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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Episcopal Leader: Membership Losses Are 'Spirit's Way of Pruning for Greater Fruitfulness'


The head of The Episcopal Church has stated that the declining numbers of her denomination could be the work of the Holy Spirit to create "greater fruitfulness."

TEC Presiding Bishop the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori made this statement last Thursday in remarks delivered at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Churchwide Assembly in Pittsburgh. "Some have judged our smaller numbers as faithlessness but it may actually be the Spirit's way of pruning for greater fruitfulness," said Jefferts Schori.

"If we see ourselves standing at the foot of the cross, any such judgment will be far less important than our response." Read more
To what kind of "fruitfulness" is ECUSA's Presiding Bishop referring? Certainly not new disciples of Jesus Christ and new congregations of disciple-making Christians.

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