Warning to the Archbishops
According to the Times of London, Jayne Ozanne, a member of the Archbishops' Advisory Council of the Church of England, has written a private report to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. The report was conveyed to them last week, it appears. In the report Ms Ozanne comments:
“I remain convinced that the only way for the Church to survive the storms that are currently besetting it is to embrace the hard truth with honesty and humility.” According to the Times, she questions whether Church leaders really believe any more in a God who can move mountains or in a God who can raise the dead, and she warns that the Church seems to have forgotten how to meet the cost of being Christian.
“Sacrificial giving is not a concept that we in the West have either embraced or understood. We are too comfortable and, as a result, too compromised. I see a time of great persecution coming, which will drive Christianity all but underground in the West. I believe that this will primarily take the form of a social and economic persecution, where Christians will be ridiculed for their faith and pressurised into making it a purely private matter.”
“I remain convinced that the only way for the Church to survive the storms that are currently besetting it is to embrace the hard truth with honesty and humility.” According to the Times, she questions whether Church leaders really believe any more in a God who can move mountains or in a God who can raise the dead, and she warns that the Church seems to have forgotten how to meet the cost of being Christian.
“Sacrificial giving is not a concept that we in the West have either embraced or understood. We are too comfortable and, as a result, too compromised. I see a time of great persecution coming, which will drive Christianity all but underground in the West. I believe that this will primarily take the form of a social and economic persecution, where Christians will be ridiculed for their faith and pressurised into making it a purely private matter.”
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