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I Was Reading the Latest Issue of My Favourite 1 STANDPOINT - A monthly column on Anglican issues clues to their meaning are clear. If you and I, ordinary members of the Church are to DRAWING A FINE LINE FOR take our part in debate and interaction, we DEBATE need to focus on these issues without distraction. On 24 June 2001, before his consecration The problem is not in evangelicalism as as Archbishop of Sydney, the Catholic much as in the friends of evangelicalism Weekly reported Dr Jensen’s primary goals. who have not been as tough minded as they His agenda, he said, is set by ‘the should – Archbishop Peter Jensen, January resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead’ 2003 and this points to ‘the main contest’ between materialism -- ‘men and women who think I was reading the latest issue of the Witness that this world is all there is’-- and the magazine which primarily comments on coming kingdom of God. Alan Gill, author world justice issues and the Episcopal of this report, perceptively noted that the Church in the United States (ECUSA). I comment was offered as ‘a kind of noticed on page 6 a summary of other news manifesto or mission statement, in line with under the heading: ‘Sydney newspaper the Evangelical tradition of giving public reports allegations of nepotism against testimony to belief and motivation’. archbishop’. Seven prominent lines told more than this now tired story; its sub-text Why is there such surprise that the about power and gender left me deeply archbishop has subsequently urged adoption uncomfortable. of a diocesan strategic plan that affirms both the centrality of the bodily resurrection of The business of the Anglican Diocese of Jesus and evangelism? This is surely a Sydney has once more engaged the national, classic Evangelical response. And does not the denominational and the international everything else flow from this? If the ‘new media. Commendably, Anglican Media body’ and the ‘coming kingdom’ must Sydney has responded openly, detailing primarily engage us, then the battleground is comments from every source. No pretenses, set for all the archbishop’s other issues. no self-justification, just the details so that the reader can draw their own conclusions -– Those of us who want to keep justice on congratulations to all concerned in keeping the agenda of the Diocese of Sydney as our the affairs of the Diocese open, at least in primary goal, must address these principles. these matters. But no praise at all for the The accusation of ‘nepotism’ is simply continued devaluing of human sexuality and unworthy and it fails to recognise the for the promotion of male power. closeness of Jensen’s marriage and family relationships. Some people may have Dr Peter Jensen’s views about leadership in wished for a different leadership mix but to the Anglican Communion, the nature of keep on discussing this matter is to lose the evangelism, strategies for church growth, centre of concern about justice in the broad Bible authority, gender and sexuality are areas of ‘power’, ‘gender’, ‘sexuality’ and beyond doubt. Much of the media greets ‘inclusiveness’. If justice comes from the this with surprise, as if the archbishop and heart of God, and if justice motivates us to his supporters had invented a new brand of see good even in our enemies, then the Evangelical dialectic and action. But the struggle is really about the men and women 2 of this age who need to hear that their crisis that cannot be confined by our definitions. matters, that they are indeed ‘the image of This is a time for justice-focussed Christians God’. The here and now needs to be to sit as friends and co-workers with all claimed as the kingdom of God pressing in those who share our wonder in the search for all around us. Justice to the oppressed is not an authentic humanity. an optional extra, nor is it some second cousin to evangelism – justice is the mind I was asked recently for a statement of my and heart of the compassionate God. personal faith. I offer it to you here: It is right to rejoice at the urgency to see I believe that at the heart of all true people ‘converted’, but a narrowness of religion is a blending of compassion vision for their possibilities should leave us and justice. This impels us to reach grieving. The tragedy for some may be beyond our closed circle of broken relationships, divorce, violence and acquaintance and search for the mark sexual manipulation – against that all of us of beauty and goodness in every must protest. But our relationship is more human being. In this encounter we than ‘protest’ or a denunciation of sin; it is can discover within ourselves the yearning for people’s wholeness. quality of mercy and forgiveness that enlivens compassion and justice. You And here, there is an obvious