Christ Anglican Church
Office Hours
Monday - Wednesday 9:00-2:00
Closed on Thursday
Friday 9:00-2:00
Church office phone: 828-526-2320
Email: office@christanglicanchurch.com
Schedule - Week of May 24, 2009
Sunday, May 24: 10:00 AM Adult Sunday School/Forum - 11:00 AM Worship Service (Fr. Jim Murphy will be celebrating and preaching)
Monday, May 25: 6:00 PM - Monday Evening Bible Study - Location TBA (a light supper will be served after the study)
Friday, May 29: 11:00 AM - Bible Study at Chestnut Hill
Looking Ahead . . . .
Welcome Back Luncheon!!! Sunday, June 14th - Welcome back to all our Summer Parishioners - put the date on your calendar! Bishop Grundorf will be with us that week-end also. Location: Summer Chapel (directions will follow)
We all know that Synod is in July - Space is filling up fast! You will not get a hotel room if you procrastinate. Get yourself all set up for synod by clicking on this link: http://anglicanprovince.org/synod2009.html Do it all online quick and easy!
Vision/Mission Statement
Christ Anglican Church is traditional and conservative. We are Christ-centered, orthodox and guided and directed by Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. Our doctrine is “mere Christianity” as stated in the Nicene, Apostles’, and Athanasian creeds and the Articles of Religion on the Anglican Communion.
Our services emphasize both word and sacrament, using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. We believe that the beautiful and reverent language of the Book of Common Prayer helps direct our souls to the worship of Almighty God and strengthens us in our daily life of prayer. This ancient and lovely liturgy is an offering of our best to God, and expresses our hearts’ desire to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Our mission is to serve the Highlands/Cashiers area by bringing the riches of Apostolic Christianity and the beauty of traditional Anglican worship to all who are open to or searching for spiritual growth. We strive to build up our own members in Christ, and to reach out to others, inviting them to share the blessings of this fellowship. At the same time, we recognize that love for God is unreal unless it is manifested in love for neighbor. Therefore, we are a Church of service to others, ever mindful that we are the hands and feet of our Lord Jesus upon earth.
This is in response to a recent comment that we need “some basics” when people question us about “why we are Anglicans”
We are Anglican because we believe :
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. Jesus is the Savior through whom Salvation is found.
We believe in the Authority of Scripture . The Bible is the Word of God, written. The authors wrote under the inspiration and authority of the Holy Spirit.
We believe in Salvation (through Christ only) which means: Justification - being forgiven and made righteous (respectable, honest, upright) in God’s sight – and – Conversion - accepting Christ as our Savior by repentance (changing our sinful ways) and by our faith (professing Jesus as our Lord and Savior and, then, living our lives under His authority). Instead of a Gospel of repentance, some churches have adopted a gospel of acceptance.
We believe in the authority of the Church and remaining an active, willing, and obedient member of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
We follow Traditional and Orthodox Christian teachings on Scripture, the definition of Marriage, Authority, and Christ’s message and teachings. I state it this way because some other denominations have become “Revisionist” (doctrine can be revised, reviewed, reconsidered, modified and adjusted as culturally desired) and “Pluriform” (there are many ways to God) as stated by a recently retired Presiding Bishop of a mainstream, though declining, American church. (Christ did not say, I am one of the Ways…)
We make decisions based upon Scripture, Tradition and Reason (with Scripture always having primacy – which is how Richard Hooker originally designed the “process” in the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in defense of the Anglican Church in 1593)
**Note that I have not mentioned, sex, gender, same-sex, blessing. It's not about sex, it's about authority.
In all, we must explain who we are, rather than who we are not, and do so in a loving and, above all, Christian manner.
