Resourcing the resistance
by Martin B Davie, Latimer Trust:
[…] These developments have led to the current default position in Western culture in which God is left out of the picture, in which it is held that people have the right to determine the terms of their own existence as seems best to them, and in which the one thing you cannot say (and which you may get into serious trouble if you do say) is that people should adhere to traditional Christian sexual morality and are not able to change the sexuality identity given to them by God, and determined by their biology.
Like the Christians in Eastern Europe after the Second World War, Christians in the Western World today are faced with the choice of abandoning the traditional Christian worldview in favour of this new one, trying to find some sort of compromise position that enables them to remain Christian while abandoning the traditional Christian view of sexual morality and sexual identity, or being willing to continue to hold to a traditional, orthodox, Christian position and accept the consequences of so doing.
The Church of England is divided between those who support the second of these positions and those who support the third. The catalyst which will decide which position the Church of England officially takes will be what happens in response to House of Bishop’s set of resources for ‘Christian teaching and learning about identity, sexuality, relationships, and marriage’ which was published in November last year with the overall title Living in Love and Faith. The idea is that those in the Church of England will engage with these resources over the course the next few years and the result will be decisions about what position the Church of England as a whole will take.
Evangelical Christians need to engage with this process in order to try to ensure that the Church of England maintains a traditional, orthodox, position.
See also:
Can there be ‘good disagreement’ in the Church of England? by Ben John, Christian Concern
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