Repentance and the Church of England
Lee Gatiss, co-ordinator of Reform London, spoke at a joint Reform London – London Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship meeting on Wednesday:
I’ve been preaching on Hebrews for the last month or so, and it’s struck me how penetrating some of the application of this book is for us today in the Church of England.
So a few weeks ago we looked on a Sunday morning at the great warning in chapter 2 verse 1 that “we must pay more careful attention to what we have heard (from Christ) lest we drift away from it.” For if we do drift, we will not escape God’s judgment. How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?…
God spoke on all the issues we’ll be discussing tonight, everything facing the Church of England, but we didn’t listen. And so the deceitfulness of sin has led us further and further away from the living God.
That probably means that it won’t be long before simple superstition takes over in the upper echelons on our Church. Anglican bishops will be going on pilgrimages to Lourdes and praying to Mary or something daft like that next.”
– Read the full talk at Reform London.
Statements by the Presiding Bishop and other TEC Leaders on Christian Theology
Peter Frank, Director of Communications of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, has assembled chilling quotes from TEC leaders – read the PDF file (direct link) at the Coalition for Realignment’s website.
While many of these quotes have been previously circulated, it’s yet another reminder that one can never assume the gospel, but that in every generation there is a need “to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
(Photo: Episcopal News Service.)
Williams hails apparitions at Lourdes
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has become the first Primate of the Church of England to accept visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes as historical fact.
In a homily at an international Mass in Lourdes on the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham last week, Dr Williams implied that he believed 18 visions of Our Lady experienced by St Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 were true…
– The Catholic Herald reports.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…