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Embracing the Covenant EMBRACING THE COVENANT Quinquennial Report (2008) of the Joint Implementation Commission under the Covenant between The Methodist Church of Great Britain and The Church of England All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher Methodist Publishing House © 2008 Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes ISBN 1 85852 346 9 Published on behalf of the Joint Implementation Commission by Methodist Publishing House 4 John Wesley Road, Werrington Peterborough PE4 6ZP Printed and bound in Great Britain by PrintonDemand-worldwide.com, Orton Southgate, Peterborough CONTENTS Foreword 1 Membership of the Joint Implementation Commission 3 Abbreviations used in the text 4 1. Taking Stock and Looking Ahead 5 2. The Unity We Have and the Unity We Seek 24 3. Researching and Resourcing Local Covenant Relationships 37 4. How Can Decision Making be Shared? 49 5. Episkope and Episcopacy and our Churches in Covenant 84 6. Calvinism and Arminianism 116 APPENDICES i. Resources 129 ii. Deaneries and Circuits: Partners in Mission 134 iii. Local Preachers and Readers: Sharing Two Ministries 147 FOREWORD As the Co-Chairs of the Joint Implementation Commission (JIC) of the Covenant between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England, we are pleased to present the Commission’s quinquennial report to both our churches. We believe that this report contains stimulating ideas and challenging recommendations, which need to be studied widely in both churches. We recognise that some feel that ‘the Covenant’ has not yet made the difference that they expected in the relationship between our two churches. But the JIC cannot on its own ‘implement’ a covenant. That can only be done by both churches taking the Covenant to heart and putting it into practice in every area of their lives. However, in our three reports we have addressed many issues, including those which were specifically referred to us. A covenant by its very nature requires both parties fully to engage and grow into it. In much of our work, particularly through the ten regional workshops for our church leaders, that we organised, as well as in our reports, we have pointed the way ahead and encouraged the necessary changes in thought and practice throughout our churches, in order to allow the Covenant to flourish as a practical reality. We share the disappointment of others at the slow pace of change in the covenantal relationship between our churches. Yet we recognise how far things have changed for the better in British ecumenical experience in recent years, not a little of which is due to the influence of this Anglican –Methodist Covenant and the work of the JIC. We have been encouraged by many examples of good practice and by the seriousness with which many have engaged in a mutual covenant lifestyle. We wish to thank all the members of the JIC and its consultants for their colleagueship and hard work during the past five years. In an extremely encouraging way the members of the JIC have come together in a covenantal relationship that has brought to us all many gifts and graces from each of our churches. We particularly want to thank the Co-Conveners who have guided the work of the commission. 1 We commend this report as a further step on the way to the full visible unity of Christ’s Church. The Right Revd Ian Cundy Professor Peter Howdle Bishop of Peterborough Vice-President of the Methodist Conference 2002-3 2 MEMBERSHIP OF THE JOINT IMPLEMENTATION COMMISSION 2003-8 The Methodist Church Professor Peter Howdle (Co-Chair) Miss Margaret Faulkner (Secretary) Deacon Hilary Smith The Revd Neil Stubbens The Revd Peter Sulston (Co-Convenor) The Revd Alison Tomlin The Revd Kenneth Howcroft (2008) The Revd Dr Martyn Atkins (Consultant) Dr Clive Marsh (Consultant) The Revd Dr Martin Wellings (Consultant) The Church of England The Right Revd Ian Cundy, Bishop of Peterborough (Co-Chairman) The Revd Canon Dr Paul Avis (Co-Convenor) The Revd John Cole The Revd Canon William Croft The Revd Prebendary David Houlding Miss Janice Price The Revd Will Adam (Consultant) Dr Martin Davie (Consultant) Participant from the United Reformed Church The Revd Richard Mortimer Contacts for comments on this report: The Revd Kenneth Howcroft The Revd Canon Dr Paul Avis Methodist Church House Council for Christian Unity 25 Marylebone Road Church House, Great Smith Street, London London NW1 5JR SW1P 3NZ [email protected] [email protected] 3 ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT Unless otherwise indicated, references to these reports in the text are by paragraph number. AMC An Anglican – Methodist Covenant: Report of the Formal Conversations between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England (Methodist Publishing House and Church House Publishing, 2001). SOC In the Spirit of the Covenant: Interim Report (2005) of the Joint Implementation Commission under the Covenant between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England (Methodist Publishing House, 2005). LGC Living God’s Covenant: Second Interim Report (2007) of the Joint Implementation Commission under the Covenant between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England (Methodist Publishing House, 2007). 