{"id":18627,"date":"2013-01-27T22:39:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T03:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18627"},"modified":"2014-09-30T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:48:49","slug":"canadian-anglican-primate-fred-hiltz-preaches-at-st-johns-shaughnessy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/canadian-anglican-primate-fred-hiltz-preaches-at-st-johns-shaughnessy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Anglican Primate, Fred Hiltz, preaches at St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred Hiltz visited the three ex-ANiC parishes<\/a> in the Diocese of New Westminster this weekend in order to boost the morale of the diminished diocesan congregations.<\/p>\n

At St. John\u2019s Shaughnessy, he begins by giving his views on what has happened. To summarise:<\/p>\n

He is aware of the pain that the congregation felt on seeing parishioners leave; he doesn\u2019t mention that 800 left and 40 stayed, nor that most of the \u201cpain\u201d was experienced by the 800 whose building was seized by the diocese.<\/p>\n

Schism wounds the body of Christ. Hiltz fails to mention that his bishop, Michael Ingham, was the primary instigator of the schism when he proceeded with same-sex blessings even after primates representing the bulk of the Anglican communion begged him not to.<\/p>\n

The whole experience has been stressful.<\/i> Quite right: 40 people maintaining a building built for 800 is<\/i> stressful \u2013 and expensive.<\/p>\n

The congregation at St. John\u2019s \u2013 all 40 members \u2013 have remained \u201csteadfast\u201d, an attribute that has \u201cnot gone unnoticed\u201d and is \u201cexemplary\u201d. Since the congregation is costing the diocese $20,000 per month to maintain, it could scarcely go unnoticed and if it is, indeed, \u201cexemplary\u201d, the ACoC will be bankrupt even sooner than my most optimistic prognostications.<\/p>\n

Here is the audio of the introduction:<\/p>\n\n

Further into the sermon, Hiltz talks about his view of the place of Scripture in the Anglican Church of Canada. The Scriptures have a \u201ccentral place\u201d in the church\u201d, but are subject to the \u201ccontemporary cultural context in which they are heard\u201d. Thus, Africa\u2019s \u201ccultural context\u201d makes homosexual activity sinful, while Vancouver\u2019s makes it wholesome \u2013 all of which makes Scripture nonsense:<\/p>\n\n

Further on, Hiltz tells us that “in sexuality debates in the church, the one piece we keep missing is context, pastoral context. Who are the people God is calling us to serve?\u201d The answer to this rhetorical question appears to be: those in a homosexual lifestyle \u2013 by affirming their lifestyle as holy.<\/i><\/p>\n\n

Incurable insomniacs can listen to the entire sermon here:<\/p>\n\n

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