GTE said: September 7, 2008 8:51 pm PST
Dear Mustard Seed. I read your blog here is my resonse;
As an Anglican it is my belief that any Spiritual association with the taking of Holy Communion comes to,with,the Holy Spirit and the participant and has nothing what so ever to do with the instruments or leadership of the Service.
As for your call to the grass roots of our church what is your feeling about the clear admonishment to hold yourself in obedience to them in authority over you, as well as the surety that all leadership is placed there by God for his purposes. It seems to me that when faced with obvious direction away from the Lordship of Christ by that same leadership, any move against that leadership is against God's will. Therefore like the myriad Bonhoeffers of the past We simply move on. and like the Common Cause partners of today we are first obediant to the Lord Jesus.
To say the people of San Joquin and so many other Members of TEC as well as many parishes and peoples in the Anglican Church of Canada Have left their respective provinces is laughable. To paraphrase an old saying you can move the church from God but you cannot move God from the Church.
Be Blessed As Jesus implied of your namesake.
GTE Toronto,Canada