Next year needs to focus on research, prayer and training if our churches are going to be ready for the Connect 09 mission.

You can get a sense of what I am saying by reading both the whole of the HOB statement and Bishop Mouneer’s dissenting opinion. If it is true that the Americans have failed to deliver, you can see why this is the case. We are confronted with two great passions for a gospel. It is hardly an answer at all to the Primates: it’s really, passionately all about a gospel of inclusion. Most don’t regret what they have done – not for a moment. This is a missionary faith. Far from retreating, they hope that all will come to agree with them and they are making arrangements for this to happen.

‘Crisis’, ‘schism’, ‘division’, ‘break-up’ – this has been the language of the last five years in the Anglican Communion. Again and again we have reached ‘defining moments’, ‘crucial meetings’ and ‘turning points’, only to discover that they simply lead into another period of uncertainty. Uncertainty is now over. The decisive moments have passed. Irreversible actions have occurred.

We must now all take the actions and do the thinking required to safeguard biblical truth, not merely in the West but throughout the Anglican world. To fail here, will be to waste the time and effort which has brought us to this fateful hour.

The virtual mid-point of our 10-year Diocesan Mission program prompts us to ask again why we have chosen the figure of 10 per cent in our plans to reach the population of our region in a decade.

It is an age of novelty in congregational life. Whether we like it or not both minister and people are willing, on the whole, to break with the past and to experiment with the way in which they meet as God’s people.

This is the Presidential Address delivered by Archbishop Peter Jensen at the 2007 synod of the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church.

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The Presidential Address delivered by Archbishop Peter Jensen at the 2007 synod of the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church.

An introductory talk by Archbishop Peter Jensen on the most valuable relationship you could ever begin, delivered at Annandale Community Church.

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I have a dream – a dream to give all our fellow citizens in the Diocese a copy of the word of God.

It is often held that gospel outreach amongst seniors is easy. It is thought that with age comes a clearer vision of the eternity that waits beyond the grave. But I am not sure aging does have this effect.

The eighth in a series of sermons preached at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Castle Hill, titled 'Who Am I?', examining the book of 1 Peter.

Tired of going to church? Ask yourself this: am I tired of meeting Jesus Christ?

The seventh in a series of sermons preached at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Castle Hill, titled 'Who Am I?', examining the book of 1 Peter.

Whether secular thinkers like it or not, church and state in Australian society have many points of intersection. The relationship could not possibly be unravelled without immense harm to the state and to the nation.

In spiritual matters, experience does count. But there are dangers in building our faith on miraculous dreams and visions.

There are evil people in jail and proper punishment on behalf of their victims is appropriate. However prison is an expensive, discriminatory and ineffective method of ensuring our beloved “law and order”.

It is natural that Christian parents should long for their children to be believers. We have to acknowledge, however, that this is not an outcome we can organise or guarantee.

The third in a series of three talks delivered by Archbishop Peter Jensen at the Northern Region preaching conference in 2007.

The second in a series of three talks delivered by Archbishop Peter Jensen at the Northern Region preaching conference in 2007.

The first in a series of three talks delivered by Archbishop Peter Jensen at the Northern Region preaching conference in 2007.

Two hundred years ago the British Parliament passed laws that brought an end of the transatlantic slave trade. This Easter we remember the doing away of another slavery in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The 2007 Easter message from Archbishop Peter Jensen

Conversion to Christ is the great moment of liberation and cleansing.

How we behave while facing divisions will reflect our capacity to love others – a crucial ingredient in true Christian unity.