***What, precisely, do you find wrong with his interpretation of the story in Luke 5?***
Let me break it down...
***The strict believers who challenge Paul and Barnabas and have no small dissension and debate with them ****
Read: Conservative Anglicans
***The difficulty of the Gospel is perhaps this: that it gives comfort neither to the legalist nor to the libertine.***
Read: Traditional Anglicans and pro-homosexual revisionists are on EQUAL footing in the Church.
***Here we are then, this morning, the people who have not found the nerve to walk away.****
Read: We pro-homosexual Anglicans aren't going away.
***And because they didn't have the nerve to walk away, the people who not always in an easy or welcome way, find they have more in common than they might have thought.***
Read: Because the pro-homos are not "walking away" the conservatives need to accept, embrace & find commonality with them
***We care about it because we are part of the Body of Christ and the world needs the Body of Christ. It is hungry for truth and for love.***
Read: And for good measure, let's "do it for the children" and "for the needy of the world".
What he is doing here is taking the gospel and utterly divorces it from any concept of authentic righteousness or the holiness of God. The traditionalists and revisionists are not on equal footing. The revisionists should be told to repent and failing that they should be barred from the Church.
This is a gospel of moral relativism. No surprise coming from a man who is lost in his own little tornado of radicalism, doubt and unbelief.
You've done a thorough job of reading your own agenda into his sermon.
Read: Conservative Anglicans
Conservative Anglicans, and anybody else who place the letter of the law over the spirit of it. (Isn't that the basis of Jesus's conflict with the Pharisees?) I've come across my share of modern-day Pharisees, as I'm sure you have, too. I have to fight hard with myself not to fall into the same trap (which is tempting).
Read: Traditional Anglicans and pro-homosexual revisionists are on EQUAL footing in the Church.
Not remotely what he said.
Read: We pro-homosexual Anglicans aren't going away.
Sounds like you're one of those who claims not to need a doctor. Sorry, but I'm one who numbers myself among the sick who needs a doctor.
Read: Because the pro-homos are not "walking away" the conservatives need to accept, embrace & find commonality with them
He didn't say that.
Read: And for good measure, let's "do it for the children" and "for the needy of the world".
I don't know how you got this: the world is hungry for truth and love, as only Christ can give it.
This is a gospel of moral relativism. No surprise coming from a man who is lost in his own little tornado of radicalism, doubt and unbelief.
You sound like one of the fellows who undertook to debate with Paul and Barnabas....