Sunday, April 29, 2012

Common Prayer & Common Grace

If anything, as Anglicans we value Common Prayer rather than Common Theology, at least in anything beyond the Creeds.

Our Church is grounded on the premise that what it matters is what we say in Common Prayer with a clear conscience. Thus Protestants and Catholics were able to sit together at the Lord's Table, recognizing their -- and our! -- Common Unworthiness "To gather up the crumbs under (The Lord's) Table."

As Psalm 51 aptly reminds us, we all are born in sin. And what it really unites us in the Body of Christ is our Common Sinfulness, our Common Redemption, and the Common Grace that it is bestowed on us by the Father of Mercies.

Right?