When the Lights Go Out: The Death of a Denomination
When the Lights Go Out: The Death of a Denomination
When a church forfeits its doctrinal convictions and then embraces ambiguity and tolerates heresy, it undermines its own credibility and embraces its own destruction
By ALBERT MOHLER
http://www.albertmohler.com/blog/?id=825
June 4, 2011
Adrian Hamilton is concerned that the Church of England "will not survive my children's lifetime and quite possibly not even my own." Writing in The Independent [London], Hamilton writes of a Church of England that remains established as the national church, but is no longer established in the hearts of the nation.
Interestingly, Hamilton argues that the very fact that the Church of England is an established state church is among the chief causes of its predicament. For most Britons, he argues, the role of the nation's state church means very little - "some exotic clothes and ritual prayers on state occasions."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
When a church forfeits its doctrinal convictions and then embraces ambiguity and tolerates heresy, it undermines its own credibility and embraces its own destruction
By ALBERT MOHLER
http://www.albertmohler.com/blog/?id=825
June 4, 2011
Adrian Hamilton is concerned that the Church of England "will not survive my children's lifetime and quite possibly not even my own." Writing in The Independent [London], Hamilton writes of a Church of England that remains established as the national church, but is no longer established in the hearts of the nation.
Interestingly, Hamilton argues that the very fact that the Church of England is an established state church is among the chief causes of its predicament. For most Britons, he argues, the role of the nation's state church means very little - "some exotic clothes and ritual prayers on state occasions."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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