Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, March 12, 2012

VOL Dronings: Anglican 1000 for 2012


Virtue, the self-appointed
and self-acclaimed "Voice"
of worldwide and authentic
Anglicanism. 
The VOL drone, staffed by an ex-Anabaptist, an ex-Baptist cleric, Virtue himself, carries the following "eye-roller" at:  http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15686.  It's always hard to take VOL seriously as a reader, student, writer or analyst.  Imagine such an "enthusiastic" title as "First Century Christianity Blossoms at Anglican 1000," as if VOL will tell us exactly how that unfolds--congruent to the thoughts and autonomic nervous systems of the A1000 leaders.  Sure, VOL, tell us more.

First Century Christianity Blossoms at Anglican 1000
A VOL EXCLUSIVE

By Mary Ann Mueller in Plano, Texas
Special Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org
March 7, 2012

PLANO, TEXAS - For three days last week, four hundred Anglicans descended upon Christ Church-Plano - a venue very familiar to them - to engage in the profoundly Biblical activity of church planting. This was done in a manner very reminiscent of the way the Apostles did it in the First Century.

In fact, there were several direct descendents of the apostles present - 15 bishops gathered from across the United States and Canada. They were lead by Archbishop Robert Duncan who acted as a modern-day Apostle Paul. It was Archbishop Duncan who, at his investiture as ACNA's first primate, challenged the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to plant 1000 Anglican congregations during the first five years of the newly emerging American Anglican province.

Conference presenters urged their conferees to turn to the Scriptures for a true blueprint in bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to a broken, sin-sick world starving for the truth of the Gospel. They are sharing the Good News with nursing homes and retirement centers, college campuses, and out into the streets and byways of the city - anywhere where people are alone and hurting and in need of the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
For more droning, see:  http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=15686

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