What a Great Fall

May 20, 2023 by

by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:

When archbishops begin to think like Humpty Dumpty we know the church is in trouble. In Lewis Carrol’s Through the Looking Glass we read, “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’’

The Church of England in its latest report, Love Matters, commissioned by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and published in April this year, puts forward a vision of the future based on what it terms ‘love-in-action’, and for the archbishops love means something other than what it means in the Bible. It means ‘neither more nor less’ than acceptance and affirmation of that which the Bible terms sin.

Speak the Truth in Love

The ‘love in action’ proposed by the archbishops certainly does not include speaking the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). In Scripture truth and love go hand in hand and should never be separated. If we speak the truth without love we are harsh and ungracious and fall far short of the example of Christ Jesus. If we act in a supposedly ‘loving’ manner without basing what we say and do on the truth we betray Christ and confirm the other person in their error.

On numerous occasions Jesus spoke uncomfortable truths in love. He confronted the rich young ruler about his attachment to his wealth (Mark 10:17-27, and he spoke to the woman by the well about her sexual behaviour (John 4:1-26), with fruitful results (John 4:39-42).

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