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You may be unsure because you are shy, because you are into math, because you don’t feel particularly charismatic, because you’re afraid, or because you’re a woman. I also want to speak to the group that feels so sure of a call that the possibility you will not be allowed to fulfill it is a slow poison in your relationship with God and the church.
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But for Quakers today one of the clearest ways that we practice remix is through discernment. Discernment is in fact the DJ turntable of the Quaker community, it is the space where the various tracks, or threads come together, and are mixed together by the Holy Spirit and by the discerning community.
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What I have to admit to myself, and to Jesus, is that many women in the church cannot be truly alive, truly awake, truly grateful for being women, because the church makes it so tough for them to be who God made them to be. It angers me to think of how the church has wasted the gifts and energy of women.
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On the whole, Quakers don’t worry about boundaries and labels much. Although you find the occasional schismatic or denominationalist flare-up in Quaker history, the general culture of Quakerism (especially these days) avoids policing the boundaries of the church. Quakers don’t worry about doctrines, but instead welcome anyone who wishes to engage in the practices of worship and community with us. It is really astounding to see this in practice, and it is something I have found only in Quakerism.
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When we do make a decision it is through what we call a “sense of the meeting,” it is not voting nor is it consensus, though I am sure it may seem like the latter to those on the outside looking in. But for Quakers, there really is a difference between a lowest common denominator approach, which all to often is what consensus becomes, and what we see as working toward a unity with God.
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. Another strand growing up was that “by accident” I grew up in a Friends church. Lip service was given to the possibility of being spoken to by the Spirit, but it was considered to be exceptional. And anyone who actually claimed the experience was treated with some incredulity.
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‘Big Tent’ evokes the image of the revival tent that folks used to set up just outside of town. Here differences were (in theory) set aside while people sought transformation and a new direction in their faith… ‘Big tent’ is also a prophetic challenge to the rancorous debates and condemnations that are the public face of religion today.
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Minding the Light is a bimonthly collection of personal stories from the lives of members and attenders of West Hills Friends. Each issue is organized around a query. Our stories affirm the Quaker testimony that God can be known experimentally.
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Like Magicians who use a combination of timing, trick, and distraction to create the illusion of something magical taking place, the church in Fox’s time, and dare we say in our own, often succumbs to a religion of smoke and mirrors.. From the many rituals we partake in, to the Wal-Mart-like compounds we build to house our bookstores, cafes, recording studios, a wing for all our office suites, and oh yea, a sanctuary where we worship, we the religious are often the quickest to resort to magic.
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It's surprising how powerful I still find that renunciation. And how angry it makes me, even today, that no one anywhere in the Christian Church had the balls to say that in 1981.
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When we "widen" our language to include more people, we're welcoming those who might have felt invisible in the old language--and that's an outcome that's worth some discomfort. That's a dimension of evangelism, not a political "win" for a faction of the church.
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If, as Gulley writes, it is “arrogant for any of us to suggest that we alone have most accurately discerned the true intentions of Jesus,” why would I want to join a conservative Meeting when I am liberal and then insist that the Meeting become liberal? Or, be offended that I am refused communion at a Catholic Mass? Or, to be offended by the wisdom and discernment of a society I have willingly joined.
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In addition, many of the pastors in our YM have come into the YM from other denominations – meaning a large percentage of our current pastors did not grow up in the Friends church. And so the question I began to mull over is this – is there something about the way we do ministry that somehow makes pastoral ministry in the manner of Friends less appealing?
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What would it look like for a Spirit-led, Christ-centered movement to emerge? Regardless of our theological or cultural background, we would all be deeply challenged by an authentic movement of renewal... Such a movement would call into question our conformity to the American way of life.
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The Friends Church in Newberg Oregon has a podcast and more on their Posterous blog.
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