Worship is expectant silence.
No liturgy, no pulpit: Friends sit until the Spirit gives someone words worth breaking silence for.
Unprogrammed Quaker worship is an hour of shared silence in which anyone may speak if they feel genuinely moved, and often no one does. The discipline is corporate rather than private: the silence is understood to be listening together. Programmed Quaker meetings, common in parts of the United States and much of Kenya, have pastors and hymns, and the divergence between the two is the tradition's main structural split.
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