Reform

We are therefore committed to a Reform that is "steady". We intend to be "sober" in our actions - alert, rational, neither under-reacting nor over-reacting. We are also prepared for the cost of "suffering". We are committed to a Reform that will provoke opposition. We expect to be attacked, abused, and defamed. But we are committed to doing "the wo... rk of an evangelist. We see the spiritual and moral needs of the nation as being so desperate that we must obey the Apostolic command to "fulfil your ministry". For these and other reasons we mainstream Evangelicals believe the time is ripe for a new Reform movement in England. Our goal is not to destabilize the Church (it is already destabilized), but to Reform it. We are committed to the Church of England, not as it now is, but as it can be and should be. We do not define the Church of England as its structures but as its people in the parishes in communion through the "one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Hooker). For that reason we consider discussion of seceding unreal. We are the Church of England. In the event of any apostasy we would simply declare ourselves out of communion with those who had apostasized as was appropriate. That already is an Anglo-Catholic practice.Read More