Pittsburgh vote tonight
The 143rd Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will convene tonight, Sydney time, to vote on resolutions to realign the Diocese out of the Episcopal Church and into the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. The Coalition for Realignment plans to post live results on their website.
Doubtless, the delegates would be grateful for your prayers as they meet.
Why Anglican? – Phillip Jensen
It is a strange phenomenon when your friends and enemies agree about you. But Sydney Anglicans enjoy this peculiarity. Neither friends nor enemies think we believe in Anglicanism. …
Anglican Christians have never believed in the sociological Anglicanism. We have always been Confessional Anglicans. We are Anglicans because we profess the Anglican beliefs of the Book of Common Prayer and the 39 Articles of Religion. These include the great creeds of the ancient worldwide church (the Apostles, Nicene and Athanasian Creeds). …
– Phillip Jensen, Dean of Sydney, writes in this weekend’s Cathedral newsletter.
An idea for your church?
Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology read by 800 members of one church.
Hunter Street Baptist Church in Hoover, Alabama is the largest Baptist church in its state, averaging 4,500 attendees each weekend. Six years ago pastor Buddy Gray started a theology reading group with nine other men and chose Dr. Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology as their beginning text. …
– Story from Koinonia.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…