peace and goodwill to all-

" the society of friends" has been a CHRIST center faith community from 1661 or there about. mr george fox is consider to be its founder and  much of its history as well as a nutshell view of long standing quaker faith and doctrines can be found by following this link www.quakers.org/belief.

however we no longer live in 1661 and 'the now"  being a a new day in a very new age  requires  new thinking's if we are  to solve the very many christian church / social / environmental illnesses that become over grown like super weeds.

quaker faith and spirituality is as near to pure pre-paul apostolic spirituality ( although many quakers look to paul and his writings with love) that i have ever witnessed during my long search for a CHRIST CENTERED spiritual home community.

i now consider myself a " modern day quaker" and i am proceeding as mmr fox did before me form the belief that what i call " the pentecost event" was not ended on that sunday when Our Father Yahweh gave to His Sons Followers His Holy Spirit.

i believe that that Holy Spirits still even now Flow to all wanting human hearts  as IT was then-

and  then  and like now IT  still teaches   us all Our Father/ Our Savior Brother would have us to know in real time  -

IT  lead us to  show Our Savior Brother Sanctifying Love  and to shine  His Mighty LIGHT into this too dark world  by our faithful love centered  deeds, works  and when needs be  by word of The Truth of His Son-

THE PUREST TRUTH HIMSELF.

also due to the newness of this day i myself reserve the spiritual right to modify as needed or  disregard in full any and all quaker past practices that Our Fathers Spirit may lead my heart beating in the hear and now to.

to my reckoning quaker thinking  was a great and most needed faithful work made by believers to free believers of  that age current  church age and all bindings and restraints that were created because they WERE good for ages past -

but that had over time and environment and contemporaneous culture morays have  become obsolete/ no long applicable/ no longer manageable /  and thus false / no long fully true and in need of being cut off like a lifeless branch from a healthy tree trunk.

over the years quaker thinking had itself become what it originally worked to over come; a community locked into its own history and thus becoming less effective and more divided as each year that passed.

enter now the day of the modern day quaker.

there  are some key differences between original quaker thinking and my modern day quaker approach that i will get into if this thread  " takes off" -

if not i will post them in my public journal for cyber posterity.

i would like your comment on this and if you can spare any - your prays/ good thoughts  in this near feeble effort work of loving service of mine gifted to my Savior Brother so that all His sisters and brother of this age may come to understand He Gave us our salvation with our faith -

we must still make our own satisfaction from following His Way of faithful love ALONE.

thinking about it now i can see no reason why a person can not continue in whatever faith or secular faith system they are now a part of -

and also be  a modern day quaker too wherever they may be.

thanks

yours truly
peter the roman
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ps - happy. restful , and peaceful sabbath to us  all.