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