tension. become my companion, sometimes Archbishop Jensen claims that ‘genuine my intimate. At that moment, your evangelicalism always estimates reality from different culture or social status or the point of view of God’s judgement; it religion enhances my own awareness sees human need as fundamentally that of of my humanity. Seeing you, salvation from the future wrath of God, and touching you, knowing you, links me it sees human beings as fully deserving that with you and brings me into the orbit wrath’ (“The Gospel and Mission of of your pain and disadvantage’ Anglican Evangelicalism – January 2003: (Adelaide Advertiser 28 January 2003) address at the Anglican Evangelical Conferences in the UK”). The whole text is Our Christianity should make us more open worth reading for the clarity of its to people of other outlooks, other cultures, exposition. You can find it on the web at and yes, other ways of embracing sexuality. http://www.anglicanmedia.com.au/index.ph Our generation is searching for new ways of p/article/articleview/586/1/25/ relating that affirm their natural and their spiritual yearning. What is at stake for us in If this is immovable ground, then Sydney this engagement is nothing less than an exponents of justice may need to begin the understanding of the ways of God and the dialogue with ‘eschatology’, the fundaments of classical theism. interpretation of the world and human life in terms of its end. Alternately they could Justice demands that our agenda be the refuse the right of Sydney Evangelicals to affirmation of people from backgrounds set the ground rules of debate. They could different to our own and that will mean make this is the time to set another agenda support for homosexual and transgender where culture, the interplay of relationships people. And support does not mean mere and the universal surge of spirituality to tolerance or the privatising of behaviour; it explore ‘God’ and ‘human nature’ in new means the endorsement of these differences terms. Here we can believe intensely in the as expressions of the compassionate God. generosity of the human spirit, in the power Here is an alternative agenda for modern of forgiveness and in an awareness of God Anglicans. 3 Will we divide on these fundamental Archbishop of Canterbury, it is difficult not issues? Will there be two Anglican see deliberate contrasts set. Maybe my mind denominations operating in tandem? is running ahead of the facts, but as the Probably. There are no surprises here. challenge to the Archbishop of Canterbury shapes around his views of human sexuality, Since the 1930s the Evangelical leadership then he must be an ‘inauthentic’ Anglican. in the diocese of Sydney has modelled its He is in question, as is his role through future on the existence of two such churches Lambeth. So, if a stand is to be taken, in South Africa. In all the present hostility should it perhaps be here? Before we have a to the new Archbishop of Canterbury, this bible text debate, maybe we should try to issue for Sydney has been made abundantly establish what it actually means to be clear. Anglican. Is there something distinctive about this Church? ‘The Church of England will have to change to meet the needs of Evangelicals as The answer has more than a little to do they evangelise’, said Archbishop Jensen with the experience of ‘grace’. I seem to following a recent sermon to the English recall that this was the burden of the early congregation of St Helen’s Bishopsgate English Protestant Reformers. They argued (Church Times 24 January 2003). That for continuity with the primitive and change will mean that ‘authentic Anglicans mediaeval church where that theme was will occupy the same territory, not in believed, and took their succession from the communion with each other but in exponents of ‘grace’. To use a term communion with other Anglicans’. And the sometimes applied to modern sects and model for change is ‘the example of the denominations, Anglican reformers were not Church of England in South Africa – ‘restorationists’ – that is to say, they did not “always acknowledged by Sydney, but never try to recapture some artificial past in faith invited to Lambeth”.’ or order, but as modern people they grasped an idea, a transforming theme. Grace This conviction has impelled the Diocese continues to be the virtue that companies of Sydney, at least since the 1930s and the justice. To reach others with the liberating episcopate of Howard Mowll. An words of Christ, to see them empowered by ‘authentic’ Christianity is Evangelical, the Holy Spirit, is to realise that their life, bible-based, Gospel preaching, centred on even in its darkest places, can be awakened. substitutionary atonement, looking for the And this Church through its social services coming again of Jesus.
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