Day four of the conference was asking the question, ‘What next?’ At the 6am communion for the UK contingent (still not experiencing revival) Bp Keith Sinclair framed our day with words from Ephesians 4 to seek our unity in humility, gentleness, patience and love. Our exposition in conference took us back to Jesus’s resurrection and his meeting with the disciples on the road to Emmaus- finding him in God’s Word and enjoying his presence. The church is never just an organisation, but a living organism, a body interconnected and empowered with a purpose together to bring the living God to the world.
Our main talk addressed God’s strategy in all its profound simplicity: To bring salvation through the proclamation of the gospel and a rightly ordered church to bring about transformed and new lives to people by his grace.
(At this point I got a bit behind, so posting this Friday)
After the main session, we had a working lunch on the first draft of a conference statement. There are no pre-written texts but 12 ‘listeners’ pick up things and complete them. The first draft need revising in a number of areas, mainly because it failed to capture the spirit of the conference, and the joy and confidence it feels in being a faithful Anglican fellowship. It certainly felt like that later, as the whole 2000+ conference decamped and were bussed to the Southern steps of the temple, the ones Jesus actually walked up, for a conference photo, efficient you can see on the GAFCON website.
That trip delayed our return for tea, but there was another UK meeting to sum up where we had reached the night before. Everyone is committed to doing something to galvanise unity for the battle ahead for gospel faithfulness, although the is still a latent worry that things may have already gone too far. So the final day is ahead, and we await the outcome with anticipation and joy.
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