Sublime

Engaging God’s Mission in the 21st Century: Final Report of the Task Force for Reimagining The Episcopal Church, 2–3. Available at www.generalconvention.org/trecreport.

“inherited-tradition congregation”

The answer to your community is your church. The Church is God’s plan, God’s move, God’s outpouring. Moves of God come and go, but your local church, God willing, will have a place in your community for generations to come.

There is one mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5), and it is not the pastor or his church programs.

They know that they were not instituted by Christ to undertake by themselves alone the church’s whole mission of salvation to the world; but that it is their noble task to tend the faithful in such a way, and to acknowledge their ministries and their charisms, so that all may cooperate unanimously, each in her or his own way, in the common task.

Narrative sources record three British bishops attending a church council at Arles in 314, so we know that episcopal administration was established in Britannia before or shortly after Constantine’s Christian-inspired victory over his enemies at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 and the official imperial tolerance of Christianity under the