Friends are not to meet [in meetings for business] like a company of people about town or parish business ... but to wait upon the Lord.

– George Fox, Letters

We look with tender hearts, especially during meetings for worship with a concern for business, for one another’s spiritual vision. Truths of the Spirit may come from any of us.

When I came into the silent assemblies of God’s people, I felt a secret power among them, which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up; and so I became thus knit and united unto them, hungering more and more after the increase of this power and life whereby I might feel myself perfectly redeemed; and indeed this is the surest way to become a Christian....

Gospel order is life lived in God’s transforming, guiding, and sustaining power.

– Sandra Cronk,
Gospel Order (Pendle Hill pamphlet 297)