Every Ephraimite seeking to cross the river is questioned by the Gileadites. If they cannot pronounce the word “shibboleth” correctly, thus proving themselves aliens, they are slaughtered, and the Scriptures recalls that 42,000 Ephraimites are killed as a result.
I do not believe the Anglican Communion is paralyzed by a false gospel. While we recognize that our relationships are bruised and broken the gospel calls us to be reconciled, to pursue healing and to seek the counsel of the Holy Spirit. It calls all those in leadership to use their authority “not to hurt but to heal, not to destroy but to build up” and “to unite the church in a holy fellowship of truth and love.”
Brian McLaren – who will be at Lambeth July 19-24 – is quoted in this CNN story on Obama’s move to mobilize Christians on the
Leaders of GAFCON took their manifesto to England yesterday at a gathering of 750 at All Souls in Central London. Thinking Anglicans, as usual, does
More than you intend.
Maybe it’s a grudge, a sweet and sour grudge. Maybe it’s an ideology, that has proven successful in this world. Maybe it’s tribal or national or political convictions. No matter what, all of this stuff can become idolatrous, even one’s own household can be, and idolatrous stuff cannot come with us into the kingdom.
To discuss the religion of the founding fathers means to discuss religion in the United States of their time. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe were born and baptized in what Virginians of the time called “the Church,” “the Church of England,” “the Established Church,” or “the Church of Virginia.”