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Diocesan Synod
By Pat Lee | September 26, 2007
Friday October 12–Saturday October 13–Diocesan Synod in Cornwall.
“Behold I make all things new”-Revelation 21:5 (Embracing the future)
Members from St. John’s will join with Anglicans from our Diocese to prayerfully consider serious issues currently facing our church that will impact our future. It will provide us an opportunity to listen to each other and to our new Bishop John Chapman and to consider how best to approach being the church in a rapidly changing world.
In our Anglican spiritual tradition, we do not have a centralised authoritarian organisation or have decisions made for us based upon a few written-in-stone “faith” statements. Instead we make decisions carefully over time as a community. Representative groups of both clergy and lay people meet together under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and reflect on Scripture and Tradition in the light of Reason when making decisions. We consider a variety of positions and emphases to be healthy within the family of our world-wide communion. Diocesan Synods are one example of how the Anglican way works.
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