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Respected evangelist Rico Tice has left the Church of England over its choice to introduce blessings for same-sex {couples}.
Tice, who co-created the Christianity Explored course, advised Evangelicals Now that he left after failing to obtain a passable reply from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in regards to the issues of evangelicals in the direction of the Prayers of Love and Faith.
“We known as upon the archbishop to withstand the affect of cultural values when they’re in opposition to these of the Bible, and did this as a result of it was harming our skill to work with orthodox individuals from different denominations – how may they belief us? We acquired no substantive response from him, and that was a key second in my choice to go away,” he stated.
Tice is a number one evangelical voice and spent a few years as affiliate minister at All Souls Church, Langham Place, in London, the church of the late evangelist John Stott. He now worships at the International Presbyterian Church (IPC), Ealing.
He has retained his permission to evangelise in order that he can proceed to talk in Church of England church buildings however stated it was “important” that he exhibit a “clear separation from a church that now not affirms Biblical orthodoxy, particularly with regard to preaching repentance”.
Asked whether or not he would possibly ever rejoin the Church of England, he instructed there can be no considered returning as long as the CofE stays on its present course.
“In one sense I’ve by no means left, for I contemplate myself a cradle-to-grave Anglican and I stay deeply dedicated to the Global South mannequin of world Anglicanism. But the unhappy reality is that the Church of England has left Anglicanism,” he stated.
“For me the current state of affairs is completely heartbreaking. In retrospect I used to be naïve about our present tradition within the Church of England, as a result of I by no means thought I’d see such a transparent, pervasive denial of the Christian’s must repent of each sin they commit.”
More on this subject:
The future for evangelicals within the Church of England
Prayers of Love and Faith and the dilemma dealing with the House of Bishops
Bishops’ Prayers of Love and Faith lead misplaced souls farther from Christ
