Pity the poor parish vicar. They face many dilemmas. Like, how can they facilitate the 1662 traditionalist, the evangelical traditionalist and the Holy Spirit-hungry innovators? Ten or 20 years ago, the vicar may have thought of himself as a charismatic Anglican, a minority in a cosmopolitan denomination. Because the evangelicals, of whom the charismatics are a subgroup, have come to be the main providers of ministry candidates and found a new confidence, this same vicar may now think of himself as an Anglican charismatic.
He or she may be sneaking in times of worship or opportunities to exercise spiritual gifts, and wanting to give equal weight to both form and freedom. (...)
Autor: Dave Roberts
Jahr: 2000
Update: 18.10.2010
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