tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10440952.post113223854933151793..comments2023-12-27T14:54:22.671-08:00Comments on The Kew Continuum: The Coming Demise of DeconstructionismRichard Kewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10917359509462320976noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10440952.post-1132293227158963532005-11-17T21:53:00.000-08:002005-11-17T21:53:00.000-08:00Dear Richard:Thanks for a thoughtful and thought-p...Dear Richard:<BR/><BR/>Thanks for a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece. My first time on your blog, and I'm coming back.<BR/><BR/>As a person of traditional faith who is also the father of a lesbian daughter, I find the rhetoric on both sides of this issue hurtful and discouraging. On both sides, people who are sure they are right blast away at their opponents. Where's the charity, the openness to the possibility that I might be wrong, that I might be interpreting the scriptures wrongly?<BR/><BR/>After all, scripture speaks plainly on other issues too. It clearly condemns killing and calls on us to love our enemies and pray for those who hate us. From the New Testament you can make just as strong a case for the position that Christians should not participate in war as you can for the traditional view of homosexual activity. But our Anglican church has blessed warships and provided military chaplains since the days of the Tudors.<BR/><BR/>Let's be careful about focussing on one issue alone. There are many issues on which God has spoken plainly through his Word. He tells us not to store up for ourselves treasures on earth, and yet I see many multi-million dollar cathedrals, expensive vestments, and so on. When I point this out to some of my colleagues, they immediately start to 'interpret' those commands of Jesus - in the very same way that they condemn others for 'interpreting' the verses about homosexuality.<BR/><BR/>The truth is, we're all selective literalists. Yes, may the Holy Spirit open my heart up to hear the Word of God in all its fulness, and to accept the way it challenges, not others, but me.<BR/><BR/>Yours in Christ,<BR/><BR/>Tim ChestertonTim Chestertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13676859074652475474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10440952.post-1132266183107891002005-11-17T14:23:00.000-08:002005-11-17T14:23:00.000-08:00How difficult it must be for those who are in the ...How difficult it must be for those who are in the "Religion Business" to see clearly how far Anglican/Episcopal churches have fallen.<BR/> Christ requires honest inquiry and educated decisiveness-nothing less. He has made it most clear that sin will cost us our life. He will not abide sin. Read his words. They are plain words and clear words.<BR/> The leadership of the ECUSA has failed miserably and should be removed en masse. And it should be done now. Please, please, no more talk. <BR/> For the love of God, silence. RayboAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10440952.post-1132261651722134392005-11-17T13:07:00.000-08:002005-11-17T13:07:00.000-08:00Fr. Kew:What more must God to show His answer? Al...Fr. Kew:<BR/><BR/>What more must God to show His answer? All four instruments of Anglican Unity asked ECUSA not to do what it did. All three of the instruments who have spoken after the fact have condemned the actions. The Windsor Report Committee was unified in saying that what ECUSA did was wrong.<BR/><BR/>ECUSA has refused to comply, submit and repent -- repeatedly and in contempt.<BR/><BR/>God has spoken on this issue throughout the ages through His Holy Word. The Spirit is speaking now through the consensus of Anglican opinion in conciliatory discussion and decree.<BR/><BR/>Satan has already caused the further division of the Church by acting through ECUSA's non-biblical and heretical actions. The orthodox who are ready to work towards renewal of genuine, Christian Anglicanism are responding and acting on God's clear call for us to put Christ first -- before property and before institutions. The orthodox who are hesitant to hear and act on this call do so at the risk of becoming ensnared in the heresy themselves, and possibly risking the removal of God's blessing on the future of Anglicanism altogether.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com