The Episcopal Church, through its new leader Mrs. Jefferts Schori, has nixed the idea that Episcopalians ought to reproduce themselves; the church's money is drying up because increasing numbers of dioceses cannot extract it from dying parishes and orthodox dioceses do not believe in her definition of "mission" with the bulk of the national church's money coming from dead men's trust funds and endowments. Finally, Episcopal leaders have demonstrated a near complete loss of confidence in the faith they purportedly say they uphold. In Arkansas last week Mrs. Schori had this to say at her first consecration about whether she could "affirm" Jesus' statement: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." She does so with caveats. Here is what she said: "I certainly don't disagree with that statement that Jesus is the way and the truth and the life. But the way it's used is as a truth serum, or a touchstone: If you cannot repeat this statement, then you're not a faithful Christian or person of faith. I think Jesus as way - that's certainly what it means to be on a spiritual journey. It means to be in search of relationship with God. We understand Jesus as truth in the sense of being the wholeness of human expression. What does it mean to be wholly and fully and completely a human being? Jesus as life, again, an example of abundant life. We understand him as bringer of abundant life but also as exemplar. What does it mean to be both fully human and fully divine? Here we have the evidence in human form. So I'm impatient with the narrow understanding, but certainly welcoming of the broader understanding." Asked about the rest of Christ's declaration: "No man cometh unto to the father but by me," Jefferts Schori continued. "Again in its narrow construction, it tends to eliminate other possibilities. In its broader construction, yes, human beings come to relationship with God largely through their experience of holiness in other human beings. Through seeing God at work in other people's lives. In that sense, yes, I will affirm that statement. But not in the narrow sense, that people can only come to relationship with God through consciously believing in Jesus," she said. And you wonder why orthodox Episcopalians are fleeing the church in droves. Her statements convert nobody and nothing. *****

 
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(It is apostasy on the part of Presiding Bishop Schori not to believe that "no man cometh to the Father, but by Jesus Christ."  Jesus shed his blood and died on the cross for our sins in our place and that we might receive eternal life rather than to end up in hell and in the lake of fire.  It is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth us of all sin according to 1 John 1:7. John 1:9 also says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins , and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.")