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Faith and Practice of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2013 Resource for Faith and Practice of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends reprinted in 2019 This is a 2019 reprint. The title has been changed to reflect its changed status. The 2013 Resource for Faith and Practice includes a new introduction to make its role clear, and it has been reindexed. The statement by the Elders at Balby was incorporated in the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Vision Statement approved in 2011. The first printing of this document included the state- ment by the Elders at Balby at the beginning of the Preface, but omitted it from the Vision Statement. We have left it the way it was presented in the first printing. 2016 changes to the Vision Statement are not included in this reprint. This reprint does not reflect organizational changes since 2013. 2013 Resource for Faith & Practice i Context of 2013 Resource for Faith and Practice Note from the 2019 Faith and Practice Committee: During Annual Session 2013, a proposed revision to the complete text of Faith and Practice was considered by Baltimore Yearly Meeting. At the conclusion of the week, Friends were not in unity with approving the text. Here is the minute from 2013 that describes the following document, not as Faith and Practice, but as a resource for Faith and Practice. 2013-56 Faith and Practice Discernment. The Clerk recognized that yesterday we shared deeply around the draft Faith and Practice, speaking from our hearts. She said she would state for Friends her sense of the Meeting to test it with us. We have a current Faith and Practice. It is the 1988 version, as revised in 2001. This stands as our Faith and Practice until we reach unity to revise or replace it. A proposed new Faith and Practice (which I will call the “2013 draft”) has been brought before us. My sense is that we do not have unity to adopt this 2013 draft Faith and Practice as it stands now. This lack of unity has two parts: 1. Substance: While some Friends whole-heartedly endorse the con- tents of the 2013 draft Faith and Practice, others cannot unite with many parts of it. 2. Process: Many Friends feel overwhelmed by the task before us, finding it impossible to have meaningful discernment on so large a document all at once. Especially with regard to matters at the core of our faith, these Friends suggest that the best process would be for discernment involving deep meaningful discussions on manageable amounts of material over the course of years. Thus, we cannot adopt the 2013 draft Faith and Practice as presented, and our 1988 Faith and Practice (as revised in 2001) stands as our current Faith and Practice. However, we want to acknowledge that the 2013 draft Faith and Practice has been a gift to us, and many Friends have found it both useful and inspiring. The process of reading and discussing it has been a source of spiritual renewal among us. We do not want to discard the 2013 draft. We would like to make it available to Friends as a resource, as long as it is clear to all that it has not been adopted as our Faith and Practice. ii Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends We ask Nominating Committee to bring forward to us by next Annual Ses- sion a new Faith and Practice Revision Committee according to our Manual of Procedure. That Committee will bring forward revisions to our existing Faith and Practice in segments small enough for mean- ingful discussion and discernment. The 2013 draft might be a resource for this Committee. We recognize that our Faith and Practice may go through many incremental changes over the next few years, and we may come to rely on electronic versions in order to have the most current Faith and Practice at hand. There was much deep discussion on this topic. Many Friends united with the Clerk’s statement and talked about what a wonderful resource and gift the 2013 draft is, helping us to plumb what we believe and to explore our faith. Many felt and expressed that this discussion of Faith and Practice has been a wonderful help to Meetings. Some hoped that we could approve all but one part, “The Life of the Spirit” sec- tion, and although there was support for that idea, Friends were not in unity to do this. Continued concerns were expressed both with the substance and with the process. A number of Friends suggested some specific new process steps or changes for the way forward, including asking Nominating Committee to bring forward names for the new Committee before next Annual Session, if possible. One Friend read from the Manual of Procedure, page 14, which describes the Faith and Practice Revision Committee. This Committee is ap- pointed only when proposed revisions are presented in writing to the Yearly Meeting. The 2013 draft is the proposed revision being presented. The Clerk said that it remains clear that we are not in unity to accept the latest draft Faith and Practice, even for accepting part of it. The draft Faith and Practice, however, will be available for dissemination among the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Local Meetings as an important document. We are directing the Nominating Committee to bring forward a new Faith and Practice Revi- sion Committee when it is ready to do so, but no later than Annual Session next year. The Clerk’s initial statement was APPROVED as the sense of the meeting, with the modification that the new committee will (rather than “might”) use the 2013 draft as a resource. 2013 Resource for Faith & Practice iii Preface from 2013 Draft Faith and Practice Dearly beloved Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule or form to walk by, but that all, with the measure of light which is pure and holy, may be guided; and so in the light walking and abiding, these may be fulfilled in the Spir- it, not from the letter, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. The [Quaker] Elders at Balby: 1656 (ref: 2 Corinthians 3:6) This manual of Faith and Practice of Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends is composed of statements of faith and of advice on organization and practice con- sidered relevant for this present time. It is issued in the expectation, however, that another generation of seekers on the road toward Truth will make changes. iv Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends 2013 Resource for Faith & Practice v Who Are The Quakers of Baltimore Yearly Meeting? The Religious Society of Friends holds as the basis of its faith the belief that God endows each human being with a measure of the Divine Spirit. We believe that the gift of God’s presence and the light of God’s Truth have been available to all people at all times and in all ages. The Religious Society of Friends has no formal creed but seeks continuing revelation. Over the years Friends have made many attempts to set down the nature of their faith. Some of these statements, like the letter of George Fox to the Governor of Barbados in the 17th century or the Richmond Declaration drawn up by one group of Friends in the late 19th, have been grounded in Christian orthodoxy. Others, like the writings of Isaac Penington in the 17th century or of Thomas Kelly in the 20th, have a close kinship with the insights of mystics of many ages and many religious traditions. None speaks for all Friends or for all times. We are a religious fellowship based on common religious ideals and expe- riences rather than on creed or liturgy. Each person must prayerfully seek individual guidance and must follow the Light found within. Each will be helped by studying the developing interpretations of God in the Bible and in the ideas of the great spiritual leaders of all faiths. Help may be found as one ponders the life and the teaching of Jesus. The Divine Spirit became so wholly Jesus’s own that his teaching, example, and sacrificial life reveal thewill of God to humanity. As within ourselves we become conscious of the same Spirit (the “Inward Light” or the “Christ Within”), and as we submit ourselves to its leadings, we also are enabled to live in conformity to the will of God. Love, the outworking of the Divine Spirit, is the most potent influence that we can apply in human affairs, and this application of love to the whole of life is seen by the Reli- gious Society of Friends as the core of the Christian gospel. The immanence of God implies that all persons are children of the Divine and brothers and sisters one of another. All have the capacity to discern spiritual truth and to hold direct communion with God. No mediator, rite, or outward sacrament is a necessary condition of worship. Inspiration and guidance may be realized through meeting with others in group worship, where vision is made clearer by the shared experience of those present. We welcome to our fellowship all seekers who in spirit and in truth try to find and fol- low the will of God and who are in sympathy with the principles and practices of Friends. vi Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends Vision Statement Baltimore Yearly Meeting is a worshiping community, gathered in the presence of the Divine, affirming that of God in every person. The Yearly Meeting knits Friends from the Chesapeake to the Appalachians into the larger Religious Society of Friends.
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