Reaching Out: Publishing truth - Quaker Quest style
Michael Hennessey reflects on risks and experiments
A quest is powered by questions. On a Quaker Quest these questions will be spiritual ones of profound significance to those who ask them. Seekers dare to cross the threshold of a Quaker Meeting house for the first time because something stronger than their apprehension impels them in the search for answers. In the experience of those facilitating the early Quaker Quests, the most profound question invariably concerned God. If there is no God there doesn’t seem much point in worship, or prayer, or any language of Spirit. Seekers have an intuition that the way Quakers experience and understand God is different from other Christian denominations and other faiths: ‘so tell us all about it,’ they ask.
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