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christians gather together for fellowship and faithful reflection but efac is being led and shaped by an exciting younger generation of episcopalians many of whom are recent pilgrims on the canterbury trail and strikingly mature from richard kew in a recent issue of the living church three of this younger generation zac neubauer philip ryan and ethan magness for acna were elected to the board of efac usa at its recent meeting at trinity school for ministry and have brought new energy and purpose to the board work on the next efac conference april 4 7 2018 canterbury retreat and conference center oviedo fl and several other projects is in progress more details on the new efac usa web site soon june 12 2017 efac usa reorganisation posted by philip wainwright under efac the future of evangelicalism in tec leave a comment at the florida conferen ce mentioned in the post below there was general agreement on the subject of reviving and reorganising efac usa with a board drawn from both tec and acna according to the by laws of the moribund but still existing efac usa some of whose board members were present in florida new board members are elected by the membership at an annual meeting called for the purpose with one week s notice the annual meeting will be held at trinity school for ministry ambridge pa room 103 of the academic building on tuesday june 20th at 7 pm members entitled to vote are those who support the aims of efac usa and have paid dues the dues of those who attended the conference in florida were included in the cost of registration others wishing to be members may pay their dues at the meeting on the 20th in addition to electing new board members the location and date of our 2018 conference and other items related to the organization of efac will be discussed all members of tec or acna who believe that the bible is the final authority for all matters of faith life and worship are urged to attend check the efac usa web site www efac usa org or go to the efac usa facebook page facebook com efacusa for information about participating remotely please pray for god s guidance for those in attendance january 24 2017 efac usa posted by philip wainwright under evangelicalism 2 comments at the evangelion conference of evangelicals in the episcopal church held at trinity school for ministry in 2016 three ideas for the future found widespread support renewing our connection with evangelicals in the rest of the anglican communion through the evangelical fellowship in the anglican communion efac getting together annually and participation in our events by evangelicals who are members of the various anglican churches that have come into existence outside tec in recent years following discussions among former board members of efac usa the american branch of efac efac usa will reorganise under a board of directors composed of equal numbers of tec and acna members and have its first annual assembly at the canterbury retreat and conference center outside orlando florida from april 19 21 2017 the theme of the conference is positively evangelical and speakers include greg brewer andrew pearson and charlie holt all anglican evangelicals in the usa whether in tec or another church of the anglican tradition are invited to attend to register check the new efac usa website which will shortly be available at www efac usa org or go to the efac usa facebook page facebook com efacusa more information will be also posted on this blog please pray for a renewal of effective evangelical witness to the episcopal church and to the other american churches in the anglican tradition october 28 2016 save the date 2017 conference dates and location posted by philip wainwright under conferences for evangelicals encouragement 6 comments the 2017 conference of evangelicals in the episcopal church will be held at the diocese of central florida s canterbury retreat and conference center in oviedo just outside of orlando florida wednesday april 19th saturday april 22nd all evangelicals welcome clergy and laity egalitarian and complementarian high church and low church episcopalian and non episcopalian more details to follow here and here september 21 2016 an evangelical by any other name would smell as posted by philip wainwright under opinion 1 comment however you complete the sentence above the point is the same it s not the name but the nature that matters people have been arguing for years that the word evangelical is a hindrance to the evangelical cause and tony campolo is one of the most recent according to ian paul at christian today paul s comment i wonder how much difference it makes to non christians for us to say to them oh i m not a horrible christian like those miserable evangelicals no i am a nice kind of christian you can trust me i am not sure that those outside the christian faith find it quite so easy to draw these neat lines and i am pretty sure that god doesn t campolo believes evangelicals would be better christians if they restricted their attribution of divine authority to the red letters in the bible to the words of jesus which are printed in red in some editions paul points out the fatal consequences of doing that here and ends by saying to be evangelical means to see the bible rightly interpreted as the supreme authority in matters of life and faith if my fellow evangelicals are giving the family a bad name by their misreading then i need to stay in the family and have the conversation and guess what there are some red letters about that if a brother or sister sins go and point out the fault just between the two of you if they listen to you you have won them over matthew 18 15 to all of which i say amen the only thing i would change would be to delete the words rightly interpreted no one chooses a wrong interpretation even when they are interpreting wrongly and since god s word achieves god s purposes those of us who believe our interpretation is right and another s wrong can trust that god will be at work even in someone who is misunderstanding his word it s only when we believe that the bible or even a part of it like the part only ever printed in black is the word of man rather than the word of god that we are no longer interpreting but editing and therefore subjecting god s word to our own judgement june 21 2016 the forgiveness of sin posted by philip wainwright under evangelical theology evangelicalism 5 comments the mediæval religion of consolation perished in false comfort in remission of sins given lyingly it was the selling of absolution that ended the mediæval faith and i can tell you more it is the selling of absolution which to the end of time will 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 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