Smaller churches are ones to spearhead a conservative Anglican breakaway

Sep 26, 2016 by

by Julian Mann, TCW:

Following the ReNew Conference of English conservative Anglicans in Leeds last week, it is worth considering the potential for radical action among the large churches leading the movement.

ReNew, whose first ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ conference was in 2013, is a partnership between Reform and the Church Society, both evangelical networks within the Church of England, and the Anglican Mission in England outside the institutional structures.

With the leadership of the Church of England now seemingly unwilling to defend the biblical teaching that the only right context for the expression of sexual love is heterosexual marriage, are English conservative Anglicans capable of forming their own equivalent of the break-out Anglican Church in North America if faithfulness to the gospel so requires?

It is to be prayerfully hoped that all would be but it must not be assumed that every one of the large conservative suburban and university churches would be in the vanguard. The reason for this is perhaps difficult for overseas readers to understand. But it is to do with the institutional proclivities of the suburban English middle classes fuelled by boarding school education and the liberal Oxbridge ethos of the established professions.

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Editor’s note: This article represents one side of a debate about the future of orthodox Anglicanism in Britain. If readers have a different view – perhaps, for example from a large suburban evangelical church – we would like to hear from you. Contact us here

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