The supreme authority in the church is in God's word. It is the ordered loveliness of the created universe. We believe in natural revelation, revealed supremely in Christ and the fullness of the biblical witness to Christ...
The supreme authority of the church is not the Catholic magisterium or liberals of educated opinion. It is in God's Word written to whose authority we must submit and we must submit in the working of the church today.
a clergyman may be apparently as useless as a cat, but he is also as fascinating, for there must be some strange reason for his existence (GK Chesterton): one retired Anglican septuagenarian clergyman's THOUghts, discOverings, readings, scribbLes, wOndeRings and dooDles exploring that strange reason
Sunday 19 February 2006
John Stott: a Word About the Authority God's Word Written
John Stott at a conference in Oxford:
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