WHAT THE BISHOP SAID

Random and out of context quotes from Bishop Mark Lawrence's address to the Reconvened Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina:

I do not wish to keep you long this morning, though I may.
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At our Diocesan Convention in 2009 I put forward what I believed was a God-given and gospel vision that would guide us through the stormy waters facing us at that time. The vision was succinctly stated as, “Making Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age.”
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It is my great pleasure to announce at this Reconvened Annual Convention that he (Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, retired Bishop of Rochester in England) has agreed to be Visiting Bishop in South Carolina for Anglican Communion Relationships.
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Certainly we have challenged and will continue to challenge a tendency to revise the core doctrines of our church and to reshape the polity of the Episcopal Church through an inappropriate extension of power.
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Along with the voices that just say, “Be quiet and get along,” there are others who say, “Bishop why don’t you just leave? Depart with or without the buildings?” To these voices I say “We still have a God-given vocation within this worldwide struggle.” Not unlike a battalion in a military campaign which is ordered to hold a pass or a position against overwhelming odds—so we are called to resist what many of us believe is a self-destructive trajectory within the Episcopal Church; to resist until it is no longer possible and at the same time to help shape the emerging Anglicanism in the 21st Century, which is increasingly relational and less institutional.