Meeting for Worship
“Christians now are to be led inwardly and immediately by the Spirit of God . . . as the saints were of old.”
Robert Barclay
Unprogrammed Quaker Meetings have no paid clergy; the Meetings for Worship are held in silence with occasional Vocal Ministry. Friends believe that if they wait silently upon God, God will speak to them. The silent Meeting of Friends is therefore the sacrament of communion with God during which Friends lay themselves open to the leading of the Spirit. The Spirit’s message sometimes moves the worshiper to speak out of the silence to deliver a message in Vocal Ministry.
