tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post8636386084875428971..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: A query on queriesJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-64424718845288578822022-06-11T21:51:34.871-07:002022-06-11T21:51:34.871-07:00I love that we have queries between the sermon and...I love that we have queries between the sermon and open worship. When I first attended Camas Friends and saw queries, my heart leapt for joy. It had been many years since I had seen them at my old meeting. For those who are unsure of what to do during open worship it gives them something to think about and in some ways makes it easier to reply. For the more seasoned, it inspires us to dig deeper and let the spirit illuminate where we need growth and also allows us to encourage others. We aren't limited by them, they are simply a helpful guide post. Lori Jean Sherlocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-19236039414060030812022-06-11T10:27:25.601-07:002022-06-11T10:27:25.601-07:00The spirit of Christ is (note 1) drawn me out of h...The spirit of Christ is (note 1) drawn me out of habitation in the reflective nature and into worshipful habitation in the intuitive nature or direct, unmediated awareness of the Spirit's presence in my conscience. Queries are of the reflective nature, as you affirm in paragraphs 5 and 7 of your post.<br /><br />This turning of awareness toward the agency of the reflective nature and the elemental political, religious, educational, and economic conceptual agents of the reflective nature, is the very nature Christ's inshining presence has drawn me out of and is discovered to me a different habitation or nature established in direct or intuited awareness of Christ's immanent being itself in itself as my teacher and guide in matters of human relations and worship.<br /><br />This testimony to the witness of being drawn out of the agency of the reflective nature and influence of its conceptual agents to guide and inform human relations and worship, should not suggest judgement of or reflection upon the validity of a conscience and consciousness established in the reflective nature and guided and informed by its conceptual agents in the form of queries.<br /><br />In the presence of Christ, it goes against my conscience to reflect upon or oppose a conscience guided and informed through conceptual entities in the form of queries. The formality of queries is secondary or a distraction. Opposing conceptual agents in forms like queries only serves to turn opposing specific formalities into a formality itself which, in turn, diminishes awareness of Christ's presence through engagement in the agency of reflective nature; which is the primary concern. If I were to say something along the lines of "I do not engage with or attend to queries." I would be testifying to the witness of the larger experience of being drawn out of the agency of the reflective nature and all its conceptual agents (like queries) to guide and inform human relations and worship. The primary concern is not merely being drawn out of the guidance of queries (or other formalities) through the revelation of the living presence of Christ in my conscience; the primary concern is being drawn out of the reflective nature itself to guide and inform human relations and worship. This represents a significant shift in the nature of human relations and worship.<br /><br /><br />--------------<br />(Note 1): I use the present tense here in place of the past tense "has" to indicate the Holy Spirit's presence is active and living in the present moment. Awareness of Christ's presence is not something that has happened but is happening in all moments. This is not an ideal, it is a present, living and ongoing experience.kfsaylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14180375154787300539noreply@blogger.com