[Michael] Nazir Ali traces the development and nature of the Anglican Communion, a reprint of his Latimer Booklet of 2013 \u201cHow the Anglican Communion began and where it is going\u201d. through \u2018movements of people responding to the call of God on their lives\u201d. Its renewal will come \u201c not through the reform of structures or through institutional means but through movements raised up by God\u201d for planting churches, renewal in worship, campaigners for the poor and persecuted. ( p 43)<\/p>\n
[Benjamin] Kwashi expounds the transforming power of the gospel as we seek the kingdom of God, rather than our own power and status, by relying not on our own natural power, but on God working through us by the Spirit.<\/p>\n
The relation of scripture, reason and tradition is more accurately described not as a three legged stool, but to see \u201c Scripture as a garden bed in which reason and tradition are tools used to tend the soil, unlock its nutrients and bring forth the beauty within it.\u201d ([Ashley] Null p. 86). The whole thrust of Anglican liturgy was to teach people the scriptures. The Church of England would only succeed, Cranmer held, if the English people regularly sat under the transforming power of Scripture and its message expressed in Morning and Evening Prayer and the Holy Communion. (198) The chief responsibility of Bishops is to \u201cproclaim and defend the apostolic faith as taught by the Scriptures\u201d (195) since Christian fellowship can only be based on a common understanding of saving faith (196). They show their authentic apostolic succession by what they teach and what they reject.<\/p>\n