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The agenda includes a report back from the CEEC consultation held on 21st June and action in the light of the July’s Synod decision. We are looking at reshaping the CEEC Council, and our responsibility towards DEFs. Professor John Lennox is talking to us about militant atheism and aggressive secularism. We will also be looking at our relationship with EFAC.
The 24-hour residential starts with a Bible reading led Bishop Keith Sinclair. Please remember us in your Quiet Times.
TO make our website banner heading complete, we ought to include all the ladies who played a part in John Stott’s creation of CEEC from CPAS and Church Society. Jill Dann is one such – do you know of others? A photo would be very helpful.
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If you take the CEN you will have seen my letter asking for suggestions for a wording of a following motion when the legislation gets to Diocesan Synods. Here are two options for a diocese like mine whose bishops is strongly in favour of women bishops, and voted against the archibishops’ amendment.
This Synod, recognising the overall welcome given by General Synod to the Archbishops’ Amendment (on the legislation for the introduction of Women Bishops), and desiring to maintain the rich diversity in the Church of England, urges the Revision Committee to implement the amendment accordingly for Final Approval by the General Synod.
This Synod, acknowledging that the Archbishops’ Amendment to the legislation was only rejected by General Synod on a Division by Houses with precisely 50% of the House of Clergy voting against but actually with a significant majority of the Bishops and Laity voting in favour, and wishing to honour promises made when the Ordination of Women Priests legislation was passed, requests the Revision Committee to implement the Amendment before the Final Approval stage.
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Nigel Chetwood
Phil Almond posits these points:-
1. God and Christ did say and do, are saying and doing, will say and do all the things that the Bible says.
2. The wrath of God is a punitive wrath which is final for the objects of that wrath unless they are delivered from it.
3. All human beings (with the sole exception of Jesus Christ and Adam and Eve) are the objects of that wrath by the mere fact of being born.
4. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ propitiates God and pacifies his wrath, thus delivering from that wrath all to whom God is pleased in his mercy and grace and love (1 John 4:10) to apply, by regeneration and justification, the benefits of Christ’s death and resurrection, which application, for those possessing the necessary faculties, results in/is accompanied by repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ.
5. This deliverance achieved by this propitiation is the basic reality of the gospel, of which the other key thoughts of reconciliation, redemption, sacrifice, self-giving, sin-bearing, blood-shedding are pictures and illustrations, viewed from different standpoints, as argued by Professor James Packer in ‘Knowing God’.
My purpose in raising this matter here on the CEEC website is twofold:
1. To suggest that any consultation among those wishing to be known as evangelicals takes place in the public domain on the web and is open to all; for reasons I have tried to set out in an article recently published in the Church Society journal Churchman.
2. To suggest that such a consultation should include a completely and painfully honest debate on the 5 assertions above.
One church leader defined an Evangelical as someone who believed in the ‘C’ word – conversion – and this was more important than which Church one was a member of. Sharing conversion was more important than sharing a Church. In one of my roles I’m required to discern whether potential members are the ‘real thing’. Anyone got any suggestions that might help?
Nigel
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