From the ANiC Newsletter:
Pray for mediation meeting in Ottawa, September 10
Please pray for the mediation process that our Ottawa parishes – St George’s and St Alban’s – will be engaging in on Friday, September 10 with the Diocese of Ottawa regarding their church properties and assets. Pray that a mutually agreeable solution will be found.
This is the most encouraging news we have had in a long time. From all accounts, the mediator is “gold standard”, in other words, very good at his job. Please hold this meeting up in prayer, that the Holy Spirit guide us to the solution that He wants to be found!
Update – September 12
The meeting went all day, and another meeting is scheduled for late afternoon of Thursday September 16. Thank you for your prayers.
Does that mean you are open to the Holy Spirit leading you back to the ACC or is that a different Holy Spirit altogether?
I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this isn’t a troll post.
Yes, if a spirit led us back to the ACoC, now, without serious repentance on their part (in the old meaning of the word, to turn around, to change direction), I would be suspicious of which spirit was doing the leading.
Eph 3:20 (#1), when you talk of the leading of the Holy Spirit, what exactly do you mean? An audible voice in your head? A burning in your bosom? What if the voice is telling you something contrary to Scripture?
Warren,
The Essentials crowd claim they are led by the Holy Spirit and that “they” are the authentic church. They claim they were led by the Spirit out of the ACC So who’s led by the spirit? Sounds a bit like a game of us versus them. Back at ya…
No answer, so game over.
Led by the Holy Spirit discerned through what the Bible tells us. Hardly us vs them. How about really answering Warren’s questions? You are really starting to make me think you are a troll.
Being led or inspired by the Holy Spirit is how we move as a church within the context of our reflection on scripture, evaluating sacred tradition, considering reason and engaging in prayer and conversation with others.
But I’m still perplexed how same-sex blessings is the last straw for Essentials. I would have thought that divorce, contraception, and female ordination would have been sacred cows long ago.
Yes, it is, but if the way we are being led is contrary to scripture, it isn’t the Holy Spirit doing the leading.
We have gone into the questions raised in your second paragraph many many times before on this blog. I would suggest you use the search engine and read some of the old threads to get an answer to your question. Another such trolling comment will land you in comment moderation.
In #7 Eph 3:20 said:
Given that millions of words have already been written on the subject, my forecast is that you will remain perplexed.
Please clarify, what is a trolling comment?
For Eph 3:20
I am confident you have read and indeed have covered most if not all of the postings on this site. Therefore I am confident that you realize the issue of homosexuality is simply one that has been grasped by the apostates – notice I have not called them liberals – to try and have people believe we hate homosexuals which is nothing but deliberate lies. The fact is that we are dealing with the authority of Scripture, one of the mandatory requirements to be a Christian. The other is full acceptance of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ. Both of these requirements are either dismissed entirely by apostate bishops or compromised to the point that they have no meaning. If the church is indeed lead by the Holy Spirit it would never allow either of these two requirements to be compromised regardless of any majority vote at Synod. The authority of Scripture can never be subjected to a democratic vote.
Eph 3:20 (#10), I don’t consider you a troll. In my books a troll makes a single provocative comment and then disappears (never to be heard from again) while the fireworks go off.
Comments that are designed to generate more heat than light.
(And all of the mods have to agree about putting someone on comment moderation)