The Lord’s Prayer
Lee Gatiss talks to Ros Clarke about his latest book, and the ways in which we can work with God in the task of reforming and renewing the church in biblical faith.
Lee Gatiss discusses three examples from church history showing different ways of contending for the gospel.
The latest issue of The Global Anglican is now available.
We talk a lot about reforming the church. We talk about bishops, synods, structures, money, appointments, theological colleges and national strategy. Some of that matters enormously. Bad structures can frustrate good ministry. Bad appointments can do immense damage. Institutions can either serve the gospel or obstruct it. But even if we fixed all of that tomorrow, we could still have a spiritually weak church. Because you cannot reform the church without reforming Christians.
Christians sometimes talk as though cultural marginalisation makes gospel growth almost impossible. The first Christians might have found that an odd idea. They had no established church, no Christian schools, no historic buildings, no representation in the corridors of power, and certainly no sympathetic media. At various points they faced ridicule, official suspicion and persecution. Yet Christianity grew.
It is relatively easy to say that the Church of England needs reform. The more uncomfortable question is: what are we actually going to do about it?
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