If you listen to the one currently at the top by Bishop Lillibridge, I really appreciated the bishop who shared with him that “we should be thankful that we can be thankful.”
These bishops are wonderful shepherds. I truly miss living and worshipping in the Dio. of West Texas. Heh, I’ve been wishing +David Reed would be a candidate for our opening here in Northwest Texas, even though he hasn’t been a suffragan very long. Doubt he’d want to move his family to Lubbock, though.
I like Gary…although his Texas twang is better in person than on this recording…and I think in another time he would have been a wonderful bishop…but like the Bishop of Mississippi, Duncan Grey, his persona would have been better suited to be a bishop in a 1950’s church setting of parish picnics, pot luck suppers, and summer camps…this I admit might be my problem as well.
But in this age of having to finally take sides and not straddle the middle…this report is an example of what is wrong with the House of Bishops, of why the Windsor Bishops failed, and of why a new province in North America is the only solution.
This was fluff…appeasement to a vast middle who remain uninformed…it assumes that no one has the Internet to know exactly what is going at Lambeth, and its reeks with denial…and in the vacuum created by this unwillingness to risk and lead for the gospel we have no choice but to respond with GAFCON and Common Cause Partners…
Frank,
Between us wheaties, and maybe as an encourage to those who are also called to be wheaties…I worry about Revelation 3:15-16:
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
Otherwise we end up like Lambeth…accomplishing nothing…and thereby leading people astray.
Thanks, Don. For me, I find Rev. 2:19-29 much more to the point for us at this juncture. Most relevant: “But to the rest of you…who do not hold this teaching…I do not lay upon you any other burden; only hold fast what you have, until I come.”
Witness offered in-place is not fruitless. It is not up to us to set the date for harvest, and we have no commission to depart except when we are [i]driven[/i] from the synagogue. Granted that has happened in some cases, it is not in West Texas, and we serve better to support rather than deride those bishops who still confess the faith once-given.
Have some confidence in God, even for Lambeth–he will harvest what he will, when he will.
Frank…my problem is that I didn’t hear a confession of faith, only a travelogue that seemed an avoidance of confessing or even informing…
As you know, I was driven from the church for precisely working on the inside strategy…and now work on the outside strategy…but I believe they are both needed…but remembering that the inside stradegy is not silence and avoidance…
I agree ultimately with you…Let’s pray the Lord returns…
If you listen to the one currently at the top by Bishop Lillibridge, I really appreciated the bishop who shared with him that “we should be thankful that we can be thankful.”
These bishops are wonderful shepherds. I truly miss living and worshipping in the Dio. of West Texas. Heh, I’ve been wishing +David Reed would be a candidate for our opening here in Northwest Texas, even though he hasn’t been a suffragan very long. Doubt he’d want to move his family to Lubbock, though.
I like Gary…although his Texas twang is better in person than on this recording…and I think in another time he would have been a wonderful bishop…but like the Bishop of Mississippi, Duncan Grey, his persona would have been better suited to be a bishop in a 1950’s church setting of parish picnics, pot luck suppers, and summer camps…this I admit might be my problem as well.
But in this age of having to finally take sides and not straddle the middle…this report is an example of what is wrong with the House of Bishops, of why the Windsor Bishops failed, and of why a new province in North America is the only solution.
This was fluff…appeasement to a vast middle who remain uninformed…it assumes that no one has the Internet to know exactly what is going at Lambeth, and its reeks with denial…and in the vacuum created by this unwillingness to risk and lead for the gospel we have no choice but to respond with GAFCON and Common Cause Partners…
So how’d you preach that bit about wheat and weeds Sunday, Don? Good to know at least you’re a wheatie.
Frank,
Between us wheaties, and maybe as an encourage to those who are also called to be wheaties…I worry about Revelation 3:15-16:
“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
Otherwise we end up like Lambeth…accomplishing nothing…and thereby leading people astray.
Don
Thanks, Don. For me, I find Rev. 2:19-29 much more to the point for us at this juncture. Most relevant: “But to the rest of you…who do not hold this teaching…I do not lay upon you any other burden; only hold fast what you have, until I come.”
Witness offered in-place is not fruitless. It is not up to us to set the date for harvest, and we have no commission to depart except when we are [i]driven[/i] from the synagogue. Granted that has happened in some cases, it is not in West Texas, and we serve better to support rather than deride those bishops who still confess the faith once-given.
Have some confidence in God, even for Lambeth–he will harvest what he will, when he will.
Frank…my problem is that I didn’t hear a confession of faith, only a travelogue that seemed an avoidance of confessing or even informing…
As you know, I was driven from the church for precisely working on the inside strategy…and now work on the outside strategy…but I believe they are both needed…but remembering that the inside stradegy is not silence and avoidance…
I agree ultimately with you…Let’s pray the Lord returns…