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mark false christianity pure christianity gives her remission of sins only by ending them but false christianity gets her remission of sins by compounding for them and there are many ways of compounding for them we anglicans have beautiful little quiet ways of buying absolution whether in low church or high far more cunning than any of tetzel s trading john ruskin discuss may 20 2016 clergy and laity posted by philip wainwright under evangelical theology evangelicalism evangelicalism and ordination 2 comments at the recent conference for evangelicals in the episcopal church there was much discussion of lay ministry see this post an ordinand in the church of england chris edwards makes a great contribution to that subject on the church society blog when we say the church s ministry depends on volunteers we are making a sub biblical distinction between the church on the one hand and her people on the other we restrict what we mean by the church s ministry to the corporate projects in which her leaders decide to engage and our best expectation for everyone else the volunteers is that they will wholeheartedly throw themselves into the leaders plan the distinction is subtle but it is a dangerous one because it makes the church a two tier place yes of course there must be leadership and indeed submission to leadership and i am not meaning to undermine the notion of ordination but drawing a distinction between church and volunteers does not help people marvel at the wonder of what it means to belong fully to the body of christ check it out here may 16 2016 from board of directors to spiritual elders posted by philip wainwright under opinion reformation of pecusa 2 comments a common word heard a generation or two ago was the pew cannot rise higher than the pulpit the idea that the herald of the gospel must be soaked in a regular regimen of study and prayer in order to present the congregation mature in the sight of god is easily lost in the weekly pressures of parish ministry just as preparing a balanced nutritious sermon takes forethought and space for the word to work first on the preacher s heart and then be able to be conveyed with authenticity so the spiritual life of leaders is not like the turning on or off of a light switch but is something rather to be cultivated author ruth haley barton is a practitioner of wisdom and spiritual discernment several years ago her book pursuing god s will together a discernment practice for leadership groups caught my attention i was feeling a sense that our parish leadership wasn t going into the depths i lamented that i couldn t address this very well out of my own reservoir shallow as it so often was but just as jesus summoned the early disciples to put out into the deep it felt that we were much too content with fishing the shallows and i was with them although i knew that deeper water summoned the question was were we content with our vestry being a board of directors or in some fashion were we being called to a place of spiritual eldership in our case we had already committed to becoming a learning community that is to say we would take the first forty five minutes of our monthly meetings to discuss an article or a chapter from a book that we were reading together and apply it to our church saint gabriel s these discussions were often fruitful and i would take the ideas back to the staff or work on them in my mind over the coming month and yet it also seemed as if this too was artificial and that we could either take it or leave it in other words there wasn t yet a collective conviction that we were operating as a spirit led community with certain non negotiable assumptions about being spiritual elders barton asks whether our approach to decision making is different in the church from secular models is there more to becoming a church with a biblical eldership than the perfunctory prayers that bookend the meeting does our community life mean something does it have its own integrity independent of the financial statements ministry reports and arguing over the cost of sharpening the lawnmower blades as one my clergy colleagues memorably put it if so how do we become that kind of community one thing we know is that becoming a community of spiritual discernment differs dramatically from throwing on a light switch further we also know that corporate leadership discernment around god s will presumes that each person who is called to be a spiritual elder carries the potential and responsibility in his or her individual life to cultivate a receptivity to the spirit of the lord in other words if corporate leadership is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and activity of god as a leadership group relative to the issues we are facing italics barton original it is what happens in the in between time the ordinary time in individual hearts that make up the corporate body that allows discernment to be truly corporate the practices the rules of life the habits of the heart the prayer daily office sustained bible study times of meditation or centering prayer these practices till the soil of the individual in such a way that when we come together we can practice corporate leadership discernment and fulfill our calling as spiritual elders for our congregation at saint gabriel s we are novice step takers to be sure we do not always hold up well necessarily as a model but now we have the conviction that unless we do this as a body of leaders the pew cannot rise higher than the board room if we rest content with the shallows the potential of christ s calling in us will remain just that potential one thing have i asked of the lord one thing i seek that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life psalm 27 5 christopher ditzenberger rector saint gabriel the archangel episcopal church cherry hills village colorado may 2 2016 lessons learned posted by philip wainwright under conferences for evangelicals reformation of pecusa the future of evangelicalism in tec 4 comments the recent conference called evangelion ii see posts below was a great success fifteen tec dioceses were represented as well as observers from canada and everyone seemed encouraged the plenary speakers justyn terry david collum and justin holcomb were all filmed and the results should be online in about three weeks watch this space for more information i look forward to seeing them when you re one of the organisers you only catch bits here and there but those who were able to attend to them whole spoke highly of them what i was able to participate in fully were the discussions how we got here and where do we go from here which weren t filmed so i ll say a bit about them in this and the next post respectively after an outline of the history of the evangelical movement in tec since the founding of trinity seminary we began to talk about what we could learn from this history the main themes were that the switch from being a teaching ministry for the episcopal church to being a political party within the church had been wholly negative and that the movement had been too clericalist during the 1980s and early 1990s several evangelical parishes had highly successful teaching ministries sending out sermon and teaching tapes across the country by the hundred but in the mid 1990s this seemed suddenly to be abandoned in favor of a political approach centered on general convention rather than the diocese there was much speculation about how different