British Quakers: Mission and message - Expressing the faith
Simon Best concludes the series by considering the challenge of how we can best express our faith in the twenty-first century
For me ‘expressing our faith’ has two distinct and yet interrelated facets. The first is how we tell people about the Quaker way. The second is what our faith leads us to do – how we bear testimony to what we believe and how we let our lives speak. The first Friends had challenges in how they expressed their faith and shared their message with the world and in response they developed a strategy that was both effective in terms of tactics and grounded in that they were expressing a distinctive message worth hearing. We face the same challenge today. In an earlier article I explored whether we, as Quakers in the twenty-first century, have a message (11 October). In this article I focus on how we can communicate that message and express our faith as Quakers.
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