3. Baldwin cont. 'I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” Quaker #LambsWar is the nonviolent struggle for peace and justice.
2. In 1961, James Baldwin described social justice in society as what Quakers call the #LambsWar: “To be w God is really to be involved w some enormous, overwhelming desire, & joy, & power which you cannot control, which controls you...
1. Evangelicals have the #Rapture but Quaker have the #LambsWar since the early days (Gwyn) “The personal experience of being deconstructed & reconstructed in Christ's inward light empowered many early Friends to enter local 'steeplehouses' & confront false authority in the official Church.”
#Inspiration #Quaker Rustin said, “The only power we have is the power of our black bodies, backed up by as many white bodies as will stand w us, to go into the streets & to create social confusion by sitting in the streets...disrupting the ability of government to operate….” #nonviolence #LambsWar
From #QuakerLife / #QuakerLiving , I gave ministry (a prepared vocal message) for my faith community of #ThreeRiversMeeting in October. It's available online here www.threeriversmeeting.org/messages-and... .
Themes: #Jesus #Love #imperfection #being #beinghuman #JamesNayler #LambsWar
