How to Build a Youth Ministry... Not!

The Anglican Church of Canada has been in decline for years. They have lost members as fast as the Episcopalians in the U.S. have been losing. In 2005, a study presented to Anglican bishops reportedly showed,

"...at the present rate of decline - a loss of 13,000 members per year - only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061."

What is driving Canadians away from the Anglican Church of Canada? Many say that it is the secularization of society. While that is likely to be one cause of the decline, false teachings and spiritually dead clergy are real millstones around the neck of the Church that are dragging it down.

Over at the Anglican Samizdat blog, example after example of false teachers and erring bishops and priests have been presented. The most recent example being of one the Rév'd Jean-Daniel who acts as Assistant Priest (Children, youth, families, and students) at Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal) and Christian Chaplain at McGill and the Université de Montréal.

Christ Church Cathedral's web site reveals that they fly the rainbow flag with pride,

"Christ Church Cathedral prides itself on being fully welcoming and affirming of LGBTQ members of our community. We display the rainbow flag near our front doors as a way of honouring this commitment publicly. In recent years, as an important part of our outreach, we have participated in the community day and the parade as part of the Montréal Pride festivities. 
While there exists no formal LGBTQ group at the Cathedral, we host activities on a regular basis which bring together those who are interested in participating. We have held OUT masses, seasonal get-togethers, BBQs and discussion groups."

All this helps explain the presence of the Rev'd Jean-Daniel at the Cathedral and why his bizarre beliefs are welcomed by some of the ever dwindling numbers of Anglicans in Canada.

Anglican Samzidat posted the following tweet from "rév Jean-Daniel  ⚜️ ⛪ 🎒 🌈 Pasteur jeunesse/youth pastor; aumonier/chaplain @McGillU ; père de jumelles parfaites/daddy to perfect twins; simply Christian in heaven, Anglican on earth"

"When, 'Hey, would you like to learn about Jesus?' doesn't work, I try, 'Hey, can you help me build a mutually supportive community to overthrow the cisheteronormative capitalist patriarchal classist empire and bring about a renewed creation?'
Because that's what I mean."

Oh yeah, that will really draw the youth to the Christ.

When people use language like, "cisheteronormative capitalist patriarchal classist empire", I usually assume that they are over-educated, over-indulged, pompous progressives who are clueless as to what spreading the Gospel really entails.

Another tweet from Jean-Daniel's twitter feed proves me right,

"People say academia is too esoteric and hyperspecialised.
But until there is a tenured position as professor of religous themes in young adult literature, and I have it, I say, 'It isn't enough yet.'"
9:18 PM - 2 Aug 2018

The wannabe future tenured professor of "religous" themes in young adult literature had better start using spell-check if he hopes to get that highly coveted position at McGill University.

The false gospel of revisionist, progressive ideology will fail in the long run as young people are smart enough to figure out that the men, women, and transexuals in clerical dress are puffed up, hyper-specialized idiots who haven't a clue as to how to live and breathe the Gospel of Christ.

Unless Jesus intervenes, the prediction that "only one Anglican would be left in Canada by 2061" will  indeed be shown to be correct.