{"id":13481,"date":"2009-06-23T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop-elect_duncans_opening_address_to_the_acna_provincial_assembly\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:38:00","slug":"archbishop-elect_duncans_opening_address_to_the_acna_provincial_assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13481","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop-elect Duncan\u2019s Opening Address to the ACNA Provincial Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we begin in worship and end in worship, and there is much doxology in every part of these days together.  And we are here to learn and to be stretched and to be re-committed.  That\u2019s what our plenaries are all about.<\/p>\n<p>We are here to grow in fellowship and trust, to deepen in love and respect for one another, and to receive healing and forgiveness, all the while acknowledging our differences in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>We are also here to prove that a Christian Assembly \u201d\u201c at least one that wants to reach the cultures and the peoples of its increasingly lapsed and unconverted continent \u201d\u201c does not have to focus on resolutions and legislation, nor does it have to be overwhelmingly gray-headed. [More than 20% of the voting delegates of the Provincial Assembly are 25 years of age or younger!]  Even in organizing this emerging Anglican Province \u201d\u201c a Province in the mainstream of both global Anglicanism and biblical Christianity \u201d\u201c we are here to illustrate that a system of ratifying or sending-back is an alternative to spending disproportionate amounts of time on things that are, in fact, not the \u201cmain thing.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>We are also here to show what God\u2019s people have always known: just how much Godly business can be done in a tent (especially a tent) or a gym or a school or in simple accommodations.<\/p>\n<p>We are here, above all, to proclaim to the world what our God has done among us, among us sinners\u201d\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acnaassembly.org\/index2.php\/acna\/page\/83\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we begin in worship and end in worship, and there is much doxology in every part of these days together. And we are here to learn and to be stretched and to be re-committed. That\u2019s what our plenaries are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13481\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,623,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-acna-inaugural-assembly-june-2009","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}