http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/11/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/ Current Blog Project: Six Months With a Quaker Preacher Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:46:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/11/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-3150 c. wess daniels Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:16:44 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/12/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/#comment-3150 Edward, I am glad by gliche or by Spirit that you found the post and thanks for saying so. Edward, I am glad by gliche or by Spirit that you found the post and thanks for saying so.

]]> http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/11/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-3149 Edward Pearce Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:45:42 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/12/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/#comment-3149 I don't know to ascribe this to a quirk in technology or divine intervention, but a few minutes ago when I clicked the button to open this blog I got this posting from nearly eight months ago, and was unable to get more recent postings. Maybe I read this before, and just don't remember it (I seem to do that a lot) but there were a number of things said here that are worthy of deep consideration, more than I will be able to take in tonight. When I was young I went with my parents to the Methodist church, and continued to do so until I was near 30, so I have witnessed that ritual performed more than 300 times. In the nearly 30 years that I have been attending Quaker meeting the term "Lord's Supper" has taken on new meaning for me. When I hear it, I am more apt to think of the scripture from Revelation 3:20 (Behold, I stand at the door and knock) or the account of the risen Christ supping with the not yet comprhending disciples that he had met on the road to Emmaus. Certainly, all three views are important in understanding how we commune with the divine. However I am left wondering if I am not experiencing the depth of understanding that I should be receiving from the account of the night of the betrayal because I tend to block it out of my mind after all those years of witnessing the Methodists' one dimentional interpetation of it. I don’t know to ascribe this to a quirk in technology or divine intervention, but a few minutes ago when I clicked the button to open this blog I got this posting from nearly eight months ago, and was unable to get more recent postings. Maybe I read this before, and just don’t remember it (I seem to do that a lot) but there were a number of things said here that are worthy of deep consideration, more than I will be able to take in tonight.
When I was young I went with my parents to the Methodist church, and continued to do so until I was near 30, so I have witnessed that ritual performed more than 300 times. In the nearly 30 years that I have been attending Quaker meeting the term “Lord’s Supper” has taken on new meaning for me. When I hear it, I am more apt to think of the scripture from Revelation 3:20 (Behold, I stand at the door and knock) or the account of the risen Christ supping with the not yet comprhending disciples that he had met on the road to Emmaus. Certainly, all three views are important in understanding how we commune with the divine. However I am left wondering if I am not experiencing the depth of understanding that I should be receiving from the account of the night of the betrayal because I tend to block it out of my mind after all those years of witnessing the Methodists’ one dimentional interpetation of it.

]]> http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/11/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Quaker 2.0 » Blog Archive » Why Quaker 2.0? Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:18:39 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/12/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/#comment-450 [...] I ended up finding a youth ministry position at a Friends Church in Northeastern Ohio while my wife, Emily, and I were both still in college. It was there that we spent more time learning and absorbing the Quaker narrative, learning how to embody this version of Christianity. The problem then was, not so much that people on the Evangelical side of the tradition were adverse to us taking seriously notions like pacifism, simplicity, women in ministry, and sacramental living, but we realized our views were marginal in the larger body. We certainly are not the only ones within the Evangelical Friends Church to believe this stuff, but as a whole the tradition has moved away from discipling its people into the kinds of practices that cultivate Christians that look like our earlier counterparts (see my posts on Evangelicalism for more on this subject). [...] [...] I ended up finding a youth ministry position at a Friends Church in Northeastern Ohio while my wife, Emily, and I were both still in college. It was there that we spent more time learning and absorbing the Quaker narrative, learning how to embody this version of Christianity. The problem then was, not so much that people on the Evangelical side of the tradition were adverse to us taking seriously notions like pacifism, simplicity, women in ministry, and sacramental living, but we realized our views were marginal in the larger body. We certainly are not the only ones within the Evangelical Friends Church to believe this stuff, but as a whole the tradition has moved away from discipling its people into the kinds of practices that cultivate Christians that look like our earlier counterparts (see my posts on Evangelicalism for more on this subject). [...]

]]> http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/11/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Aj Schwanz » Folks Weighing In Tue, 28 Feb 2006 05:07:09 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/12/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/#comment-145 [...] Wess & Zach wrote responses to my post “Bread of Life Shouldn’t Make You Choke” (Quakes and sacraments). [...] [...] Wess & Zach wrote responses to my post “Bread of Life Shouldn’t Make You Choke” (Quakes and sacraments). [...]

]]> http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/11/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/comment-page-1/#comment-144 C. Wess Daniels Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:17:31 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2006/02/12/quakers-sacraments-and-practices/#comment-144 Zach - thanks for the comment, I look forward to reading your post about the issue, I always enjoy what you have to say. And you are right to assume my intention of what I've been saying, we need to eat together in our communities, and share our food with those in need outside our direct communities of faith - all with a "Eurcharistic meaning." I am not asking to break out the welch's and wafers on sunday morning, I am calling for something that would require more time, energy, and have more personal risk involved. Zach – thanks for the comment, I look forward to reading your post about the issue, I always enjoy what you have to say. And you are right to assume my intention of what I’ve been saying, we need to eat together in our communities, and share our food with those in need outside our direct communities of faith – all with a “Eurcharistic meaning.” I am not asking to break out the welch’s and wafers on sunday morning, I am calling for something that would require more time, energy, and have more personal risk involved.

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