AUSTRALIA: Archbishop Peter Jensen asserts commitment to national evangelicalism
AUSTRALIA: Archbishop Peter Jensen asserts commitment to national evangelicalism
by Mark Brolly
The Melbourne Anglican
http://www.melbourne.anglican.com.au/
December 12, 2011
Archbishop Peter Jensen of Sydney has declared that the division or dismemberment of the Anglican Church of Australia is not in the best interests of Christianity in Australia. But he also asserted Sydney's right to encourage and support the growth of evangelical ministries in other dioceses.
In his Presidential Address to his Diocesan Synod in October, Dr Jensen said Sydney was not a monochrome diocese and that it honoured and respected other expressions of Anglicanism.
But he admitted there were a number of factors making the relationship with some fellow Anglicans as fraught as it had been for some time and noted that antagonism to Sydney is especially powerful in the General Synod Standing Committee and in the General Synod electoral system.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Mark Brolly
The Melbourne Anglican
http://www.melbourne.anglican.com.au/
December 12, 2011
Archbishop Peter Jensen of Sydney has declared that the division or dismemberment of the Anglican Church of Australia is not in the best interests of Christianity in Australia. But he also asserted Sydney's right to encourage and support the growth of evangelical ministries in other dioceses.In his Presidential Address to his Diocesan Synod in October, Dr Jensen said Sydney was not a monochrome diocese and that it honoured and respected other expressions of Anglicanism.
But he admitted there were a number of factors making the relationship with some fellow Anglicans as fraught as it had been for some time and noted that antagonism to Sydney is especially powerful in the General Synod Standing Committee and in the General Synod electoral system.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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