This-essay is a9705271.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RELIGIOUS PRIORITIES SCRIPTURES CONFESSIONS LAWS 970527 Religious leaders often have difficulties in articulating their priorities. To religious leaders for whom Love is central the following key words are suggestive of appropriate priorities: HONESTY OPENNESS INTEGRITY GENTLENESS COMPASSION HUMILITY FORGIVENESS RECONCILIATION HEALING PEACEMAKING COOPERATION NURTURING CANDOR CLARITY LISTENING RESPONSIVENESS AUTHENTICITY FLEXIBILITY CREATIVITY SPONTANEITY GROWTH To religious leaders for whom Law is central the following are indicative of the proper priorities: SCRIPTURES PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS TABOOS COMMANDMENTS CONFESSIONS DISCIPLINES CONFORMITY TRADITIONS It is useful to ask what we are to do when the demands of the latter kind of religious leaders appear to us as being in conflict with what our prayerful consideration of the first set of key words which suggests what we are called to do. Can we, with personal and communal integrity, respect, honor and obey the latter kind of religious leaders when they are in positions of religious authority and power? Can the latter kind of religious leaders listen to, understand, and respect those people who take seriously the promptings of Holy Spirit in setting their own priorities --- in keeping with their prayerful consideration of words in both lists? Can religious leaders Find Common Ground through prayerful consideration of all of the words words found in both lists? If not, why not? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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