Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Conservative Anglicans struggle to agree?

This article at Episcopal Life Online talks about how the group of bishops and churches who want to split from the rest of the Anglican Communion are having trouble agreeing on certain principles.

Does this surprise anyone?

Afterall, there are more issues than equal rights for women and homosexuals that these churches have problems with. It seems to me that if a group is more willing to leave the Anglican Communion rather than compromise or accept any differences, than they are going to have trouble working with anyone who doesn't agree with them completely. Once you start creating your own theological system that is unique to only you, almost everyone else in the world will have a different idea than you.

This reminds me of the story that was not covered much a few weeks ago about how a group of evangelical, fundementalist Christian ministers got together to write a "manifesto" outlining the defining principles of conservative, fundemental (often Baptist) churches. Evidently very few of the big name pastors were willing to sign it because they didn't agree with everything it said.

Both articles show me how special inclusive churches really are in these times of divisiveness, when people who follow a man who wanted to include everyone, especially sinners, don't want to agree with even their like-minded, ultra orthodox Christians.

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