“It is the work of the Spirit that heals the Body of Christ, not the plans or the statements of any group, or any person, or any instrument of communion,” Dr. Rowan Williams said in a video address to the Fourth Global South to South Encounter.
Dozens of conservative Anglican leaders opened a five-day conference Monday in Singapore. Participants intend to build on the vision of the “One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ” as they confront the brokenness of the 77 million-member body.
They are there to discuss the Anglican Covenant ”“ a document aimed at preventing a split in the Anglican Communion.
“Initially, it was felt that a comprehensive Anglican covenant would help heal the wounds and restore confidence in our relationships within the Anglican family, as it would provide for accountability,” said retired Archbishop of Nigeria the Most Rev. Peter Akinola in his opening address Monday.
“But as things stand today in the Communion, this Encounter gathered here in Singapore needs to assure itself if the proposed covenant offers any such hope.”
Rowan’s half-truths are of legendary proportions;
“It is the work of the Spirit that heals the Body of Christ, not the plans or the statements of any group..”
This is very, very true. But God has also placed it within our domain to deal with error within the Church.
Just like in our physical bodies a doctor that cuts and the Spirit heals, so our Church leaders must cut and the Spirit heals.
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