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A touch of history

"Now what we are constantly being told is this, that we should work together, and evangelise together in particular, and not be bothered about these discussions about the nature of the Church and our different views. But this is a very false argument it seems to me. How can you evangelise truly unless you are agreed about the evangel? It seems to me to be a sheer impossibility. “If the trumpet yield an uncertain sound, who shall prepare him for the battle?” What is the gospel? I have often said that I am not surprised that the majority of people in this country today are outside the Christian Church. As they listen to the talks on the television and the wireless, and read in the newspapers, these contradictory statements that are made in the name of the Christian Church with regard the gospel of Jesus Christ how can they listen truly? The confusion in which they are to be found is a confusion that is caused by the Church herself and her discordant and contradictory voices. So I suggest that failure to be clear about the doctrine of the Church is one of the greatest hindrances to true evangelism at this present time."

DMLloyd-Jones, What is the Church? in Unity in Truth

Formation of CEEC

Issue 37 of "foundations", published by the British Evangelical Council, records the founding of CEEC in 1960. Looking at the events taking place in that decade, clearly much soul-searching was going on among evangelicals.
In April 1967 the first National Evangelical Anglican Congress was held at Keele under the leadership of John Stott. This Congress confirmed, commended and popularised the new attitude on the part of evangelical Anglicans towards ecumenism. John Stott writes: “Evangelicals in the Church of England are changing too. Not in doctrinal conviction ... but ... in stature and posture ... We have acquired a reputation for narrow partisanship and obstructionism ... We need to repent and change”.

Keele '67, The National Evangelical Anglican Congress Statement, ed Philip Crowe, 1967, p 8

The future

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