The Church in Wales, a member of the World Wide Anglican Communion, met recently and agreed to conduct same sex blessings (SSBs) of same sex "marriages".
I have been following the downfall of the Church (from henceforth, Organization) in Wales for several years now thanks to the Ancient Briton (AB) blog. The Organization had already elected a partnered lesbian bishop so it was expected that SSBs were to follow.
The Organization in Wales had already shrunken to insignificance before SSBs as noted by AB,
"The Covid-19 pandemic has interrupted the annual update of regular church attendance figures but based on previous trends less than 0.8% of the population of Wales would regularly attend Anglican Sunday services."
The trajectory is identical to what happened to the Episcopal Organization in the U.S. In Wales, the bishop's abandonment of theological rigor for the shifting sands of culture makes me wonder if they are simply following the Episcopalian model,
"In his keynote address as President of the Church’s Governing Body, its senior bishop Andy John urged the Church to look for God in the changing world and respond to new challenges. He warned that organisations failing to adapt to changes ran the risk of 'fossilization'."
That's like the dodo calling the emu a fossil.
Tossing Holy Scripture aside, these bishops claim to be following a new Gospel delivered to them personally that blesses homosexual sin,
"Sounding like a Taliban spokesman claiming every deed to be the will of Allah the bishop (of St Asaph) said, 'I will not betray them, not for any price in this world or the next because I believe it is the will of Christ.'"
Let us pray that the price he has to pay in the next world is not as harsh as the Bible suggests.
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Well, to avoid the penalty he'll have to repent.
ReplyDeleteLet us pray for that too.
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