THE Lambeth…[Gathering] will \u201clook outwards\u201d at issues such as evangelism, climate change, and economic injustice \u2014 but will also address matters of sexuality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Welby was speaking at a virtual press conference on Wednesday afternoon, alongside the organisers of the Conference.<\/p>\n
He said that the \u201cbasic aim\u201d of the Conference would be \u201cto look outwards\u201d. The Church should express its \u201cevangelistic mission and its life of discipleship through engagement with the great challenges that the next 30 or 40 years will impose upon the vast majority of Anglicans, especially those in areas of climate fragility, and of political and other fragility.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the knock-on impact of those crises will reside around the world, and it\u2019s something that all God\u2019s people in this world, all the Churches, are called to respond to, and to respond to prophetically and also, above all, compassionately with the love of God in Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n
With this in mind, he said, some of the \u201ckey themes\u201d of the Conference would be \u201cevangelism and witness\u201d, and \u201creconciliation, both within the Church . . . but also as a reconciling agent in a world torn by war\u201d.<\/p>\n