The primary issue in our upcoming General Convention is not sexuality itself but rather church authority. What is more important for our church? Does God call us to strive for doctrinal purity and seek to have my particular point of view about what the Bible says to prevail, or does God call us to live together in love where we have faithful disagreements and value our fellowship more than doctrinal purity? I submit that this latter has always been the Anglican way of doing business. Some folk want to change that. Which is it? Doctrinal purity (and in that case who decides what the Bible actually says? Certainly general Convention does not vote that) or the life of love? What does God call us to demonstrate to the world?

F. Perry

written by Father Perry