When the Word on the Street is RESIST

At Inclusive Church's residential conference Word on the Street, Retired Bishop of Worcester (England) Peter Selby gave an address titled When the Word on the Street is RESIST. Do go and read the entire address, but here is the next to last paragraph, to which I immediately responded "BINGO!"

Above all what we need is not to take our eye off the issue, that of the treatment to be accorded to LGBT people and the ways in which they have - over many generations, not just in the last few decades - sought to live lives obedient to the gospel within the cultures in which we all, sexual majorities and minorities alike, seek to do just that. To leave that issue behind in favour of the worthy but secondary issue of how to keep the Anglican Communion together will stunt our discernment - and not keep the Anglican Communion together either. The Archbishop says the enterprise is 'becoming the Church God wants us to be, for the better proclaiming of the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ'; but that means engaging in the search for the truth together, not settling for the stalemate which is what his paper actually advocates.

Peace,
Jeff