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Permalink Reply by Karla on 1st mo. 28, 2010 at 11:00am

Thank you for opening this discusion. I grew up in the Hispanic Evangelical Friends tradition where my dad was a pastor, I discovered unprogramed worship when I was around 18 years old. I knew there was something of God in those meetings but didn't feel totally comfortable with the meetings because I knew that many of the people there and I differ in theology and in Boston many people feels led to speak about political and social issues such as peace, war, enviroment, human rights etc. and this is fine with me but I see this kind of worship as God and I time. So I kept exploring more of the branches of Quakerism and landed in Indiana where I attend Indianapolis' First Friends Church they have my perfect conbination. I know that I am worshiping with Cristcentered folks very Cristian church its programed but it also has its good mixture of unprogramed worship which helps as time of how the mesage given by God through the pastor applies to my condition. Its too bad EFCI doesnt hang out enough with FUM. I think that we both would learn from each other.

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Permalink Reply by Geoffrey Gilmore on 2nd mo. 7, 2010 at 6:49pm

It's also quite possible that if large numbers of newcomers came to our meetings, God would give messages appropriate for them, and a lot of the necessary teaching of basic doctrines would happen in meeting. That was certainly the case among early Friends, when our ideas were first being spread, and large percentages of the population became Friends in many areas.
I wonder if the tendency for the Society of Friends to turn inward, and not challenge the other churches so vocally as we did at first, may have been one reason for the decline in basic teaching during ministry, since it was assumed that most of those in meeting knew the basics.

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