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Creating a possible “to-do” list for a Spiritual Assembly based on the attributes of “an evolving framework for action”, identified by the Universal House of Justice in their Ridvan 2016 message
To “progressively nurture
and refine essential capacities”
To initiate “simple acts
of service”.
To start “a systematic
process of human resource development and community building”.
To inspire “confidence” in
“believers…to share accounts of Bahá’u’lláh’s life and discuss the
implications of His Revelation and peerless Covenant”.
To encourage the “friends,
at the very grassroots of the community” to become more able “to describe
in eloquent terms their experience of a process capable of transforming
character and shaping social existence”.
To increase the “numbers
of those indigenous” to the country who, “as members of Bahá’í institutions
and agencies” will guide “the affairs” of its community.
To encourage “reliable,
generous, and sacrificial giving to the Fund”
To aim for an “unprecedented
efflorescence of individual initiative and collective action in support of
community-building activities”.
To inspire “enthusiasm” in
“selfless souls in the prime of youth” to bring “immense vigour” to “the
spiritual education of younger generations”.
To enhance “the devotional
character of the community through regular gatherings for worship”.
To “rise in capacity at
all levels of Bahá’í administration”
To increase LSA’s “readiness”
to “think in terms of process”, “to read…[its] immediate reality” and
assess…[its] resources in the [place]…where they live”, and “to make plans
on that basis”.
To encourage LSA’s committees,
task forces, liaisons, to “think in terms of process”, “to read…[its]
immediate reality” and assess…[their] resources in the [place]…where they
live”, and “to make plans on that basis”.
To increase community
members to “think in terms of process”, “to read…[their] immediate
reality” and assess…[their] resources in the [place]…where they live”, and
“to make plans on that basis”.
To maintain, as an
Assembly, and as individual believers, “an instinctive posture of learning”
and follow the rhythm and process of “study, consultation, action, and
reflection”.
To increase believers’ “appreciation
for what it means to give effect to the Teachings through social action”.
To seek and seize many “opportunities…to
offer a Bahá’í perspective on discourses prevalent in society”.
To periodically remind the
friends that we as a “global community” through all our “endeavours” are “hastening
the emergence of divine civilization by manifesting the society- building
power inherent in the Cause”
To help "the friends' growing consciousness" that by exerting “efforts” they are bringing “about
the betterment of the world” and expressing “the very purpose of religion
itself “ - efforts:
to foster inner
transformation,
to widen the circle of
unity,
to collaborate with others
in the field of service, [and]
to help populations take
charge of their own spiritual, social, and economic development…”
(Ridvan
2016 message)