Chris Sugden in Cape Town: Lausanne Day 3

Cyber wars at Lausanne Congress
Anglican Mainstream
October 20th, 2010

What is taking place here at Lausanne shows me for all our difficulties why the struggle for faithful orthodox Anglicanism is so important. For Anglicanism takes very seriously the incarnation of Jesus and the incarnate expression of his church in the community.

A big push is taking place for Lausanne to become institutionalised as the Lausanne Movement, and for this to be a primarily internet based activity, linked with social networks such as Facebook and the 600 global sites where we are told 100,000 people are accessing the video presentations.

The communications people seem to have taken over. It is all about the fact of human communication as the essence rather than developing and exploring the depth of the message. The conference is in danger of becoming a conference about the Lausanne Movement rather than about the word entrusted to the church to share. the rest