WOW Shocking Secrets of the New Member Ceremony Revealed!! Part II
Here are some more words that we'll probably use some other time; or I say we reserve the right to use some other time...
New Members Words of Welcome
Adapted from words by Rev. Victoria Weinstein
This community of Sugarloaf is a warm and welcoming one. We are grateful today for each one of you, that you have found your way here, and that you have decided to make a commitment to this faith community. We hope that as member of this congregation you will allow yourselves to know and to be known, to minister to and to be ministered unto, to love and to be loved, by this congregation.
We never really know what combination of fate and friendship and good luck it is that brings certain people together in this world for any purpose. But we believe that membership in the congregation calls each of us here to celebrate the fate that has drawn us together, and to regard each one a spiritual friend and a potential teacher, even of occasional hard lessons.
The relationships we form in our congregation are based on needs of the soul -- needs that render each of us vulnerable, and therefore reliant on each other's grace and goodness, and generosity of spirit. As members of this congregation we pledge to be guardians of each other's spirits, to respect the ultimate privacy of each one's human struggle, and to believe in each one's inherent dignity.
Some of our adaptations for the above words by Rev. Victoria Weinstein: add "Sugarloaf" and substitute the word "congregation" for "church". The word "church" carries some baggage for some of us.
New Members Words of Welcome
Adapted from words by Rev. Victoria Weinstein
This community of Sugarloaf is a warm and welcoming one. We are grateful today for each one of you, that you have found your way here, and that you have decided to make a commitment to this faith community. We hope that as member of this congregation you will allow yourselves to know and to be known, to minister to and to be ministered unto, to love and to be loved, by this congregation.
We never really know what combination of fate and friendship and good luck it is that brings certain people together in this world for any purpose. But we believe that membership in the congregation calls each of us here to celebrate the fate that has drawn us together, and to regard each one a spiritual friend and a potential teacher, even of occasional hard lessons.
The relationships we form in our congregation are based on needs of the soul -- needs that render each of us vulnerable, and therefore reliant on each other's grace and goodness, and generosity of spirit. As members of this congregation we pledge to be guardians of each other's spirits, to respect the ultimate privacy of each one's human struggle, and to believe in each one's inherent dignity.
Some of our adaptations for the above words by Rev. Victoria Weinstein: add "Sugarloaf" and substitute the word "congregation" for "church". The word "church" carries some baggage for some of us.
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