Most noteworthy in this regard is the spirit of initiative
shown by believers who extend the range of their endeavours to assist others
also striving to tread a path of service. Having acquired the capacity to serve
as tutors of institute courses, they take up the challenge of accompanying
participants in their initial attempts to perform acts of service until they,
too, are ready to start their own study circles and help others do the same,
widening in this way the scope of the institute's influence and bringing eager
souls into contact with the Word of God. This particular aspect of the
institute process, which serves to multiply the number of active supporters of
the Faith in a self-perpetuating manner, holds much promise, and we hope that its
potential will be realized in the coming Plan. "Let him not be
content", are the words of the Guardian referring to every teacher of the
Cause, "until he has infused into his spiritual child so deep a longing as
to impel him to arise independently, in his turn, and devote his energies to
the quickening of other souls, and the upholding of the laws and principles
laid down by his newly adopted Faith."
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 27 December 2005 addressed to the Conference of the
Continental Boards of Counsellors)
