"One Common Faith"
If
Bahá’ís are to fulfil Bahá’u’lláh’s mandate, however, it is obviously
vital that they come to appreciate that the parallel efforts of
promoting the betterment of society and of teaching the Bahá’í Faith are
not activities competing for attention. Rather, are they reciprocal
features of one coherent global programme. Differences of approach are
determined chiefly by the differing needs and differing stages of
inquiry that the friends encounter. Because free will is an inherent
endowment of the soul, each person who is drawn to explore Bahá’u’lláh’s
teachings will need to find his own place in the never-ending continuum
of spiritual search. He will need to determine, in the privacy of his
own conscience and without pressure, the spiritual responsibility this
discovery entails. In order to exercise this autonomy intelligently,
however, he must gain both a perspective on the processes of change in
which he, like the rest of the earth’s population, is caught up and a
clear understanding of the implications for his own life. The
obligation of the Bahá’í community is to do everything in its power to
assist all stages of humanity’s universal movement towards reunion with
God. The Divine Plan bequeathed it by the Master is the means by which
this work is carried out.
Bahá'í International Community, "One Common Faith"
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