‘Dublin and the Art of Dishonest Conversation’

Posted on February 2, 2011 
Filed under Opinion

Charles Raven at SPREAD looks at the just-concluded Primates’ meeting, and what he sees isn’t good.

“What about a passion for reaching the lost, for faithful teaching and preaching, for the glory and honour of Jesus Christ?”

“We might well ask ourselves what sort of Communion we are in when the chief passion of the Archbishop of Canterbury and those still willing to work with him is for ‘conversation’.  Why this preoccupation with interminable and inward looking dialogue? What about a passion for reaching the lost, for faithful teaching and preaching, for the glory and honour of Jesus Christ?

However sincere or even passionate the Primates may feel themselves to be, this is actually ‘dishonest conversation’ which displaces the gospel and is spiritually dangerous. Fundamentally, this is because ‘conversing’ has come to replace ‘confessing’…”

– Worth reading it all – including Charles’ comments on the state of the Church of England.