Essays on the Quaker Vision of Gospel Order

Gospel Order, and the search for it, has shaped the Quaker experiences since George Fox. In this series of essays, Lloyd Lee Wilson explores the concept of Gospel Order as understood by early Quakers and contemporary Conservative Friends. Each essay addresses a facet of the faith and practice of Friends, articulating the ways in which Friends vision of Gospel Order has shaped their beliefs as well as their outward lives. This season Friends and readers new to Quakers will find these essays helpful to their understanding of this "peculiar people."

Unevenly wonderful. Worthy of consideration as one seeks to live Quaker ways.

This book has been published or re-published four times: 1) 1993 by Celo Valley Books of Burnsville, NC, 2) in 1996 by Pendle Hill Publications of Wallingford, PA and then in 2003 and 2007 by FGC Quaker Press. I have re-read his chapter on Meeting for Business several times.

“God, as understood in the Judeo-Christian tradition, works with and though his chosen people to carry out the divine plan for this part of creation on which we live. In clearly a subordinate way, we become co-workers with God to bring the world closer to its intended condition. To accomplish this, God bestows on each faith community the spiritual gifts that community needs to do God’s will.”

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