Call for Prayer from Anglican Mainstream

Posted on July 5, 2010 
Filed under News

This just in from Canon Chris Sugden, Executive Secretary of Anglican Mainstream. –

“Reports in the press over the weekend indicate the urgent need for prayer with regard to the nomination of a new Bishop of Southwark. They follow earlier reports about the timing of the proposed changes to the Church of England’s discipline with regard to divorce being driven by the need to consider a particular candidate for Southwark. 

These reports are speculative but they remind us of the supreme importance of prayer over such appointments, and especially at the moment for the members of the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC) who choose the names to go forward to the Prime Minister and HM the Queen. It has been reported that the CNC is meeting today and tomorrow (5 and 6 July) to consider the Southwark nomination. Please pray, and encourage others to pray too, that the Holy Spirit will so control the meeting of the Commission that the person chosen is a godly person whose life and doctrine is fully in accord with the Church of England’s teaching and formularies, which means most of all in accord with the teaching of Holy Scripture. Pray also for the clergy and people of the Diocese of Southwark.

The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy:

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.  As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry [2 Timothy 4:3-5, RSV]

And may the Lord have mercy on His church.”

(Background: Gay cleric in line to become bishop in Church of England.)