Tuesday, October 12, 2010

UK Bishop: "We are people of revelation, resonance and renewal" - Nazir-Ali

UK Bishop: "We are people of revelation, resonance and renewal" - Nazir-Ali
GAFCON is a movement of the Holy Spirit, says globetrotting Anglican Evangelical Missionary Statesmen

By Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
www.virtueonline.org
October 10, 2010

When we express our commitments in terms of the human person, in terms of human relationships -- in all of these ways -- we need an ecclesial way of being that supports and encourages and promotes this way of being a church in mission.

We are people of revelation. We do not believe our faith is simply about the human faculty of religiosity.

There are many Anglicans in England who believe that the Church of England is an expression of English religiosity. So the next step then is to believe that whatever the English people think -- in terms of values -- the Church endorses them. This has been said to me explicitly by members of Parliament: "You should be teaching the values of the English people." And I have said: "No, I am teaching the values of the Gospel."

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