Purpose and Action

All groups are created for a purpose. To the extent that the purpose is strong in the hearts and minds of the members, the group shall stay strong. When we get large, grow, and have to go through that inter-generational stage, things can get a little strange. The new generation must have the purpose in their hearts to keep the group going. But here's the funny thing; for the long term, the group cannot provide the purpose. The purpose must come from the members, and the group is a product of the purpose. Indeed, the group is the action of the people.
It is a form of slow death for the group to provide substitute purposes for the members. If the group chooses to do so, the members will be less and less interested in staying with the group as the difference between their true purpose and the substitute purposes becomes larger. In addition, those who stay and accept the substitute purposes become less and less innovative; the mind atrophies and the needed new ideas which would reinvigorate the group are never found.
So, for the group to survive it must exist to put the purposes of its members into action. The broader the group's charter, the more one has to worry about this sort of thing. If the group sells pens, well that's a pretty narrow need that aids a particular purpose and it's doubtful that this sort of issue will come up. But, if you want to be, say, a people, which requires people actually live as a people, well you better rather clearly have a path by which the purposes of the members are more easily acquired within the group than without.
Once more to be clear, this is because the group is the result of the member's purposes, even if some of those purposes are weird. This is how it works for families. If you help your children understand and implement their purpose, they will be more likely to stick around and keep the family ties strong. The group, the family represents a beneficial relationship in this case, and not an obstacle.