Note the Diocese of Monmouth's statement on mission and priorities: "Our mission and priorities. We work with stonewall.org.uk".
That statement sums up the current direction of church and state.
The Church in Wales has initially allocated £10 million to an Evangelism Fund for dioceses to 'enact their strategies on evangelism and church growth'. The Diocese of Monmouth, soon to be headed by the first openly same sex partnered woman bishop, has targeted evangelism fund money to plug same sex relationships through @MissionMonmuth #lovewithoutlimit.
Earlier this month Anglican Mainstream published an article “The Tory Party at prayer”? If so says their Executive Secretary, Andrew Symes, the Church of England reflects the new ‘conservatism’ of the secular progressive elites, not tried and tested values.
Bishops fail to grasp the anti-Christian philosophy behind the LGBT agenda, he says:
"It is the Conservative Party which introduced the change in the definition of marriage; which has overseen and facilitated the exponential rise in ‘gender transition’, and is now pushing through the new Relationships and Sex Education programmes in schools. Rather than oppose this, or at least equip faithful Christians to understand the rapid cultural change and live distinctively in relation to it, the C of E has taken the side of the sex and gender radicals. This website has tracked many examples of this, but just in the area of education: following on from the release of Valuing All God’s Children, the C of E’s LGBT-affirming guidance on ‘homophobic and transphobic bullying’ co-written with Stonewall was released two years ago; Church of England primary schools are using the transgender lobby group Mermaids to ‘train’ staff and governors and backed by Diocesan education departments in doing so, and now senior leaders have expressed approval for the new RSE programme in this document released last week....
"No doubt many Bishops see RSE as a done deal and not worth risking the relationship between church and government; some see the new regulations as merely a way of teaching children to be positive about difference and kind to others, without understanding the anti-Christian philosophy behind the LGBT agenda. But this ideology like a virus has proved adaptable: previously attaching itself only to the political left and secular atheism, it has morphed to be find a home also among Conservative politicians and church leaders. The long march through the institutions is almost complete."
Transforming institutions means allowing drag queens to read same sex storybooks to children.
It means encouraging bishops to support pride events in which naked men parade in front of impressionable young children.
It is making a mockery of Christ's sacrifice when he was dragged through the streets to the Cross.
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“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”
I notice that the new CiW website has a list of "What we Believe" that doesn't include The Bible, The BCP or the words of Jesus. Do I still have to go to church anymore or just troll the car boot sales on a Sunday?
ReplyDeleteIMHO Fr David, you might as well go to a car boot sale. All the Church in Wales can offer you is a god who has “gone out of his way” for you. (Wow, so that’s what Jesus was doing on the cross - going out of his way for me.) No need to change anything in your life because this god accepts you as you are. Enjoy that car boot sale!
ReplyDelete'No need to change anything in your life because this god accepts you as you are.'
DeleteDaisy, that calls to mind something that my mother explained to me when I was still quite young - some time in the 1950s. I should probably explain that she came of a secular and non-observant family of the early 20th century type when there was still a faint touch of religiosity in the communal folk memory.
Some other sorts of Christians, she told me, especially Roman Catholics, have to follow certain rules and are obliged to do certain things, like 'going to church'. But if you're 'C of E' you don't really have to do anything beyond being nice to people and living a good life, because God loves us all anyway!
What you describe has deep roots!
It seems the LGBT 'love without limits' extends only to them, and thereby completely misconstrues the unconditional love of God for each one of us. As such it is sinful.
ReplyDeleteDo they have the same 'love without limits' toward other needy groups in society, or to children dying of starvation in Africa, or are they only interested in their own self-pitying and self-regarding agenda?
LW
PP. Looks like the CiW website has updated its Statement of Faith
ReplyDeletehttps://www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/faith/what-we-believe/formal-statements-faith/
This CiW Statement of Faith is ridiculous - "This is Good News, because it encourages each one of us to realise that God loves us, that he has gone out of his way to meet us in the person of his Son, in whom he accepts us as we are." As we are?? Jesus did not go around Palestine saying: "You are fine as you are, love! Don't worry about your sinful nature. Keep sinning and carry on. Just think how much the grace of God will abound." This statement shows how far the Church in Wales has fallen from the truth revealed in Jesus: and the levels of deception the Church is prepared to foist onto the people of Wales. If the "powers that be" cannot be honest and present the true and living Gospel of Jesus Christ, then it is high time we shut up shop.
ReplyDeleteSeymour
'Pecca fortiter', eh?
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