Quaker Process in Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
In the consideration of business, Friends seek the sense of the meeting, a spiritual process of corporate discernment in the Light. Pursuit of the sense of the meeting as we try to reach a decision requires us to exercise openness, sensitivity, and tenderness to one another. Quaker process fosters wisdom and a spirit of forbearance and love.
Friends are called upon to:
- Begin with centering worship.
- Listen to all messages with openness, receive them in worship, and allow for silence between them.
- Respond to the heart of the