Yes, I know ‘dialogue’ and ‘conversation’ mean much the same thing, so one of the words is redundant, but that’s how the diocese has described their latest tête-à-tête on the issue that is eventually going to result in the diocese becoming redundant. When you see ‘dialogue’ and ‘conversation’ not just in the same sentence but contiguously in the same sentence, rest assured, the judgment of Babel has already been visited on the perpetrators.
What succulent fruit has sprung from the dialogue conversations? Weariness, fear, anxiety, pain and polarisation.
The only question left to ask is: this is so wonderful, why has the Anglican church waited so long?
Bishops report on Marriage Canon Dialogue conversations
- A feeling of weariness
- Fear of what the vote at General Synod 2019 will mean, both in the diocese and in the rest of the Communion
- In spite of the fear, we want to stay together.
- Need to include the insights of youth and children
- Need to care for those who are feeling left out
- There is a deep longing and need to talk about scripture and theology
- There is a need to have resources, and to have pastoral care that is contextualized
- People feel polarized but they do so within the Big Tent
- Concerns about our international relationships
- There is a degree of pain avoidance
- Anxiety about being labelled
- We’re already living with diversity and we need to hold up that we’re unified in Jesus Christ
- While there is weariness and fear, there is a need to move on with courage and hope and faith
Your comment makes me think of the following scripture:
Matthew 23:27 King James Version (KJV)
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Thinking about 1 Corinthians 6:9-12
…9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.…
Berean Study Bible
If I come into the church as a greedy swindler why should I repent of my sin if homosexuallity is sanctioned? It is God’s kindness that leads us to repentance so to be kind there needs to be a stand against ALL these forms of wickedness or we will have a church that is falling away from God and from the resurrection change in ALL our lives that Christ calls us to. New life in Christ, abundant and free cannot be detoured around or the Spirit will not always strive with us, as the Old Testament prophets taught us.
Let us be washed, sanctified, justified and waiting for our redemption, rather than be ignorant of what the scripture teaches.
Babble, indeed. What a crock of dry verbiage. I cannot swallow it, makes me choke. Need to down a good long draft of Pauline Epistle to settle my stomach and clear my head.
I am not in the least surprised since many of the so-called bishops including the primate — properly called apostates – have long since dropped any allegiance to the GOD of the Scriptures and now worship the detestable “god of political expediency”. All of them should be instantly removed from office as they clearly are enemies of the GOSPEL.
Where DID these people obtain their intellectual training?
Or didn’t they?
Whenever I hear some drone on CBC Radio prattling on about how “we have to have that conversation,” I know that a conversation is the last thing they’re interested in.