Kindling a life of concern : spirit-led Quaker action / Jack Kirk.
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TextSeries: Pendle Hill pamphlet ; 404.Publication details: Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2009. Description: 32 p. ; 19 cmISBN: 9780875744049 (pbk.); 0875744044 (pbk.)Subject(s): Spiritual life -- Society of Friends | Discernment (Christian theology) | Quakers -- Conduct of life | Spiritual discernment -- Society of FriendsSummary: Friends speak of "concerns" as the spiritual promptings that come to us, revealing our own particular God-given responsibilities in a world that so truly needs our love and our service. When we yearn to act, help, or respond, how do we know whether that yearning comes from our own feeling of urgency or our own sense of obligation, or whether it is something more, something that the Holy Spirit is asking of us? Jack Kirk discusses how concerns arise and are opened to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? Discussion questions included.--Publisher's description.
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"October 2009."
Revised and updated version of: Creaturely Activities or Spiritually Based Concerns? published in Friends Face the World (1987)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-31)
Friends speak of "concerns" as the spiritual promptings that come to us, revealing our own particular God-given responsibilities in a world that so truly needs our love and our service. When we yearn to act, help, or respond, how do we know whether that yearning comes from our own feeling of urgency or our own sense of obligation, or whether it is something more, something that the Holy Spirit is asking of us? Jack Kirk discusses how concerns arise and are opened to us, how we may test them, and how we may find in them a center of spiritual gravity for our lives. How do we discover our callings as individuals, and what is our calling as a community of Friends? Discussion questions included.--Publisher's description.
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