Taking our white paper “to do” list out of order, we begin with #4, Gospel Worship. In 1961, Evangelical Anglican, J.I. Packer wrote: “Historic Anglicanism is not just a style of worship; it is also, and fundamentally, a confessional stance.” At the time historic (or what we would call Evangelical) Anglicanism was dormant. Tractarianism and […]
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by Jake Dell I recently decided to get a new Bible for my own reading. I started with an NIV, then an ESV, and finally came back to the KJV. That is because modern translations (anything after 1881) use a scientific method to reconstruct the source texts. I always knew this, but until now, I
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You’ve had the chance to get to know where the EFAC-USA Bulletin is coming from. (Have a look at the 39+ blog for a refresher.) Now, we want to spend some time discussing how we can make things happen. Download our white paper for a full discussion of what we’re thinking, but here they are
Worship can never replace reality. It can foreshadow or represent it, but it is not itself the reality it represents. Why is this an important distinction to keep in mind? Because Roman and Eastern approaches to worship, where this distinction sometimes seems to blur, may result in a too sharp a divide between the spiritual and
One of the things that drew me to my current parish was its use of Rite 1. But, I wondered, how many knew why it’s used? For me, it’s not just the beauty of the Elizabethan prose and the continuity of hundreds of years, but the plain declaration of the gospel it makes. For instance, when the
