Meeting for Worship Guidelines
- Please arrive promptly for meeting to give yourself time to settle down before the start of worship and to avoid disturbing others.
- Allow at least a few minutes between vocal ministries to allow the meeting time for reflection.
- Brevity is appreciated during vocal ministry. Allow your listeners to interpret the message for themselves.
- Ministry should be a spontaneous leading of the Spirit, so try to avoid preparing in advance or speaking from a text. Speaking from your own insights is encouraged.
- While ministry during a given meeting may follow a theme, meeting for worship is not a discussion group.
- Meeting for worship is different from a support or therapy group. It may be a healing experience, but "sharing" of our difficulties is not its purpose.
- Similarly, while Quakers often have strong political and social views, meeting for worship is not intended to be a forum for political advocacy.
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