Group reviews church structures: report says change is 'needed and inevitable'.STAFF Mississauga, Ont. A working group has completed its review of the way the Anglican Church of Canada is being governed, paving the way for discussion and possible action at General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had 2007. Change is needed and inevitable, said the governance working group, created last year following a request made by General Synod in 2004 that the Council of General Synod (CoGS These are all the Cogs found in Disney's Toontown Online. Names that are moved forward are leaders of the HQ of that specific Cog type. Bossbots
In its report, the group cited as reasons for reviewing the church's governance: "the widely held view that our church is over-governed, i.e., our governance structures are too big, too multi-layered and too complicated;" the reality of "a lack of money at virtually every level of our church; and the "distinct lack of interest in 'running' the institution among many of its younger members." But the "most important and immediate" factor is the endorsement in 2004 by General Synod of the New Agape agape In the New Testament, the fatherly love of God for humans and their reciprocal love for God. The term extends to the love of one's fellow humans. The Church Fathers used the Greek term to designate both a rite using bread and wine and a meal of fellowship that included proposal for a self-governing aboriginal "church within a church," the group said. "As this plan moves to fruition fru·i·tion n. 1. Realization of something desired or worked for; accomplishment: labor finally coming to fruition. 2. Enjoyment derived from use or possession. 3. profound changes in our governing structures will take place at national, provincial, diocesan di·oc·e·san adj. Of or relating to a diocese. n. The bishop of a diocese. diocesan Adjective of or relating to a diocese Noun 1. and even parish levels." The group also said that the conflict within the Anglican Communion Anglican Communion, the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as over the issue of homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing also raises the "distinct possibility" of a split along theological lines which could result in "two or more separately or largely separate Anglican entities in Canada." Council members later considered the points raised by the working group in its report and offered feedback, among them, that the wider church should be involved in the discussion around governance and structures. CoGS later passed a resolution directing the planning and agenda team to "remandate" the governance working group to "develop further the work begun, using the feedback from the May 2006 Council meeting" and to report on the progress at the fall meeting, "with proposed new structures to be presented to the March 2007 meeting" of the Council. |
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