Chart of intersection between "belongings" and themes from Thomas Gates

NOTE: This chart is more extensive than the one I embedded in the previous post (I had abridged it for easier reading, but oh well). At least one reader reported to me she had trouble viewing the first chart.

Note, too, that many of the terms and phrases in the far left column come directly from Thomas Gates' pamphlet Members One of Another. The notation I used in the previous chart didn't carry over to this one... and neither did any of the links, it turns out.

Blessings,
Liz

Love and Belonging:  Consideration of how we as Friends belong to one another, to Quakerism, and to God, regardless of how long we have been among Friends.

	Belong to one another	Belong to Quakerism	Belong to God/Love
Welcome & Acceptance	provide and request care and nurture
	be there for one another (crisis of faith; marriage; memorials; clearness; etc.)
	be curious about the movement of the Spirit, of Love, in one another's lives
Shared Values	participate in one another's lives, not just knowing about each other	commit to engage in Quaker practices and disciplines	maintain Love at the center of our life and faith
		be active in the life of the Meeting during and between Meetings for Worship	waiting upon the Light in times of difficulty3
		act together and reflect together on Root and fruit of the Testimonies (indiv and corporate levels)
Transformation	share our ministries, leadings, and struggles with one another; be vulnerable with each other	be willing to seek new Light in difficult times and from difficult people; be willing to wrestle with others	be willing to grow into our measure of Light
	bear witness to the transformation of one another	provide mutual accountability and mutual encouragement	be willing to wrestle with God
Obedience		test our leadings with one another	Engage in faithfulness and a humble obedience; be willing to yield
		"exhort one another daily" to be faithful to how we are called1
Caution	feeling accepted does not provide an automatic "in" for membership; feeling accepted does not mean individualism and secularism should replace tending to the Root and minding the Light	can the Meeting allow itself to grow because of a Friend's ministry/new Light?  "what is important is not how far one has traveled, but rather one's commitment to travel this particular path we call Quakerism"2	can the Meeting allow its members to grow beyond the confines of the Meeting; can we avoid pressuring one another to conform to the Meeting's "culture"?
Challenge	inconvenience ourselves to make time for others	inconvenience ourselves to uphold Quaker practices and to grow as a Meeting	inconvenience ourselves to receive God's love, to be broken open, to be obedient to God's call

1.  Epistle XXII, by George Fox.

2.  Members One of Another, by Thomas Gates, p. 36

3.  see Epistle X, by George Fox.