One final thought from the American Episcopal Church for today.  It was recently reported that, for them, the decisions of their General Convention (their General Synod) were deemed to be the most authoritative way of knowing God’s will.

Forgive me, but that seems just a little arrogant.  I’m rather glad that the Church of England says clearly two things about that:

1.  The Thirty-Nine Articles make it clear that Councils (and Conventions) can and do err – no human ‘parliamentary’ decision can ever permanently and infallibly reveal God’s will.  They need to be tested.

2.  And the place of testing is the Bible – which all the Anglican formularies have as our primary source of authority.  Rather more objectivity and security in the way we do things, methinks.