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Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Lambeth and the Anglican Communion

My Church, the Anglicans is undergoing a theological struggle. Conservative Evangelicalism versus Liberal Sacramentalism. Tearing them asunder is the question of homosexuality and women in leadership positions. What is in the heart is of more concern to God. How can I tell you what God thinks of matters that are almost 2000 years removed from the last written down text in the Bible? I know something of the mind of God through the Bible and the work of the Comforter, the one whom Jesus said he would send so we were not comfortless. If the Spirit is to count for anything, He must be part of the mind of God otherwise why would Jesus have bothered?
I sat in on a Sydney Synod as an observer a couple years ago and before one of the debates I prayed with a Synod rep from my Church that the Lord would calm him and use him to help the Synod to understand. This rep was a gay man. Synod heard him and even voted an extension of time for his speech. God will decide whether He likes gays or not, not a Synod. The way this rep spoke and the way he was received I am sure God answered our prayer together. If God had not approved of a gay in the Church, my thinking is that there would have been no extension of time by a person whose heart was touched to so move. This gay guy was just like anyone else who loved the Lord and wanted to worship Him. If he wanted to become a Priest, why should that bother me? It didn't seem to bother God when he spoke at the Synod. Or do we think God is a "hands off" God? If so, then why do we pray for peace and rain and safe travel?

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