==Question: How can I incorporate “ministry”?
Reasons why I want to incorporate
- When I was a JW minister, my dream was to be a missionary, which involved working directly with people and seeing the effect of my work tangibly.
- However, after my depression and leaving the JWs, I noticed I became more invested in more solitary activities like writing, studying, and photography. These helped in my healing.
- But I am now feeling an itch to get out there and doing something that is more direct.
- I am contemplating returning to sign language and working with the Deaf again. (NOT NOW.)
- I am even asking myself whether I should be a “minister” but I’m unsure what that looks like in a free-religion sense. (NO.)
- I am even asking whether or not I could treat what I’m currently doing (writing and photography) as the ministry itself. But how to make them less solitary. (YES. EXPLORE THIS.)
Ministry in Jiyu Shukyo
How might I able to experience “ministering” to others directly in a free, creative spirituality?
Universalists had more missionary tendency. But not unitarian tradition.
No evangelism.
Missionary quality of kiitsu kyokai
- meditate without doctrinal theories
- free conversation (with gravity)
- create spaces of freedom
Ministry
- Imaoka failed in Japan because he didn’t know how to do free-religion ministry.
- He had bad experience in the church.
- He don’t want rituals.
- Went down the minimalist route.
- Creed of life weekly recital.
- Japanese devotion culture so people didn’t speak freely.
- No buildings.
- Imaoka failed in pedia.
- He became an educator.
Kiitsu kyokai may not need a minister like it is in the tradition in Unitarian.
- We become ministers to each other.
- Ministry is spread out.
- Create a structure then teach people how to do it.
- Balangay: keel of a ship needed for it to be centered.
- The creed is the keel.
- Balangay: keel of a ship needed for it to be centered.
Ministry is teaching others and transferring structure or teachings so they can stand even if you’re gone.
If you don’t have a ministry.
What will be the institutional structures of kiitsu kyokai?
Ministry
- How can you be a minister without being in charge.