Join us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 am for waiting worship.
We also have a time of worship sharing at 9:00 am prior to worship.
Waiting worship has been described by Isaac Penington who wrote in the mid 1600's :
We do not have a priest or pastor who preaches since Jesus is our priest (Hebrews 4:14).
Worship sharing is similar to guided meditation except we focus on a particular statement, question or series of questions. This helps us to explore our own experience and share with each other more deeply than we would in normal conversation. Then we are drawn into a sacred space. We try to hear how God is speaking to us personally in the other's words.
As we gather for worship, we open ourselves to God's presence and loving guidance for this is at the heart of our faith and practice.
Our worship is a time of communion and an opportunity to reach a deeper spiritual level and come to a greater sense of the nearness to the Divine source of truth and reality.
It is from this experience that any worshiper is free to share a message, a Scripture, a prayer, a hymn, or a quotation from the silence.
We also have a time of worship sharing at 9:00 am prior to worship.
Waiting worship has been described by Isaac Penington who wrote in the mid 1600's :
"Our worship is a deep exercise of our spirits before the Lord . . . we wait, in silence of the fleshly part, to hear with the new ear, what God shall please to speak inwardly in our own hearts; or outwardly through others, who speak with the new tongue. . . .
"So then, there is the sweet communion enjoyed, the sweet love flowing, the sweet peace of spirit reaped, which the Father breathes upon, and gives to his children. . . ."
We do not have a priest or pastor who preaches since Jesus is our priest (Hebrews 4:14).
Worship sharing is similar to guided meditation except we focus on a particular statement, question or series of questions. This helps us to explore our own experience and share with each other more deeply than we would in normal conversation. Then we are drawn into a sacred space. We try to hear how God is speaking to us personally in the other's words.
As we gather for worship, we open ourselves to God's presence and loving guidance for this is at the heart of our faith and practice.
Our worship is a time of communion and an opportunity to reach a deeper spiritual level and come to a greater sense of the nearness to the Divine source of truth and reality.
It is from this experience that any worshiper is free to share a message, a Scripture, a prayer, a hymn, or a quotation from the silence.
