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Relational Fellowship Our fellowship arises through prayer and inward focus, and is expressed outwardly through our engagement with one another and with the world from a place of relational respect. On September 15, 2008, after a period of several years of the church leaders reviewing our ordination programs, the Tzaddi Board of Directors finalized the requirements for new candidates for ordination and adopted this resolution about the relational nature of our work as clergy and thus the operations of the church in society: We are all centers through which Spirit emerges, fonts of co-creation with the Divine. We all are portals through which Truth can be revealed and emerge. This emergence happens through our interactions with other people, in community, and through our response to the challenges and opportunities of life. Often, truth emerges in conversation between people and is not something already fixed and established in a dogma or teaching or belief. To find the truth in the moment, we ask, “How does this touch us? Who are we with this? Who are we together?” As we evolve we are able to integrate higher and broader aspects of consciousness, and are more able to accept others’ movement and growth as expressions of the Divine, even if their beliefs or consciousness do not appear to match our own. In a healing, counseling, sacerdotal, or other outreach situation, the alignment between congregants, the church and the clergy representing the church happens through listening, dialogue, respect, and curiosity about where the inwardly experienced co-creative energy meets, heart to heart, mind to mind.We invite you to explore the ways that Tzaddi might be right for you on your path of service and growth.
Updated March 7, 2010
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