Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Bubbling Below the Surface
I have just returned from the Campus. The Bishops have finished their morning bible study. It is clear that the statement by the Sudanese Primate took centre stage in most of the groups and things are beginning to heat up. I have talked to four African and two North American Bishops. All the four Africans endorse the primate's statement and the two North Americans expressed disappointment. The danger now is for conversations to become increasingly polarized and more people going to the press to purge their frustrations. A great deal of maturity is going to be needed in those Indaba groups
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While probably unworkable because no systems are in place to enforce such a call as given by the archbishop of Sudan, he did the right thing. The four Africans are correct in their response and the disappointment of the Canadians reveals their incorrect understanding of God's view of homosexual behaviour.
Anglicans in Canada have been waiting for church leaders to clearly state that homosexual behaviour is anathema to God, and therefore to the church, and the church needs to stand against incursions of homosexual activists by disciplining them - refusing to serve communion, etc. The sad thing is that the membership qualifications of the Anglican CHurch in Canada are pathetically low - show up for three months and take communion, whether worthily or not, and you're in. Good leadership will demand Christian belief, it will demand conversion experiences, it will insist on naming sin sin [and homosexual behaviour IS sin]; good bilbical leadership will say that continued conversation is unnecessary because the truth is available, and will call for all true Christians of the Anglican heritage to seek holiness of life so as to praise Jesus Christ for the great salvation that he purchased with such a price as his own life.
Oh that Hiltz could offer such leadership, but I see that he does not. I'm disappointed.
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