Friends,
The following passage from the 'One Common Faith' document of the Universal House Of Justice enlightens our understanding of the nature of the core activities.
"The experience of an intense and ongoing immersion in the Creative Word progressively frees one from the grip of the materialistic assumptions—what Bahá'u'lláh terms "the allusions of the embodiments of satanic fancy" —that pervade society and paralyze impulses for change. It develops in one a capacity to assist the yearning for unity on the part of friends and acquaintances to find mature and
intelligent expression. The nature of the core activities of the current Plan—children's classes, devotional meetings and study circles—permits growing numbers of persons who do not yet regard themselves as Bahá'ís to feel free to participate in the process. The result has been to bring into existence what has been aptly termed a "community of interest". As others benefit from participation and come to identify with the goals the Cause is pursuing, experience shows that they, too, are inclined to commit themselves fully to Bahá'u'lláh as active agents of His purpose. Apart from its associated objectives, therefore, wholehearted prosecution of the Plan has the potentiality of amplifying enormously the Bahá'í community's contribution to public discourse on what has become the most demanding issue facing humankind." (One Common Faith, Universal House of Justice, pg 26)
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