Friday, July 11, 2008

Responding to Bishop NT Wright part 2: Paternalistic Nonchalance

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/14101

[Stand Firm] 11 Jul 2008--There is no “mechanism” enabling anyone to intervene? Souls are being lost. There is no “mechanism”? There is a rather large mechanism that many in the Global South have discovered. It is called an airplane. You board it. Yes, from the Cantaur-centric colonial perspective the use of such mechanisms may do damage to Anglican polity, but since souls are being lost, do it anyway. Maybe this is a stretch but I think the One who as willing to break tradition and heal on the Sabbath might be a little upset when his bishops refuse to break diocesan boundaries to rescue his sheep from ravenous wolves and in turn hinder those who do. Bishop Wright's effective nonchalance toward the eternal damnation of souls is precisely why the present jurisdictional interventions are necessary. How many would otherwise be lost before open evangelicals and collaborationists working hard “behind the scenes” agreed upon an orderly communion solution satisfying to the Archbishop of Canterbury?

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