Lambeth Conference Will Issue No Resolutions, Says [Archbishop of Canterbury] Welby. Instead There Will be ‘Calls’

Church Times (UK) ^ | 6/10/22 | Ed Thornton

[marshmallow]

BISHOPS attending the forthcoming Lambeth Conference will not pass resolutions, but will instead make short statements known as “Lambeth Calls”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. This is to reflect better the fact that the Conference is “not there to order people about”.

In a video message posted on the Lambeth Conference website on Thursday, Archbishop Welby says that bishops at the Conference, which meets for 12 days in Canterbury, starting on 26 July, will seek to “discern what God is saying to the Church, but to offer that discernment . . . to the whole Church, to every single one of the Provinces. It’s not there to order people about.”

One of the problems with resolutions passed by previous Lambeth Conferences, he says, was that, “when the Lambeth Conference resolves something, it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen, and that is a bit confusing. It means it just gets offered to the whole Anglican Communion, who are called to consider what it means.”

To aid clarity, therefore, the 2022 Lambeth Conference will make decisions in the form of “Calls”, he says. “They will do what they say they are: they will call on the Anglican Communion . . . to pray and to think and reflect, and for each Province to decide on its response.”

[BillyBoy]

>> to offer that discernment . . . to the whole Church, to every single one of the Provinces. It’s not there to order people about.” To aid clarity, therefore, the 2022 Lambeth Conference will make decisions in the form of “Calls”, he says. “They will do what they say they are: they will call on the Anglican Communion . . . to pray and to think and reflect <<

Great! I can't order them to do anything either, but I be more than happy to help them decide what "calls" to make.

For example, I hereby call on the entire "Anglician Communion" and the "Lambert Conference" to apologize for seizing all the Catholic church's property in the 1600s, and to return it to their rightful owners.

How about it, Anglicans?

[twister881]

“Archbishop Welby says that bishops at the Conference, which meets for 12 days in Canterbury, starting on 26 July, will seek to ‘discern what God is saying to the Church...’”
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God: “Stop using my name in vain to justify your blasphemy, apostasy, and perversion.”
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[Grampa Dave]

Discernment in Churches today, is often a major step in going Woke and then eventually the end of that church as a vibrant part of the community.

[FlyingEagle]

Perfect example of why I swam Tiber 2012.

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James Hacker:
Humphrey, what’s a Modernist in the Church of England?

Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Ah, well, the word “Modernist” is code for non-believer.

James Hacker:
You mean an atheist?

Sir Humphrey Appleby:
No, Prime Minister. An atheist clergyman couldn’t continue to draw his stipend. So, when they stop believing in God, they call themselves “Modernists”.

James Hacker:
How could the Church of England suggest an atheist as Bishop of Bury St Edmunds?

Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Well, very easily. The Church of England is primarily a social organization, not a religious one.

James Hacker:
Is it?

Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Oh yes. It’s part of the rich social fabric of this country. So bishops need to be the sorts of chaps who speak properly and know which knife and fork to use. The sort of people one can look up to.