{"id":20759,"date":"2013-12-10T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2013-12-10T22:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T03:53:35","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-plans-to-attract-more-people-by-lowering-the-entry-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-plans-to-attract-more-people-by-lowering-the-entry-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada plans to attract more people by lowering the entry requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

What should church hospitality look like? Is “hospitality” enough?<\/p>\n

The church has wrestled with these questions for some time, and recently in response to “open table”\u2014the practice of welcoming unbaptised people to participate in the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

At the spring 2012 meeting of the House of Bishops, the bishops opted for a broader conversation, moving from discussing open table exclusively to a conversation on hospitality and how it connects to discipleship.<\/p>\n

The bishops asked the Primate, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, to set up a task force to examine the issue. The Primate defined the task with two questions: Are there any limits to the church’s hospitality to the unbaptised? How can the church’s hospitality to the unbaptised be part of making disciples?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fallacy in this is that it presupposes eager hordes whose longing to participate in the Eucharist is thwarted only by the fact that they have not managed to get around to being baptised. All we have to do is tell them they needn\u2019t bother with baptism and churches will be filled to overflowing. It doesn\u2019t seem to occur to anyone that if a person doesn\u2019t want to be baptised, he is unlikely to want to be part of the \u00a0Eucharist.<\/p>\n

The church has been trying for some time to attract people by telling them it doesn\u2019t matter what they believe<\/a> or how they behave – a strategy which has reinforced the conviction that the church can\u2019t have much to offer if it is so easy to be a part of.<\/p>\n

Offering the Eucharist to the unbaptised in the hope that they will accept the invitation is the lunacy of repeating the same thing while expecting a different result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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