Is the Anglican Church Finished?

A few Bishops within the Church of England are saying that it is right to celebrate same sex marriage.

I'm not going to go into the rights or wrongs of same sex marriage, but I think the Church of England is ultimately finished.

While we can agree that the love between two people in a committed relationship is indeed a wonderful thing, we have to remember St Paul telling us that while everything is good, not everything is beneficial.

In the past, the more conservative of those in our society, would say that once you open the door to one thing, we will eventually be covered in an avalanche. St Paul to me in this context refers to not giving into the desires of the flesh. And yet what do we see around us?

We see that happening more and more. Tattoos, Piercings, Implants, Sexual Behaviour, Transgenderism and so on and so forth. It's my body, my choice. People ultimately, not taking responsibility for the care and health of their body, through fast food, alcohol, smoking. We are even starting to see themes of polygamy, and normalisation of paedophilia through the use of the term, Minor Attracted Person.

Yes, we may be talking extremes. But once, some of these things listed above would be seen as extreme.

I acknowledge, there is a fine line to observe. What we Conservative Christians want to ensure however, is that we don't cross that line from what is reasonable and good, to absolute debauchery, as we normalise and desensitse ourselves to the obsessive, compulsive, corruptible flesh that gives into temptation to seek its next fix.

Sex, is good. But sex outside of marriage through affairs, is not so good. Love may be love. But not all love, is beneficial. I rather think that the Church of england, has not quite thought this through. But of course, the Anglican church reflects society. The Catholic church reflects God.

Forgive them, for they know not what they do?

These words that Jesus spoke on the cross, are quite profound - even at a simple level. And when you dig deeper, they are even more incredible.

Here, on the cross, Jesus was suffering - he had committed no sin, yet had been persecuted, sentenced to death, physically assaulted, in immense pain and anguish.

Yet, he did not seek revenge, he did not direct his anger, if indeed there was any, outward to anyone else. He didn't call for anybody else to suffer, and he didn't complain about how unfairly he was treated.

How many of us, as we live our lives, face injustice, humiliation, bad treatment or receive criticism? Yet unlike Jesus, we engage in whataboutism, we point out the sins of others, we justify our own behaviour based on what someone else has done to us. Someone wounds us, we cut off contact.

It doesn't matter what somneone else does. What we do is we hold our head up high, we face God, we hand over these issues that plague us, the resentment, the animosity, and we live our life right. Other people's behaviour don't matter. Ours does.