Vision for our future
Roger Seal, of the Long Term Framework Working Group, writes about preparing for the future
Most of us are more comfortable, and understand and express what we believe more easily, with images than with theological abstractions, hence the well known and loved phrase ‘…not a notion but a way’ early in the Advices & queries. That refers to Christianity but it, surely, applies equally to Quakerism.
An image itself has dynamic power, and it leads on to other images as we learn and experience more. Not that any image is complete and definitive of what lies behind it – images are no more than temporary and provisional – but it can reveal an aspect of what would otherwise elude us.
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