Posted on 08/20/2024 8:20:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I give England until the end of 2025 at the latest before it is no longer recognizable. Don't laugh; I give the U.S. until the end of 2027 at best, but that is a whole other column.
The Church of England has apparently joined the pronoun movement. Of course, none of this should come as a surprise to anyone, but it is still a shame. According to a report in the Telegraph, the Church has decided to stop using the word "church" in order to be more modern. I don't know what word they will use. Lodge? Club? Association? The Loyal Order of Water Buffalos?
By all indications, the church is keeping its official moniker as "The Church of England." That is understandable; a lot of letterhead would need to be thrown out and logos redesigned. From a cost-benefit standpoint, it makes sense. But going forward, churches will be referred to as "communities."
According to a study by the Centre for Church Planting Theology and Research, which examined six of eleven dioceses in the Anglican Communion, churches are increasingly dropping the word when exploring the idea of creating new congregations. They are also known as churches, by the way.
When discussing new "church plants," which is a fairly common practice in the U.S., none of the 900 new churches started by the Church of England used the word "church plant."
The report’s author, Rev Dr. Will Foulger, vicar of St Nicholas in Durham, found that six of the 11 dioceses used the language of “worship” in their main descriptor of new church projects, two used “congregation,” and seven used “community.”
The Telegraph interviewed Dr. Giles Fraser, vicar of St Anne’s, in Kew. Fraser called the effort “a misplaced desire to be relevant and modern-sounding.”
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Dr. Foulger suggested that the Church of England might be moving away from using the word “church” as part of a cultural rejuvenation.
He said that the word “church” was not comprehensive enough “to describe what it is that these dioceses have been starting,” adding that the phrase “new things” might be more appropriate.
“New things?” I can’t imagine waking up on a Sunday morning and getting ready to go the “new thing.”
A church spokesman told the Telegraph that the change is being effected because “forms of worship can exist” outside church buildings.
We in the West are the marxists now
They might as well Identify as Mosques 🕌 then! It would most likely fill the vacuous places.
They repudiated the divinity of Christ over a generation ago.
Next up -- Muhammad.
But first there must be a falling away.
Here we have the entire Church of England just gone. Its just gone.
mosques he means
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