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The Australian FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1880 CHURCH No 1601 JANUARY 22, 1976 RECORD CROWDS AT SUMMER SCHOOL The CMS Summer School at Katoomba last week attracted the largest crowds for many years. On the Sunday night when John Stott spoke on The the demand for accommoda- Interview with John Stott'. Faith of Moses, over 1350 people packed the auditorium, tion that a Roman Catholic two overflow tents and the CMS Conference Centre. Conference Centre — Mount St Mary's was also During the recent Summer School Rev John Stott kindly made time available to the 1 he meeting was relayed was also the main speaker. made available. hurch Record for a wide ranging interview. through closed circuit tele- However that occasion was vision. Re. John Stott, Rector an all Australian Summer Missionaries from all CMS \Se shall be publishing this over two issues. Mr Stott was This was when the parish Emeritus at All Soul's I ang- School. Also attending were fields answered questions as anxious to point out that any- thing he said on matters of local meant much more in a way ham Place, was the Bible a group of 30 from the CMS to their various areas. controversy were said with the recognition that he was a visitor than the Church. It was a Study Leader. Some of the fellowship in the Diocese of and did not wish to intrude into local affairs. He said it would be parochial system rather than other speakers were Bishop Newcastle. On Sunday morning the inappropriate for him as a visitor to presume to comment on a congregational system. Donald Cameron. Bishop Communion Service for domestic issues without this qualification. Now for me I think we John Reid, Canon John ('hap- One new feature of the over 1300 people was held. On the question of church grown up on the understand- have to face the fact that we man, Rev l'hilip Oliver, CMS Summer School this year was The Archbishop of Sydney. membership some people ing that virtually all resi- are living in a new era in Secretary in Victoria, Rev a series of talks on Missions the Most Rev Sir Marcus which the majority of people in Parish Life. The intention Loane was the preacher. favour a congregational role dents in the parish are Chris- John Turner, CMS Secre- tians. in our parishes are no longer tary in Victoria. was to point out ways a as a means of identifying and parish can participate more Mr Turner announced that helping members. Others take They have for centuries CMS had arranged accom- fully in the missionary the main speaker at the next the view that such a system since the Reformation been modation for over 800 outreach. Summer School will be the could tend to exclude people. baptised and were recorded Rev Paul Barnett, Rector of In this interview he dis- people. Hundreds of others hat is your view? as having a right to attend the cusses his own back- Holy Trinity Adelaide, and parish church and could join arranged their own pri- There were many parish Frankly I am in favour of ground, church member- the chairman will be Rev the electoral role if they were vately. Mr Turner said it was contingents at Katoomba. St church membership and we ship, bishops and what Maurice Betteridge, Federal baptised and resident with- the largest Summer School Paul's Seaforth had about are really introducing it now they wear, evolution, the since 1971 when Mr Stott 140 members. So great was Secretary of CMS. into All out making any particular Souls. One ought to orld Council of see this both historically' and Christian confession or Churches, Northern Ire- Biblically. indeed without attending land, Malcolm Mugger- church and they were the elec- ARCHBISHOP SWAMPED BY Historically the Church of idge. education, baptis- England vvc all know, has torate in the early days, mal policies, and the cur- CONGRATULATIONS rent situation in the ( hurch of England. The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Reverend M. L. l,oane, KBE, who was knighted in the New bear I lonours List, has been overwhelmed with congratulations. Sir Marcus said: "I would "I am deeply conscious of longs to all church people. Christian, and therefore we like to express my very warm the fact that such an award and I hope they will feel that are moving from a parish thanks to so many people who has been conferred on me in they share it with me. situation to a Church situa- have written or sent messages view of the office I hold and "It has been my privilege tion and although we still of good-will in connection the church which I serve. to be called to represent with the New Year Honours. "The distinction really be- others, have an obligation evan- "My wife joins me in our gelistically to the parish, yet warmest thanks for so much we