St Alban's Ottawa Folk Forced From Their Building

A sad day. An injustice methinks. I agree with George Sinclair's belief that the parish is the rightful owner of the property "legally, canonically and morally"—especially morally.

I also like the way he describes the problem in much of the Anglican Church of Canada:

If you end up thinking you’re smarter and nicer and wiser than the master, in what way are you still his disciple? … The Bible is very clear on certain things, as to what is right or wrong.

H/T Anglican Essentials Blog

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Church and the Contemporary Ideology of Choice

Something that stood out for me in a collection of "doodlings" over at Faith and Theology:

In the wilderness the devil tempts Jesus with a series of choices. By the seaside Jesus says to four fishermen “Follow me!”, an order, not an option. Nothing is more alien to serious Christianity than the contemporary ideology of choice. 

 …from Faith and Theology: A few more doodlings.

Shades of one of my little lists in my earlier post from Reformissionary on congregational government being of Satan.

Interesting who offers the choice and who offers the life (where have I heard that before?).

The church is part of a Kingdom. We didn't elect Jesus to be head of the church. The Bible is not like a constitution and by-laws which can be amended when we feel it's impinging on our appetites.

The older I get the more I realize that following Jesus is not as much about me and my appetites and preferences as it is following orders and being who he calls me to be, where he calls me to be that.