Words and deeds
May 29th, 2005 | By admin | Category: MinistryThe Gospel reading for today in Anglican and Catholic Churches was the old Sunday School story about the wise man building his house upon the rock and the foolish man building his house upon the sand. It finishes saying that Jesus “taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.”
It reminded me of an incident fifteen years ago caused me to question the authority and the integrity of our bishops.
Ministering in a tiny rural, intensely conservative community, there would not have seemed much …