the history might have been had we stuck to the teaching a comment about the emphasis on recruiting evangelical clergy rather than building up evangelical laity sparked an enthusiastic response by the lay people present expressed in terms which came as a shock to some of the clergy present but when people have been under appreciated for too long it s natural to vent a bit when the opportunity to do so finally comes it was agreed by all that there was room for improvement and i personally look forward to seeing improvement as future work is discussed and planned these were by no means the only subjects discussed under the heading of learning from our past but this is enough for one post i hope the discussion can continue here just click on the link at the top of this post and type your heart out march 17 2016 expressing evangelical identity in tec schedule posted by philip wainwright under conferences for evangelicals the future of evangelicalism in tec 1 comment february 8 2016 evangelion 2016 expressing evangelical identity in the episcopal church posted by philip wainwright under conferences for evangelicals the future of evangelicalism in tec leave a comment evangelicals in the episcopal church are invited to trinity school for ministry in ambridge pa april 28 30 for the second national gathering of anglican evangelicals under the title evangelion this year s theme is expressing evangelical identity in the episcopal church and the speakers will be david collum archdeacon of albany diocese justyn terry dean of tsm and justin holcomb canon for vocations in the diocese of central florida there will also be opportunity for discussion on the more gen eral subject of evangelical witness in and to the episcopal church more details will be posted at http www evangeliontec org conference 2016 html and on this blog as they become available save the dates january 18 2016 pecusa on probation posted by philip wainwright under encouragement evangelicalism no plan b reformation of pecusa the future of evangelicalism in tec 15 comments the recent statement by the anglican primates is slightly more than i hoped for and if the statements by episcopal dignitaries and the comments on episcopal blogs are worse than i feared more fool me i suppose the primates confirmed that the traditional doctrine of the church in view of the teaching of scripture is it my imagination or there a faint tinge of regret discernible in the wording there upholds marriage as between a man and a woman in faithful lifelong union since that is the teaching of scripture albeit not in those words evangelicals will be pleased that these leading churchmen are willing to say so and would apologise on behalf of the episcopal church for all the vitriolic comments being directed their way the statement also asks the episcopal church to limit its participation in some aspects of the anglican communion and hopes for the appointment of a task group to maintain conversation among ourselves the primates presumably with the intention of restoration of relationship etc restoration of relationships with the rest of the communion presumably depends on a return to the biblical view of marriage and unlikely as that it is to happen evangelicals in the episcopal church must assume that god expects us to lift up our voices in support of that return perhaps this is the place to begin discussing how we might do that and how to be faithful in a church that seems less tolerant of us than ever perhaps there will be some time at the evangelion ii conference scheduled for may 28 30 in ambridge pa for further discussion i could certainly use a little encouragement november 26 2015 the canonical gospels still rule posted by philip wainwright under encouragement evangelical scholarship opinion the gospel truth 5 comments just finished browsing the latest issue of the journal of theological studies and found much to be thankful for of particular interest to the readers of this blog will be more reminders that the most reliable sources for knowledge of what jesus actually did and said remain matthew mark luke and john this has been generally admitted by academic scholarship for some time but has yet to percolate into the press most seminaries and too many pulpits i find myself having to challenge the idea that it s been conclusively proved that the new testament was all made up in order to repress true christianity two or three times a year if you don t you re shirking your duties so it s great to read for instance that the latest and most authoritative commentary on the gospel of thomas confirms that any relevance to historical jesus research is negligible p 805 and that agreement in substance between scholars with distinct perspectives may be indicative of the emergence of a majority opinion that considers the use of apocryphal gospels in historical jesus research to be problematic p 765 which isn t to say that the early church wasn t almost as theologically diverse as some would like to think but it does confirm that christians have been right to use the canonical gospels in order to discover what jesus actually taught rather than what he was believed to have taught it s also good to be reminded that even this real diversity was less threatening to orthodox contemporaries than the revisionists try to convince us even that hammer of heretics irenaeus spent considerable energy urging the church especially in rome to preserve its toleration for diversity p 817 finally news of a new book on the relationship between science and christianity by a professor of physics at oxford university asserting in the most vigorous terms which the reviewer found quite persuasive that the pursuit of science is a natural and important aspect of what it means to be a follower of jesus of nazareth p 898 the writer andrew steane not only believes in the resurrection but considers that the other miracles can be believed on the basis of reliable testimony and argues that miracles do not contradict the findings of even the most up to date science ibid the title is faithful to science and i can t wait to read it happy thanksgiving november 20 2015 opinion posted by philip wainwright under opinion leave a comment 21st century europe has only itself to blame for the mess it is now in for surely nowhere in the world has devoted more resources to the study of history than modern europe when i went up to oxford more than 30 years ago it was taken for granted that in the first term of my first year i would study gibbon it did no good we learned nothing that mattered indeed we learned a lot of nonsense to the effect that nationalism was a bad thing nation states worse and empires the worst things of all romans before the fall wrote ward perkins in his fall of rome were as certain as we are today that their world would continue for ever substantially unchanged they were wrong we would be wise not to repeat their complacency read it all here next page about this site i ve been an evangelical in the episcopal church the only church i ve ever joined for 25 years i love that church like a brother and speak to it like a brother here make sure you get the memo enter your email address and click follow to receive new posts by e mail email address follow search for categories categories select category book reviews calling all evangelicals conferences for evangelicals devotional eea 2009 efac encouragement episcopal church doings episcopal evangelical heritage 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