SAILING OFF INTO IRRELEVANCE
(Tuesday) Once again Christianity Today does a great job in articulating the Evangelical response to the whole Episcopal Church fiasco.

"This church split is particularly sad. This was Protestantism's longest cross-cultural effort at institutional unity. It has worked for some 200 years (as Anglican provinces have only slowly become independent since the colonial era). As such it has been a positive witness for Christ, who prayed for unity among his disciples (John 17:11). Such unity -- less formal and driven more by common mission -- is what evangelicals seek when we gather for the international Lausanne conferences."

The editorial also points to the soberingng reality that this split is the result of the church's ongoing inattention to unorthodox behavior and theology over the years. Of course, the Episcopal Church was just trying to be relevant to the world -- the very thing that Evangelicals are busy trying to do themselves.

Link to the editorial