Groups

Three persons are a minimum social group, but this is least of all the many reasons for believing in the inevitability of the Conjoint Actor. 10:2.3 39:3.6

In the Urantia Book

Celestial involvement

• The Creator Son rules supreme in all matters of ethical associations, the relations of any division of creatures to any other class of creatures or of two or more individuals within any given group 32:4.3-4
• dispensational resurrections keep groups together for long effective service 30:4.13
• groups are under jurisdiction of social architects, the seraphim that labor to enhance all sincere social contacts and to further the social evolution 39:3.4-6
• mind planner seraphim organize teamwork on mansion worlds 48:6.24-25
• The selective assorters are also of great service in the grouping of morontia personalities for purposes of study, teaching, and other projects. 48:2.24
• Solitary Messengers contribute much to the development, in all spirit beings, of a consciousness of group identity 23:4.1
• Spirit of Truth was designed to lessen the self-assertiveness of individuals, groups, nations, and races 194:3.18
• Progress within a given realm is individual, but transition from one phase to another is usually by classes. 37:6.5
• Spirit-gravity pull and response thereto operate not only on the universe as a whole but also even between individuals and groups of individuals. Spirit gravity creates cohesiveness among believers 7:1.6
• mortals may reassociate in working groups for service on mansion worlds 39:3.5
• survivors depart from mansion worlds for Jerusem in groups 47:9.3

Leadership | leadership

• effectiveness of groups depends upon leadership 81:6.37
• in all group relationships unfailingly definite leadership is provided 181:2.16

Jesus and his disciples

• Jesus invested legislative and judicial authority in the group, not in the individual. 159:1.6
• Thomas always abided by group decisions. He was a good loser. He did not hold grudges nor nurse wounded feelings. 139:8.8
• Paul was a great organizer 195:0.6

Primitive groups

• primitive man recognized advantage of association 69:2.3
• solution of Chinese irrigation problems demanded group cooperation; fostered interdependence 79:8.6

What to do

• we must perfect the ability to live in intimate contact with similar and different people, experiencing less irritability and less resentment 43:8.9
• we must achieve the willingness to submit the self to the disciplines of group activities and co-ordinated undertakings 43:8.4

Value of groups

• we can accomplish more permanent things by working with our brethren in the flesh 181:2.22
• groups anticipate and transcend individual capacities 106:3.4
• man benefits by loyalty to human associations and temporal institutions 100:2.6
• members of a group reap benefits and suffer consequences of others’ actions 12:7.11 54:6.3-4 67:7 145:2.8
• groups are vastly greater and stronger than the mere sum of their individual units. 10:5.2 68:1.4-5
• two moral creatures do not merely double their personal potentials of universe achievement by partnership technique; they more nearly quadruple their attainment and accomplishment possibilities. 43:8.11
• Religion ministers to the progress of all through fostering the progress of each individual, and the progress of each is augmented through the achievement of all. 100:0.1
• spiritual growth is stimulated by intimate association with other religionists 100:0.2
• in dealing with human personality it would be nearer the truth to say that such a personality association is a sum equal to the square of the number of personalities concerned in the equation rather than the simple arithmetical sum. 133:5.6

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• First to say “let's go” 139:8.8 — Jn 11:16.
• Lets go and die with him 139:8.8 — Jn 11:16.
• Social impact of deeds 54:6.3 — Ro 12:5; 1 Co 10:17; 1 Co 12:12-27; Eph 4:25.

Where it appears

Groups is linked in 320 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• co-operation
• family
• fellowship of believers
• friendship
• individual
• parts and the whole

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