Posted on 08/27/2016 6:43:43 PM PDT by marshmallow
Justin Welby has opened up about how his own failings make him angry and said that he spends "a lot of time feeling a fraud" in a personal and at times emotional interview at the Greenbelt Christian festival in Northamptonshire.
Speaking to the 'vicar of Gogglebox', television star Kate Bottley in front of hundreds of festival-goers, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that wherever he went he found people who could do his job "infinitely better" than he could.
And in surprisingly frank comments about same-sex relationships, Welby said that he "can't see the road ahead" for the Church.
Before the banter-filled question and answer session, Welby was introduced by Christian Today's Andy Walton who said: "One of [our guests] is the most high profile Christian in the country... and the other is the Archbishop of Canterbury".
The Archbishop joked that "the fact that I'm Archbishop of Canterbury is one of the things that makes me seriously doubt the infallibility of God."
Welby said "there is only one way to overcome" the self-doubts, "and that's prayer and the Bible – it's being part of the family of Christ... with all kinds of problems and issues and you've got a role in that family".
The Archbishop told of a visit last week to the Demelza hospice in Canterbury, of which he is patron and where he was showed around by an eight-year-old blind boy. An emotional Welby described sitting with with the parents of a young boy who had died, and told of how, having asked the parents if they wanted him to pray, he did not know what to say until words came to him. "Jesus, this is all wrong," he prayed. "We shouldn't be here."
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And look what the BOOK says about the LIVING WORD. He dared to speak different messages to different audiences.
You are being un-Christlike in your presentation.
Hi Tech, still can’t figure out what you trying to convey. So, I guess we’ll have to leave it at that. God bless you.
What about the abusive ways homosexuals test Christians?
Rad scripture, it is Chrystal Clear.
Yeah, after hitting the “Post” button for that reply, I considered other possible groups such as radical Islamists and the atheists. I suppose we can group these two under the idolators who break the first commandment. Both are just as organized as the homos are at destroying the church and Christianity.
“Welby said that the inclusion of gay people and safeguarding against abuse were the two issues which he lies awake thinking about at night.”
Matthew 16:23 NIV New International Version
“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
This guy needs to get away from the conference circuit and interviews with the media and into the Word of God, which he is obviously ignorant of.
Matthew 7: NIV
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
This “Holy man” /sarc is on the broad road to destruction and doesn’t even know it.
This is what this fool is likely to hear on judgement day.
More from Matthew 7: NIV
22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name? Didn’t we force out demons and do many miracles by the power and authority of your name?’ 23 Then I will tell them publicly, ‘I’ve never known you. Get away from me, you evil people.’
Remember Matthew 7:14 NIV
“But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
Only a “FEW”.
Not MOST, not MANY, but only a “FEW”.
Very many so called Christians will be surprised and disappointed on that day..... “MANY”
That is correct, they do hate God and the Church
Their hetero cheerleaders can be just as bad.
If one is a self righteous Christian beware because The LORD just might allow you to commit a sin that destroys your self righteousness. The LORD will humble you. He lifts up the humble, but puts down the proud.
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