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1 10.01 Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with
2 another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one
3 against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another
4 up with a tender hand. Isaac Pennington 1667
5
6 1030 Opening worship, introduction to Worship Sharing as a way of
7 being in a group
8
9 Topic 1: What does Quakerism mean to me
10 In this session we'll have an opportunity to introduce
11 ourselves and our experience of Quakerism
12
13 As part of this, you're invited to bring a favourite
14 passage to share from Quaker Faith and Practice, or any
15 other source which has inspired you, *if you feel
16 comfortable to do so*.
17
18 direct encounter with the divine
19
20 As I had forsaken all the priests, so I left the separate
21 preachers also, and those called the most experienced people;
22 for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my
23 condition. And when all my hopes in them and in all men were
24 gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell
25 what to do, then, oh then, I heard a voice which said, "There is
26 one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition", and
27 when I heard it my heart did leap for joy. ... And this I knew
28 experimentally. Fox 1647 19.02
29
30 form of worship which fosters that experience:
31
32 For, when I came into the silent assemblies of God�\200\231s people, I
33 felt a secret power among them, which touched my heart; and as I
34 gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good
35 raised up; and so I became thus knit and united unto them,
36 hungering more and more after the increase of this power and
37 life whereby I might feel myself perfectly redeemed; and indeed
38 this is the surest way to b...
39
40 check understanding with discernment
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42
43
44 Topic 2: Structure of a Quaker Meeting
45 Roles and Responsibility
46 Nominations and finding our gifts
47
48 1300 Lunch
49
50 1400 Resume
51
52 Topic 3: At the core of Quakerism: What makes Quakers different?
53
54 Topic 4: At the core of Quakerism: Living a Quaker life
55
56 Learn from me, says the Lord, I am gentle and lowly of heart
57
58 Oh Lord my heart is not proud, nor haughty my eyes
59 I have not gone after things too great, nor marvels beyond me
60 Truly I have set my soul, in silence and peace
61 Like a weaned child in its mother's arms, even so is my soul
62 Oh Israel hope in the Lord, both now and for ever
63
64 References to send out
65
66 People's passages:
67
68 [1] Advices and Queries 1: "Take heed dear Friends..."
69 17: "Do you respect that of God in everyone..."
70 41: "Try to live simply. ..."
71 [2] Quaker Faith & Practice
72 20.01: "I ask for daily bread, but not for wealth,
73 lest I forget the poor
74 [3] Unitarian Universalist
75 Principle 7: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence
76 of which we are a part."
77
78 [4] Christian Old
79 Testament, Psalm 131: "My heart is not proud..."
80
81 Readings from organisers
82
83 Advices and Queries
84 42: "We do not own the world..."
85
86 Quaker Faith & Practice
87 10.01: "Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness..."
88 19.02: "As I had forsaken all the priests...speak to
89 my condition..."
90 19.21: "For, when I came into the silent assemblies
91 of God’s people..."
92 19.47: [Fox and Penn and his sword]
93
94 Further to questions about our relations with Christianity, I think
95 this
96 _To Lima with love_ [5],
97 produced by Britain Yearly Meeting's Committee on Christian
98 Relationships in 1987, is excellent, not just on that specific topic,
99 but on what it means to be Quaker more generally.
100
101 A short piece on my own understanding of being Quaker can be found in
102 _But a way..._ [6].
103
104 [1] https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/
105 [2] https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/chapter/1/
106 [3] https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles
107 [4] http://hst.name/RSoF/psalm131.txt
108 [5] http://hst.name/RSoF/tlwl.pdf
109 [6] http://hst.name/RSoF/but_a_way.html