The Radical Call To Go The Wrong Way’. Archbishop Welby’s charge to General Synod.

Feb 19, 2017 by

by Gavin Ashenden:

At the end of the recent General Synod when an alliance of orthodox Christians and pro-gay progressives defeated the Bishops’ report on Marriage and sexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury issued a rallying cry.

It had three elements:

1-  “We need a radical new Christian inclusion in the Church.

2-   “It must be based on good, healthy, flourishing relationships, and in a proper 21st century understanding of being human and of being sexual.

3-  “The way forward needs to be about love, joy and celebration of our humanity; of our creation in the image of God, of our belonging to Christ – all of us, without exception, without exclusion.”

The problem these words present, is that they involve a distortion of Christianity. They preference a non-Christian ideology that gives us a sub-Christian or even perhaps an anti-Christian version of the faith.

That is a very serious charge to make. Because if it is true, it challenges the authority of an ancient office and both the direction and integrity of the Church of England.

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