Two archbishops, more than sixty bishops, over three hundred clergy and somewhere near a thousand lay people from around the world came together Wednesday evening for the investiture of the Most Reverend Robert Duncan-the first archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America. The service was held at Christ Church, Plano, TX one of the largest Anglican churches in the world and it was a magnificent time of praise and worship to our Lord and Savior and the marvelous grace that he has showered upon his people.
The Church has always marked the major spiritual events of her common life together by liturgy--common worship. This Investiture service celebrated a new day, a renewed opportunity for Anglican Christian in North America. On the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist, we celebrated our rebirth as the "ones who will go before the Lord announcing his coming." Indeed we have been set free to proclaim the good news of Christ's salvation and to reach out to people everywhere with a message of hope, with a reassurance of God's love for all humanity, a message that our God is powerful and can act to heal and restore the broken and downtrodden.
Bishop preached beautifully as he always does. The church was alive and vibrant and there was no mistaking the presence of the Holy Spirit in our midst. This liturgy has marked a new day and a new initiative to be known by our Lord and to make him known in the world. The new archbishop has charged this new Province to 1) committing Scripture to memory, 2) to reach out to the poor and forgotten 3) to plant 1000 new churches in the next ive years. These challenges would be impossible for us to meet apart from the work of God in our midst but with God's help we can do it.
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