From Anglican Mainstream:

By Charles Raven

On Sunday 15th August, Bishop Trevor Walters, Area Bishop (West Canada), preached at two churches in Worcestershire. In the morning he visited the congregation at Christ Church Wyre Forest, an ‘extra mural’ Anglican church plant near Kidderminster and then went on to preach at the parish church of Christ Church Lye in the industrial north of the county.

At Christ Church, Bishop Trevor took as his text Jesus’ words in Luke 12:32 ‘Be not afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.’ He spoke powerfully about the way that the expectation of Jesus’ return as a real event in history underpins the Kingdom’s reversal of worldly values and how we need to guard against a lazy reading of the Bible which accommodates it to what is fashionable.

Bishop Trevor’s message came with an integrity which arises out of his many years of pastoral experience and the costly stand for the gospel which  he and his colleagues in the ACNA have taken.  Bishop Trevor continues to be rooted in the congregation of  St Matthew’s in Abbotsford, BC where he was previously rector and under whose leadership a series of new churches were planted, despite a long running, continuing and costly battle to resist ejection from the church’s property by the leadership of the Anglican Church of Canada.

It was a great privilege to share in this experience of gospel partnership and a very encouraging reminder that despite so much compromise with the prevailing secularism, a new and vital paradigm of Anglican faith and order is emerging.

Rev Charles Raven