"Friend Lee;
I love your statement, "Worship in Spirit and in truth is the attitude of the heart being sensitive in humility and love to God’s work in Christ." For me, this serves as a fine defination of worship and why I feel…"
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"There's much here worth thinking (& praying) about; however it could probably be said more briefly and coherently. I, too, write in an effort to understand certain things better (& hopefully remembering to pray for the right words to…"
Barbara Smith commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'worship may be dangerous to our spiritual health.'"Lee - I appreciated your post. My response, however, is that it is not the word "worship" that is the problem, but that churches have co-opted the word to mean all the various human-invented rituals they enjoy doing. I understand it to…"
Lee Nichols posted a blog postworship may be dangerous to our spiritual health.
The purpose of my prior BBQB blogs is to highlight Quaker reliance on Scripture to construct the Quaker practices and Quaker organization. This blog examines “worship” as one of the two words where Quakers failed to follow new covenant teaching because they focused on the plain meaning of scripture in faulty translations. The study of worship starts with a dictionary definition. Worship as a verb means “to show religious reverence for: to adore or to perform acts of adoration”. It is from…See More
Adria Gulizia commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. BBQB-IV'"Thanks for this, Lee!
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Barbara Smith commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. BBQB-IV'"Lee - You are right on here! I have gotten raised eyebrows when I said the Old Quaker writings spoke to me more than any modern writings, and by "modern" I include everything written after the late 1700s! Over the past year as I have…"
Lee Nichols left a comment for Barbara Smith"My wife Monica and I would like to attend. May we bring a dessert or something? We are very close to where Elmira Meeting meets and occasionally attend there. We look forward to meeting every one. Monica and Lee"
Barbara Smith left a comment for Lee Nichols"Lee - That is wonderful! Our first meeting will be at our home in Lodi at 11 am on Feb 3. We had planned a simple soup and bread lunch for noon. We would love to have you. Let me know if you can make it and I will send directions. It is about…"
Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'Can you identify which of the following quotes are from Quaker sources? BBQB-5'"Thank you for posting this. Although there is a similarity between all, one group upholds the instincts of humans and the other posits dependence on God."
Jim Wilson commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. BBQB-IV'"Lee, I found this to be a well thought and insightful post. I find it troubling that Jones and Parker were motivated by a desire not to be 'embarrassed' by academic society. Academic views change so frequently and are so…"
Lee Nichols commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. BBQB-IV'"Thanks for the note Tamara. There are several Internet sights that focus on early Quaker writings. The most complete and searchable is maintained at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, IN. The web addresses is…"
Lee Nichols replied to Tamara Baverey /Levi's discussion 'Small acts of Violence'"Your comment about violence with a concern for children is very important. I really don't know where to find appropriate literature for children. But I would like to share sources of literature to help us respond to our children in a way that…"
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Tamara Baverey /Levi commented on Lee Nichols's blog post 'We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. BBQB-IV'"I like this and yes it is important both from todays friends and those of the passed to learn about there searchings and found truths so we can ignite and grown in our own light and unify us in one main objective . I am not so learnd in all of the…"
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- My past experience includes a Master of Divinity and four years employment in churches, then a Masters plus certification in school psychology with which I worked in a variety of settings in PA, OH, IN and NY and then retirement with my wife in IN and currently near Elmira, NY.
In the year 2000 when my friend, Monica, soon to be my wife, and I ventured off toward Mohawk Valley Friends Meeting, it was not the little we knew about Quakers that led us down the small roads toward the meeting house 30 miles away but what we had experienced in many churches, Catholic churches for Monica who rejected most of Christianity along with her Catholic childhood so that she was looking for a more personal experience with God and for me a variety of churches starting with a small Baptist Church led by small Baptist men and continuing through a variety of denomination finding an abundance of doctrine and leadership seeking to increase the churches importance by calling people to themselves more than to the overflowing, surging life and energy and might of the Spirit of Christ. What I hope our road continues to have, what I value as unique to the Quaker experience ahead of us in 2000 but behind us now is what I would like to share with others, openings which in general are the sense that meeting is not a time for ritual or ceremonies to make us pleasing to God rather our ritual pleasing to God is the way we live our life as an offering poured out to Him, and the gathering is for an intense fellowship surrounded as we are by others who receive grace to grace His presence in the gathering just as one wave magnifies another moving in the same direction by joining with it.
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worship may be dangerous to our spiritual health.
Posted on 1st mo. 27, 2013 at 8:19pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
The purpose of my prior BBQB blogs is to highlight Quaker reliance on Scripture to construct the Quaker practices and Quaker organization. This blog examines “worship” as one of the two words where Quakers failed to follow new covenant teaching because they focused on the plain meaning of scripture in faulty translations.
The study of worship starts with a dictionary definition. Worship as a verb means “to show religious reverence for: to adore or to perform acts of adoration”.…
We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. BBQB-IV
Posted on 1st mo. 15, 2013 at 11:36am 5 Comments 2 Likes
We modern Quakers are thieves but do not weep. This is unlike Margaret Fell Fox's response to the 28 year old farmer, merchant preacher's, message given before the sermon in her respectable Church of England in 1652. Respectable modern Quakers may object that they are not now in the 38 year old Margaret's position by having stolen a Christian's profession without knowing it needs to be accompanied by a renewing possession of the Spirit of Christ. We modern Quakers frequently quote the…
Continue Can you identify which of the following quotes are from Quaker sources? BBQB-5
Posted on 1st mo. 6, 2013 at 8:48pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
Can you identify which of the following quotes are from Quaker sources? Knowing Quaker from non-Quaker writing will determines how we describe ourselves as Quakers. How many of the following 10 quotes can you accurately place in or outside of early Quaker thought?
1 So if it could be proved -as it can not- .... that the Gospels were the fabrication of designing and artful men, that Jesus of Nazareth had never lived, still Christianity would stand firm, and fear no evil. None…
What was once slander is now Quaker practice - BBQB II
Posted on 12th mo. 27, 2012 at 9:20pm 22 Comments 1 Like
Quakers today who eagerly affirm the Biblical truth of the Spirit of Christ now being present, available and personally leading all who practice the Christian faith in Spirit and truth are just as eager to minimize the use of Scripture by the early Quakers. The extremely important use of Scripture is revealed in a few passages found by a review of some of Fox's writings. Fox admitted he built his beliefs and practices on the history and world view as presented in Scripture, the New…
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- At 3:25pm on 1st mo. 18, 2013, Barbara Smith said…
Lee - That is wonderful! Our first meeting will be at our home in Lodi at 11 am on Feb 3. We had planned a simple soup and bread lunch for noon. We would love to have you. Let me know if you can make it and I will send directions. It is about 1/2 hour north of Ithaca. We have 5 very interested folks so far, 4 from Ithaca and one in Cortland. So as things develop we may decide to move it to Ithaca to be more central.
Do you attend Ithaca Meeting? I look forward to meeting you and hope you can make it out here. If you would need a ride let me know.
In Christ,
Barb
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