Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Yet this is to turn God's priorities inside out. God has made it very clear that knowing him means knowing the truth about him. One of the fundamental problems with humankind is that they have rejected that truth, turning from the true God to the false gods of idols - whether they are idols of the mind or physical idols and statues in temples. And to preach the good news is to challenge this wilful ignorance with truth. In Athens, the Apostle Paul does not condemn the Athenians for worshipping 'The Unknown God', but he demolishes their agnosticism with the message of Christ: 'What you worship as unknown,' he says, 'this I proclaim to you.'
The problem for the Diocesan leadership is that Christian behaviour can only flow from Christian faith. And Christian faith needs to be both proclaimed as truth to an ignorant world and protected as truth against erroneous teaching. Yet both these tasks are seemingly given a low priority. Instead, leadership focuses on the much easier task of addressing practical issues....
This looks like an excellent sermon to mull over. Thank you for posting it!