have a congregation friendship and support from drawn from the parish who all quarters are the committed Chris- ON OTHER PAGES . tian people and I cannot see any reason why they should not be enrolled members. The two advantages of this • Notes and comments — Page 2. membership seem to me to • Jesus the troublemaker — by John be first that they can get the Davies Page 2. people who enrol to take a real responsibility for the life • Letters to the editor — Page 4. and work of the Church and • Book reviews — Page 6. they should be committed • On and off the record — by David not to just attend but they should be active so that you Hewetson — Page 7. can promote the every • Aust College of Theology results member ministry idea, as Page 7. every member should be active. • Mainly about people — Page 8. 1rchhishop NI. I . I oath- Sc' John ',roil • To page 3 EDITORIAL Women's ministries in the church International Women's Year has come and gone It is disgraceful that Christian women, with popular catch cry of complete identity of ministry but it does not seem to have made much difference great gifts of personality and mental ability and for the two sexes, have the greater obligation to to the place of women in the Church. This is with years of theological training behind them, seek out and regularise ministries for Christian natural enough because "liberation", whether of should have to return, for example, to schoolteach- women in the congregation. Such ministries as women or men is not an objective which Christians ing, rather than spend their lives more directly in will allow them to exercise to the full, the gifts and seek for themselves, for Christians are enjoined the service of their fellow Christians. talents which God has given them for ministry to "through love be slaves to one another". Neverthe- This is not to say that women can fulfil every their fellow Christians. less, Christians as a whole are very remiss in not ministry in the congregation. Scripture makes The establishing and regularising of such providing opportunities for Christian women to clear that this is not so, and an understanding of ministries for women is of the highest priority and serve their fellow Christians in accordance with the the character of the congregation endorses it. But should be receiving the earnest attention of church gifts which God has given them. those who do not go along with the modern leaders. WCC NAIROBI ASSEMBLY Page 3 AUSTRALIAN CHURCH RECORD, JANUARY 22, 1976 — 1 ifIX)or tio114:0e library ------......_ • • loyalty quickly extinguishes spiritual life. Cod must be the Notes areal ammests centre of thoughts and The other Jesus . actions, the Lord Jesus (heist the centre of our loyalty. WCC NAIROBI ASSEMBLY REVIEWED Ted Noffs, ACC and FOL denominationalism is grow- This is the fifth of a new series of ing and spirituality is ebbing. A new newspaper called Light 'the moral CIA'. While articles by the Rev John Davies, mini- "V% hat was it like?" Diocesan badges worn on gar- By Bishop "Mabel" promoting the some men are essentially ster at Jannali, NSW. ments and now the Sydney "What good came of it?" radical wing of "Women's reformist, and the Aus- Donald Cameron, FIFTH WORLD MEETING diocesan tie are trifles in them- "What about theology?" Liberation" appeared last tralian Council of Churches selves but they are straws These and other similar Assistant Bishop month at the height of the In this issue, Mr Davies continues mainly concerned with which indicate quite clearly questions are the ones that Federal election campaign. the examination of the lesser-known in Sydney Dio- sexual and moral repression, that the wind is blowing in the were inevitably put to the re- OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES One of the articles (unsigned) Thu Hut litho 1)uttt. s nevertheless to their theo- wrong direction. facets of Jesus' character. turning delegates from the cese, who atten- attacked the Family Action logical opponents they are a For years the Good Friday Nairobi Assembly of the Movement and those Chris- radical challenge." ded the WCC Fifth service in Hyde Park in World Council of Churches. tians who oppose Women's Now it is possible that this Sydney has been called "The Maybe the best way of de- World Assembly Lib programme for a revo- article is grieviously mis- Anglican Witness". To bring Jesus the troublemaker! scribing the Assembly is to lutionary society. last November as representing the views of church members to the seek to answer questions The article would not merit officers of the ACC. If so, it service because it is Anglican No one likes a troublemaker, for deep in the heart of almost every person is the such as these, an Anglican dele- any comment except that it desire for peace.