The Communal Power of Meeting for Worship

“Worshiping with others and acknolwedging their presence, the God in them, is so important to me,” Daquanna Harrison said recently. “Meeting for worship is the intentional opening of a portal—a portal of knowledge, of love, of discernment.”

Daquanna is one of several Friends who have discussed the experience of meeting for worship with us. Abel Sibonio, for example, compared communal worship to a gathering of scattered pieces of firewood; only when brought together are they able to keep the flame going. “We strengthen one another,” he explained, “and we are able to listen to those who are in need.”

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