Past posts have reported on the Amazing Grace Project in Canada. Here's a reflection on what some have learned from it. Oh Canada!
As Ali Symons notes in a recent web article, the Amazing Grace Project gives us a wonderful window into the national life of the Anglican Church of Canada.
It also says a great deal about what we are and what we can be.
Watching the videos over the past 10 days, it has become very clear to me that the "national church" is far from just a building and staff in Toronto (though they're part of it.) Rather it consists of ministries from coast to coast to coast through which God touches and transforms the life of the world. The life of the Anglican Church of Canada is intensely local. It takes place not "anywhere", but in thousands of somewheres where people celebrate, learn and serve.
At the same time, our national church is something more than just the sum of Anglican ministries across the country. Our Primate, Fred Hiltz, captures some of what that "something more" is when he speaks of "our beloved church."
The Amazing Grace Project goes behind the headlines—quarrelling and division, hurt and suspicion—to the common life of our church. Canadian Anglicans know we are part of something that is alive and purposeful, and that our diversities—racial, linguistic, geographic and theological—are part of that purpose.
http://www.anglican.ca/news/news.php?newsItem=2008-12-09_as.news
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