In this new age of fulfillment, Bahá’u’lláh sets before each one of us the challenge to be open and responsive to the process of spiritual evolution.

Discussion ideas:

• What features of the current Plan are different from what Bahá’ís have experienced in recent decades?
• What challenges will the Bahá’í community face in the coming years? In what ways is the current Plan preparing us for them?
• What implications does ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s appeal for us to “become the very soul of the world” have for each one of us?

Further reading:

• Universal House of Justice: Ridvan message 2010, paragraph 21
• Universal House of Justice: Ridvan message 2010, paragraphs 25–33.
• The Advent of Divine Justice, page 84
• The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 182
• The Promised Day Is Come, page 118
• Selections From the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, page 3
• Selections From the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, page 20
• Selections From the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, page 34