Bishop challenges Anglicans to be ‘Christ-centred'
The Bishop of Stafford has called on churchgoers to celebrate Anglicanism and “proclaim what God has done and is doing for us in Jesus Christ”, but to also undertake an honest self-assessment of where they stand with Jesus.
The Rt Rev Gordon Mursell makes his comments in a pastoral letter printed in the February edition of parish magazines in the Diocese of Lichfield.
In the letter, Bishop Mursell says the church only has itself to blame for media reports giving the impression that mainstream churches in the UK have ‘lost it’, or are in ‘terminal decline’....