Entries in Travel in the Ministry (8)
Corporate Practice and the “Word”
Marshall Massey
in Environmental Theology, Travel in the Ministry
|
1 Comment
Neither reconciliation nor community happens unless there are two or more people involved. And they don’t happen unless there are both a tension and a harmony involved. It’s by the bringing of the tension into harmony that we know Christ, the Logos, the One who Reconciles, is manifesting among us. It’s by the arising of that harmony where only tension was before — or by the persistence of that harmony when tensions have arisen — that we know a Friends community is present.
Ministry and the “Word”
Marshall Massey
in Environmental Theology, Travel in the Ministry
|
4 Comments
They are at odds with the very thing to which they are most constantly connected!
“God Has Given Thee a Measure…”
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Discernment, Travel in the Ministry
|
14 Comments
…Our Good News is recognizable by the fact that it is received by its hearers as Good News. In other words, the ones who hear it are likely to respond both with some sort of “aha” reaction — some sense of “this really changes my understanding of the world, and in consequence, the way I want to live my life” — and with some sort of pleasure at the nature of the news.
“Going Naked for a Sign”
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Travel in the Ministry
|
8 Comments
It’s a matter of making oneself publicly visible, struggling to get by while stripped (‘naked’) of the customary protections, conveniences and tools of prosperity and power.
Traveling in the *Gospel* Ministry
Marshall Massey
in Discernment, The Big Walk, Travel in the Ministry
|
Post a Comment
Frankly, I see travel in the ministry as an activity that goes all the way to the heart of the dynamic that is Quakerism — the metaphysic, if you will, of our life as Friends. And I’d like to bring that metaphysic out into the light of day, so that we can see it more clearly.
Of Will and Ministry
Marshall Massey
in Oriens, Travel in the Ministry
|
4 Comments
And the thing about that intuition is that, if it is present in oneself, it will also manifest in some (though usually not all) of the people around one. It will tend to affect them the same way it affects oneself.
When It Became Clear, and Why
Marshall Massey
in Discernment, Oriens, Travel in the Ministry
|
3 Comments
What was it that suddenly convinced them? In the space of those few sentences, I had apparently allowed a bit of the same thing I myself had felt, when the sense of leading came to me, to come through and be visible to others more clearly.
"How Do You Know...?"
Marshall Massey
in Discernment, Oriens, Travel in the Ministry
|
3 Comments
“How do you know it’s a genuine leading?” they asked.