Via Media on Alternative Oversight Diocese

[Groce]

"We are disappointed, but not surprised, that eight dioceses have leaders who have rejected these efforts, this new leadership, and the Episcopal Church. Whether appealing for alternate primatial oversight, requesting direct oversight by the Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking to withdraw their dioceses into a new province, or highlighting how they think this church has abandoned the gospel, their actions show that they continue to walk apart from the Episcopal Church. As they do so, they make themselves a stumbling-block to the faithful, and a millstone around the church's neck."

Via Media
from the Stand Firm website
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/931/

I thought it was the other way around.

[Aymn27]

"We are disappointed, but not surprised, that eight dioceses have leaders who have rejected these efforts, this new leadership, and the Episcopal Church. Whether appealing for alternate primatial oversight, requesting direct oversight by the Archbishop of Canterbury, seeking to withdraw their dioceses into a new province, or highlighting how they think this church has abandoned the gospel, their actions show that they continue to walk apart from the Episcopal Church. As they do so, they make themselves a stumbling-block to the faithful, and a millstone around the church's neck."

Via Media
from the Stand Firm website
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/931/

I thought it was the other way around.HA! It is obvious who is "walking apart"...

[Polycarp1]

Yeah, I agree its obvious. Of course, I don't think we agree on who we mean by that...! ;)

[plaid_pixie]

good grief. they are looney, aren't they?

[Wigglesworth]

As they do so, they make themselves a stumbling-block to the faithful, and a millstone around the church's neck.

These are provocative words. A millstone would be placed around the neck of a person being thrown into the water to be drowned. Via Media seems to be stating here that conservatives seeking alternative oversight are killing the church.

:crossrc:

[Aymn27]

Yeah, I agree its obvious. Of course, I don't think we agree on who we mean by that...! ;)
I really am very glad you're posting here again - even if you annoy me sometimes ;)