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David,
 
    Insightful reflections.  The intellectual  constructions by person(s) 
involved in EI/ICA were valuable and powerful when  they were created, but is 
my experience that persons are more ready and eager to  hear now than they 
were in the 60's, 70's and 80's.  The last church I  served doubled in size 
in 6 years, not because I was a great pastor.  It  happened because the 
insights from the EI course material gave persons who were  tired or burned by 
the rigidity of 19th century Christianity and when they had  time to process 
this "new to them" understandings, they suggested to their  friends who had 
dropped out of the church to come see if it wasn't a healing  balm to their 
spirit journey.  My biggest job was to try to keep up with  the call I 
needed to make on these "new persons" and to lay out the RS-1 to them  as a part 
of "new member orientation".  I let them know that there was no  advantage 
for them to become members since the only thing you couldn't do as a  
"non-member" that you could do as a member was be part of the Pastor-Parish  
Relations Committee and I didn't have a long line of members trying to get on  
that committee.  The only reason to join our church was if they wanted to  be 
held accountable to their vows.
    What a gift the academy was in my spirit  journey and what a gift it 
became for persons seeking a spirit journey that  embraced them where they 
were.
    Keep up the good work and find a way to save the  accumulated wisdom.  
Grace and peace, Mark
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