4 1. TAKING STOCK AND LOOKING AHEAD TAKING STOCK FIVE YEARS ON The Covenant between the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the Church of England was agreed by the General Synod and the Methodist Conference in the Summer of 2003. The Covenant was signed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference and the general secretaries of both churches in Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, and celebrated in Westminster Abbey, both events taking place in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, on 1 November that year. The Covenant stands out as a major initiative of reconciliation and unity in the history of the Churches in this country. Its significance is brought out if we reflect for a moment on the relationship between Anglicanism and Methodism in England over the past two and half centuries. The Methodist movement began within the Church of England, as part of the Evangelical Revival. John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield were clergymen of the Church of England who, despite pressure from others, never contemplated leaving the established church. For a long time, Methodists continued to worship in their parish churches, alongside their own preaching services and class meetings. They were generally communicants in the Church of England. The 2007 commemorations of the tercentenary of Charles Wesley’s birth have reminded us how he strove to keep Methodism loyal to the Church of England and passionately opposed all steps that would loosen the ties. However, Methodism and the Church of England drifted apart over time, going their separate ways more by accident than design. The movement attracted some who had been formed in historic dissenting churches and welcomed many who had no meaningful church background at all. The movement gradually took on a particular organizational shape and the structures that emerged did not mesh well with those of the Church of England. Methodism, initially a movement of renewal and evangelization within the national church, evolved into a church itself. It seemed that the new wine of Methodism could not be contained in the old wineskins of Anglicanism. By the end of the nineteenth century Methodism, by then itself divided, and the Church of England were in a state of sibling rivalry, competing – together with other churches – for England’s soul. As we show in our chapter ‘The Unity we Have and the Unity we Seek’, both churches were profoundly affected by the ecumenical movement, which began in the second half of the nineteenth century as various European and American missionary societies began deliberately to co- operate rather than to compete in their various spheres of operation around the world. The International Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910 is often seen as marking the official birth of the ecumenical movement. The Lambeth Conference of bishops of the Anglican Communion in 1920 addressed all the baptized in its ‘Appeal to All Christian People’. Since then, the Methodist Church (together with other ‘Free Churches’) and the Church of England have explored the possibilities of reunion in several conversations. Meanwhile, various branches of Methodism came together in 1932 to form the Methodist Church of Great Britain. The ecumenical movement has transformed the relationships between churches and individual Christians from one of suspicion and hostility to one of friendship and co-operation. The founding figures of the ecumenical movement were right to see it as a great new work of the Holy Spirit. The conversations that were prompted by the Lambeth Appeal received fresh momentum in 194 (as we recount in our chapter on unity) and culminated in worked out proposals for uniting the Church of England and the Methodist Church. The final narrow defeat of these unity proposals in the General Synod in 1971 left a legacy of rejection, heartbreak and disillusionment that has not completely faded away. Churches have long collective memories. The Covenant has gone some way towards healing those wounds of more than thirty years ago. But that is only the start. The Covenant has provided a launching pad for further convergence in faith, life and mission, and we believe that it points to our churches acting as one body in more and more ways until we reach the point where we are able to enter into a relationship of full visible communion. There is no doubt that the intention of the Methodist Church in approaching the Church of England in 1994, at the initiation of the present process, as of the Church of England in responding, was that our two churches should eventually become one.
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