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1 10.01 Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with
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2 another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one
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3 against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another
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4 up with a tender hand. Isaac Pennington 1667
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6 1030 Opening worship, introduction to Worship Sharing as a way of
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7 being in a group
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9 Topic 1: What does Quakerism mean to me
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10 In this session we'll have an opportunity to introduce
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11 ourselves and our experience of Quakerism
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13 As part of this, you're invited to bring a favourite
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14 passage to share from Quaker Faith and Practice, or any
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15 other source which has inspired you, *if you feel
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16 comfortable to do so*.
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18 direct encounter with the divine
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20 As I had forsaken all the priests, so I left the separate
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21 preachers also, and those called the most experienced people;
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22 for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my
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23 condition. And when all my hopes in them and in all men were
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24 gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell
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25 what to do, then, oh then, I heard a voice which said, "There is
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26 one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition", and
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27 when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. ... And this I knew
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28 experimentally. Fox 1647 19.02
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30 form of worship which fosters that experience:
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32 For, when I came into the silent assemblies of God�\200\231s people, I
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33 felt a secret power among them, which touched my heart; and as I
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34 gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good
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35 raised up; and so I became thus knit and united unto them,
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36 hungering more and more after the increase of this power and
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37 life whereby I might feel myself perfectly redeemed; and indeed
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38 this is the surest way to b...
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40 check understanding with discernment
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44 Topic 2: Structure of a Quaker Meeting
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45 Roles and Responsibility
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46 Nominations and finding our gifts
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48 1300 Lunch
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50 1400 Resume
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52 Topic 3: At the core of Quakerism: What makes Quakers different?
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54 Topic 4: At the core of Quakerism: Living a Quaker life
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56 Learn from me, says the Lord, I am gentle and lowly of heart
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58 Oh Lord my heart is not proud, nor haughty my eyes
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59 I have not gone after things too great, nor marvels beyond me
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60 Truly I have set my soul, in silence and peace
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61 Like a weaned child in its mother's arms, even so is my soul
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62 Oh Israel hope in the Lord, both now and for ever
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64 References to send out
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66 People's passages:
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68 [1] Advices and Queries 1: "Take heed dear Friends..."
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69 17: "Do you respect that of God in everyone..."
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70 41: "Try to live simply. ..."
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71 [2] Quaker Faith & Practice
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72 20.01: "I ask for daily bread, but not for wealth,
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73 lest I forget the poor
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74 [3] Unitarian Universalist
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75 Principle 7: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence
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76 of which we are a part."
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78 [4] Christian Old
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79 Testament, Psalm 131: "My heart is not proud..."
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81 Readings from organisers
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83 Advices and Queries
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84 42: "We do not own the world..."
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86 Quaker Faith & Practice
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87 10.01: "Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness..."
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88 19.02: "As I had forsaken all the priests...speak to
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89 my condition..."
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90 19.21: "For, when I came into the silent assemblies
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91 of God’s people..."
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92 19.47: [Fox and Penn and his sword]
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94 Further to questions about our relations with Christianity, I think
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95 this
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96 _To Lima with love_ [5],
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97 produced by Britain Yearly Meeting's Committee on Christian
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98 Relationships in 1987, is excellent, not just on that specific topic,
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99 but on what it means to be Quaker more generally.
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101 A short piece on my own understanding of being Quaker can be found in
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102 _But a way..._ [6].
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104 [1] https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/
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105 [2] https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/chapter/1/
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106 [3] https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles
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107 [4] http://hst.name/RSoF/psalm131.txt
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108 [5] http://hst.name/RSoF/tlwl.pdf
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109 [6] http://hst.name/RSoF/but_a_way.html