Justin Welby refuses to take sides. He is continuing in the vein of Rowan Williams by attempting to maintain the fiction that the worldwide Anglican Communion has not already split, that Western Anglicanism\u2019s god of self-gratification \u2013 preferably obtained through homoeroticism – can somehow be reconciled with the Cross. It can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Perhaps what is worst of all is that Welby views the division in worldwide Anglicanism as something bad which should be resisted, rather than what it actually is: God separating the faithful from the unfaithful.<\/p>\n
Read it all here<\/a> (my emphasis):<\/p>\n \u201cThere is a need for new structures in the Anglican Communion, \u201cthe archbishop said, adding the issues that divide us are \u201csimple and complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n To address them \u201cwe need a new way of being in communion, not the colonial structures\u201d of the past, he said. But it was unclear as to what the solution was as each province offered its own solution to the problem, yet \u201cwe must find a way to live together, so the world will see\u201d Jesus is Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Anglican world must be a sign to the world of the power of Christ and must engage in a deliberate program of \u201cwitness, worship, evangelism, and a passion for the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe more seriously we take the Bible\u201d the more effectively we will be able to deal with our divisions, he said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Justin Welby refuses to take sides. He is continuing in the vein of Rowan Williams by attempting to maintain the fiction that the worldwide Anglican Communion has not already split, that Western Anglicanism\u2019s god of self-gratification \u2013 preferably obtained through … Continue reading