Friday, May 14, 2010

Archbishop Goodhew's Five Points

When Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Harry Goodhew, gave his Diocese five points of purpose that one would suggest are relevant to all Anglican Dioceses and Parishes :

OBSERVABLY GOD'S PEOPLE (to emphasise Christian character and life),
PASTORALLY EFFECTIVE (ministering and caring for the people of God),
EVANGELISTICALLY ENTERPRISING (to encourage a range of ways of reaching out to those who do not believe),
GENUINELY CARING (to express the wide range of concerns that loving others and the world that God has created might generate),
DYNAMICALLY ANGLICAN (finding ways in which we can maintain and benefit from our Anglican heritage in doctrine, liturgy, and order in a way that speaks to a world that is different in so many ways from that of the 16th and 17th centuries).