‘Who do you say that I am?’

May 31, 2017 by

from Scottish Anglican Network, posted on the Gafcon website.

This address was recently given by a priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church to a gathering of clergy and lay people in one of the more remote areas of Scotland. Many will share these reflections of deep theological and practical concern about the proposed change to Canon 31 (relating to marriage and human sexuality).

“[…] Canon 31 at present defends his teaching, his word, his Lordship. The proposed changes make a mockery of all three. It effectively teaches that we can abrogate his authority, change the meaning of his teaching, disregard his word, and so take away his Lordship, because we know better.

This is the catastrophic message that this change would send to the world. It sends the message that, deep down, we see the Jesus of the Gospels as being just a man of his own time who didn’t understand and couldn’t know what we know now. It implicitly denies that our Lord is the Alpha and the Omega, the Lord who speaks to all time. It sends the message that this fallible Jesus is not the unique Son of God, fully God and fully human, but just one of history’s many holy teachers whose words we can pick and choose from as it suits us. This change denies that Christ is Lord, that he means what he says and knows what he means.

The proposed change is uniquely divisive because it crystallizes the moment for a parting of the ways with a stark choice, and a question we must all come to answer. Is He Lord, or is He not?”

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