From Australia-
AUSTRALIA'S Anglican Church is merely papering over the cracks of serious internal fractures and is running out of time, the Sydney Archbishop, Peter Jensen said.
Dr Jensen said the triennial General Synod (national parliament), which ended in Melbourne yesterday, was a missed opportunity.
''It's a business meeting, but we needed a vision meeting,'' he said. The church needed to bring together visionaries with fresh ideas about how to minister to people, not politicians from the various dioceses.''
He said he had proposed that the synod be replaced with such a meeting and several bishops were interested, but the idea ran out of steam.
''Synods have their place, but they don't do the vision,'' Dr Jensen said.
He said the synod was superficial, ignoring fundamental problems that had to be addressed: ''We are losing time to bring together Australian Anglicans of different ages to grapple with the problems and how to do Christian ministry.''
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http://www.smh.com.au/national/church-needs-new-vision-says-jensen-20100923-15ovm.html
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