Who are the Episcopal Majority

The post below this one was first posted at The Episcopal Majority. So, who are TEM? As far as I can tell they are a group of folks who took umbrage at a liberal coalition in pecusa calling themselves, you guessed it, The Episcopal Majority. These crafty objectors started a blog a few years ago titled, and you're way ahead of me by now, The Episcopal Majority. The point for the bloggers is that TEM is in the middle of left and right, not on one extreme or the other. TEM (blog) seeks to represent moderate beliefs in pecusa, The following gives an idea of where they're coming from:

A couple of the points would make for a good dialogue, but the statement probably marks out the middle ground to which average members of the Episcopal Church would nod assent:

* Jesus Christ is Lord – everything else is commentary
* Belief in a Trinitarian God
* Commitment to the Nicene Creed
* Holy Scripture contains all things necessary for salvation
* The Book of Common Prayer (and its teachings)
* Adherence to the Constitutions and Canons of the Episcopal Church
* More comfortable with questions than with answers
* Listen carefully for where other people are in their faith journeys
* Listen carefully for other people’s passions
* Respond to the deep spiritual yearnings of people, not to their initial verbalization
* The primary qualification for participation in the Church is that the individual is a sinner
* Everyone who comes to the Church is led there by Christ
* When people come to the Church we have to explore why … the gifts the Church has that they need to bring them closer to a saving relationship with Christ, and the gifts they bring that the Church needs to enlarge our understanding of Christ
* God is large – a lot larger than any of us can comprehend
* We are to plumb the depths and riches of Christ
* God is a God of variety; the Church should reflect that variety
* Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life: He acts with us in the Church; He acts without us outside the Church
* Walls are not a particularly good thing
* I don’t agree with everyone else (I don’t even agree with myself sometimes), but that doesn’t make either of us wrong (or right, for that matter).