Anglican Church Troubles
Gary,
Here's the link to the article by Rev Dr Paul Barker "Trouble in the Anglican Church".
There's some good lines:
The crucial issue facing the Anglican Church is the issue of authority. What is our final authority? Is it the Bible? Or is it our human reason and experience? Or is it church tradition? Often Anglicans say that it is a joint authority of all of these but this never works in practice for, in the end, one sole authority must be the determining factor even though the other factors play a role.
Though the symptoms of the current crisis are to do with sexuality, the issue is one of authority: what authority from God determines Christian standards, beliefs and behaviour?
Just as each of us remains imperfect, so too does any church or denomination. Inevitably we will live in and be part of an imperfect church where some of its members will uphold wrong practices and/or doctrine. So long as heresy and immorality is not forced on congregations, ministers or people, and the official statements of a church remain biblical, then I see every reason to stay within the church and seek to reform it from within.
# posted by geoff @ 11:43 am
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