The Church of England Must Reject Worldliness or Face Extinction
By Lewis Brackpool, European Conservative.
t pains me to have to write this as a Christian who has become steadfast in the faith in the last few years, having been plucked out of a secular lifestyle devoid of religious ideals. I despised religion and repeated the same mantras, primarily targeting Christianity, reciting such cheap lines as, “Religion is a man-made mechanism and its primary function is to control you.”
I am now seeing the Church of England and many other denominations abandoning their responsibility to preach the Gospel, to assist repentant sinners in acknowledging their convictions, and to proclaim the good news of God’s justification and salvation in Jesus Christ. If anything, the Church has spent recent years enthusiastically affirming sin at a political and cultural level.
In John 15:18-19, we read:
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
This is one of the most important passages on the need to be willing to reject culture and the world. It emphasises that, since we Christians are called to an order higher than this world, our main task must be to prepare for salvation. There is also the equally important reminder that, no matter how much we seek to appease cultural shifts, either by passively complying or trying to outpace them altogether, we will remain hated. As we are now witnessing in real-time, the Church of England is allowing stronger ideological forces, anathema to the faith, to infiltrate and destroy Christianity from the inside.
The Obsession with ‘Diversity and Equity’
A 2003 Church of England document, self-importantly titled “Called to Act Justly,” has a whole section on “Statistics of Ethnic Origin.” It addresses a presentation by Rev. Lynda Barley, Head of Research and Statistics at the Archbishops’ Council, on the findings of an exercise commissioned by the General Synod in November 1999. Its goal was to collect data on the ethnicity of persons on the electoral roll, churchwardens, and parochial church council members. This exercise took place alongside the comprehensive revision of the electoral register in 2002. The aim was to re-educate congregations and maximise diversity in the Church of England.
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Why did the Church prioritise demographic research to achieve diversity and equity, rather than focusing on salvation and the Gospel to reach lost souls?
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