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WHY THE DIVINE PRINCIPLE IS NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME:

Reasons Why Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in America Has Been Able to Witness, Convert, and Keep Only a Handful of Believers from 1959-1999 and How Unificationists Can Fulfill the Three Blessings and Experience Explosive Growth

Why is it that after 40 years of sometimes heroic efforts by members of Sun Myung Moon's movement there are around, I estimate, only about one or two thousand American members? Why is it that Rev. Moon could live in America for 30 years, and the Divine Principle is not a household name? We should have thousands of dedicated members attending Sunday service in thousands of cities. In the 10 regional centers you would be lucky to find a hundred or more American adults who have been converted. (I'm not counting foreign spouses or children.) In the 40 other states you would be lucky to find 10 or 20 American adults who were witnessed to and joined.

Some think that it is a miracle that there are as many Unificationists as there is, considering Jesus had practically no one believe in him when he died. Some believe that the incredible persecution Father has received has slowed down growth. Deprogrammings and court cases are cited by others as the cause for so little growth.

I believe that the Unification Church ( UC) has made some fundamental mistakes and is to mainly to blame. I agonize over the tragic failure of the UC to b