Thread by @steve_kneale

Here is @ChurchSociety answer to this. For what it is worth, I am with them on points 1-5
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churchsociety.org/resource/respo…

https://twitter.com/steve_kneale/status/1615971148818268163

However, by point 6, this is their proposed solution:
"It is time for those who have failed to persuade us of the need and biblical basis for changing our doctrine and practice, to move on and move out of the Church of England."

The issue with this, of course, is that those who affirm these changes will not do this. Indeed, as the article notes:
"The Archbishop of York says this is 'not the end of the journey' — he expects there to be further changes down the road."

Given this 'is not the end of the journey' and knowing those Church Society call to leave, 'not with our blessing perhaps, but with our appreciation of your integrity', will not leave in expectation of these further changes, might evangelical integrity warrant a different stance?

As the article rightly notes, 'It would be a fearsome thing to be led by those whom God had abandoned.' Given such people are not leaving but intend further changes, and those in line with them are not leaving, how might evangelicals address that fearsome problem with integrity?

It seems to me, the only answer is the very answer they do not like and will not here. There answer, given all that lies in this post:
buildingjerusalem.blog/2023/01/19/the…

"It [is] hard to understand why anyone would want to remain in a denomination that has now moved beyond fudge to officially enshrining its own hypocrisy for all to see."

Indeed, perhaps it is time for evangelicals to have the courage of their own convictions and leave over those red lines? Red lines their evangelical brethren outside Anglicanism would both welcome and applaud their integrity for leaving over.

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