{"id":16566,"date":"2012-05-26T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16566"},"modified":"2012-05-26T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:14:41","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-cogs-is-out-of-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-cogs-is-out-of-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada CoGS is out of ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Emerging from daylong discussions on May 25 about the future of the Anglican Church of Canada, members of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) appeared to lack ideas about what the next steps should be.<\/p>\n

In fact, members expressed feeling \u201coverwhelmed\u201d by the question of how to renew church structures.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, said that instead of hearing new ideas, he heard a lot of familiar ones following reports coming out of small group discussion. Further, he said he wasn\u2019t convinced that members were grasping the urgency of our situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have a new idea for the Anglican Church of Canada: give Christianity a try.<\/p>\n

What won\u2019t work is more of the same nonsense as typified by the questions CoGS was asked to ponder:<\/p>\n

* How might God be using the current financial situation of General Synod to tell us about our future in carrying out Vision 2019?<\/p>\n

* What might the Holy Spirit be telling us about ourselves as we grapple with the complexities of our current governance and structural challenges?<\/p>\n

* How might Jesus be leading us on a journey of spiritual renewal through the presence of indigenous peoples among us, and their witness in the Mississauga Declaration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some bright spark thought the church should \u201cclearly and proactively articulate its unique mission and ministry\u201d. Leaving aside the obvious thought that anyone who uses the word \u201cproactive\u201d is mentally constipated, it goes without saying that a church that has no \u201cunique mission and ministry\u201d\u00a0 is wasting its time trying to find ways to articulate it.<\/p>\n

It all ended in a sacred circle in which the obstinately blinkered Colin Johnson declared that the church \u201cis not any more broken than it ever was\u201d. He said much the same<\/a> in 2008 when parishes started leaving the ACoC; then there were 19 ANiC parishes, now there are 47. The ACoC is running out of money. No-one knows what to do. CoGS is \u201coverwhelmed\u201d. The situation, according the primate, Fred Hiltz, is \u201curgent\u201d. Crisis? What crisis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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