Away everywhere bag1/13/2024 ![]() It took several tries before I finally figured out what works best for me (my last suitcase had one large compartment rather than two smaller sides), and now I finally have it down to an art-form. Those holding to the Bible’s clear teaching will be even easier to label as hateful extremists,” Ms Williams concluded.On Monday I shared my thoughts after a year of using my Away Carry On suitcase, and today I thought I’d share my packing strategy. “Changing the Church’s teaching by approving of same-sex relations will be devastating for faithful Christians in similar situations. Faithful Christians who have upheld God’s true teaching have been labelled as safeguarding risks and lost their jobs, with employers and highly paid lawyers quoting revisionist teaching from Church of England figures against them.” “The Church of England’s drift towards approving same-sex relations has been disastrous for Christians across the country. Such a radical change to the nature of repentance, to the doctrine of marriage, alters the gospel itself,” Ms. The apostolic gospel calls all people, everywhere, to repent – to turn away from their sins and towards Christ. She wrote in Christian Today: “For many years it has been clear that the driving force behind these revisionists is the not study of Scripture, nor listening to the Holy Spirit, but a relentless desire to mirror society’s values. Williams warned that revising the Church’s historic position would cause an “open rupture” in the Anglican Communion. She said bishops endorsing same-sex relations should be disciplined and removed from ministry. “ CEEC continues to believe that the Church of England’s current position on human sexuality is built on the teaching of Scripture and is therefore good for individuals and society as a whole,” a spokesperson said.Ĭhristian Concern CEO Andrea Williams called on the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to defend the Church’s core teaching on marriage and sexuality. ![]() ![]() The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) rejected the Bishop’s theological arguments and called for “robust” protections for traditional Anglicans. The Oxford Diocesan Evangelical Fellowship said it was “grieved” by Bishop Croft’s essay and that it “departs from the clear teaching of the Bible in relation to sex and marriage”. Reverend Roberts acknowledges that LGBT people have not always been treated well in the Church and that attitudes in the wider culture have shifted, but he argues these are not enough to justify a change of position. ![]() “I remain persuaded by the truth and goodness of the traditional Christian understanding that the right place for sex is only within heterosexual marriage and that any change to that position should be resisted as being unfaithful to God and harmful in its effects,” he wrote. He now believes the legal barriers to the solemnisation of same-sex marriage in the Church of England should be removed.Įvangelical leader Vaughan Roberts who is based in the Diocese of Oxford says that the Church should not change its position. It follows the Bishop of Oxford’s publication of a 52-page essay, arguing that clergy should have the freedom to bless and marry same-sex couples.īishop Steven Croft wrote that his views have changed over the last decade. Anglican evangelicals are calling on the Church of England to hold to its historic position on marriage and sexuality.
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