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AFFIRM Hub 2022 - Lenten Course

2/2/2022

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We were very encouraged by the response to the ZOOM Series AFFIRM put on last year and have decided to do another series throughout 2022. 
 
The theme for the year is "Crossroads: When World and Gospel Meet." There will be various presenters throughout the year with a variety of subjects all focussed on Mission. Our aim is to show how our Five Fold Mission Statements are integrated and dependent on each other. 
 
We will let you know as each one comes up with plenty of time to advertise.   As before they can be done by individuals or with a small group (especially while we are in the Red "Traffic Light" zone). 

For more detail - see the AFFIRM Hub 2022 page.

We trust that you will find the series helpful as many did last year.
 
It is our honour to be serving the Church in this way.
Every blessing,
Lorraine and Pete Lloyd
AFFIRM 

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A Useful Resource - Bishop Graham Dow

28/2/2021

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Graham Dow (Bishop of Carlisle, UK, 2000-2009 and previously Bishop of Willesden, London), who has spearheaded healing ministry wherever he has worked, has made available together on his website his addresses, sermons and articles as well as catalogues of his books (out of print items available from him) and teaching CDs.
https://www.bishopgrahamdow.com/


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Launch of the CHristian Community

8/11/2020

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Ongoing thoughts

21/9/2019

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Good to chat last night. I realized after the conversation that I felt sad about the state of the church in NZ. But when I thought about it, I wasn't really sad about motion 29 and it's associated changes. I'm sad about the lack of many good examples of effective mission and healthy growing churches. I really hope this becomes the focus of the Affirm Christian Community - a network of churches committing to being more effective in mission for the full biblical gospel, and willing to take risks. Imagine if the affirm Christian community became known as the church planting wing of Anglicanism in NZ. Like, the Christian Community, I think, has to push against the voices inside it which want to make the focus (in word, or in deed) to be preserving doctrine. Having good doctrine is a necessary pre-requisite of the mission, but it is not the mission. Many churches with correct doctrine have died. I think y'all should be saying, with one accord: 'we have an opportunity and authorization to come together and get serious about getting effective in the mission. Let's take that opportunity and see what God will do.

Peter Williamson
Chaplain at Harvard University
InterVarsity’s Harvard Team Leader for Post-grad Student Ministry
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Why I voted against the Motion 29 recommendations, and why I’m still not leaving!

21/11/2018

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By The Revd Dr Andrew Burgess, Bishopdale College, Nelson

I am not a Bishop, or a Vicar General, nor an Archdeacon. I’m not even a member of Standing Committee. I’m just ‘Burge’ … but I want to offer my thoughts as someone who ‘represented’ Nelson Diocese at the General Synod.
The General Synod or Te Hinota Whanui of the Anglican Church in these islands voted to adopt the recommendations of what we have been calling Motion 29 report. (The actual motion at the 2018 meeting we just had was Motion 7, just to confuse things, but it adopted the Motion 29 recommendations, with some minor changes.)
I don’t want to try and go into detail on the report – for many people reading this the key issue is straight-forward, and that is the acceptance of blessings for same-sex couples in a civil union or marriage. The church, as a whole, agreed to allow Bishops to choose to have some sort of service or part of a service written, and for those Bishops to allow an ordained Anglican minister to use that material for a blessing of a civil union or civil marriage, regardless of the gender of the couple, and so on.

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Time for Love - A Response

19/5/2018

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by Bryden Black, Easter 2018

First impressions of this documentary (that is what it calls itself) are that it is first rate, well produced, and with a suitably beguiling sound track (music by Ludovico Einaudi, by any chance). As far as the medium of ‘talking heads’ go, it seeks to present a biblical case for at least same-sex blessings and ideally for same-sex marriage. Its avowed audience furthermore are those who seek themselves to acknowledge a high view of biblical authority. Does it achieve its goals? Apart from dispelling the usual miscues sometimes/often paraded in these discussions (e.g. the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen 19), frankly, in my opinion, no; it fails. Not only did we not actually hear new ground being broken here, the old arguments assembled via an array of interviewees continue finally not to convince. And it fails to convince for a number of reasons, some specifically and others cumulatively. We shall take some specific reasons first.

The full article can be downloaded here.

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AFFIRM Report on General Synod 2018

11/5/2018

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  1. A team of up to 10 people met twice a day in New Plymouth to pray for the General Synod. Thank you to those of you who could not be present but prayed in support also.
  2. Despite the Conservative / Orthodox voice speaking and voting against motion 29, the motion was passed by a majority at the General Synod on the 9th May 2018.
  3. Bishops may, when asked, agree to clergy blessing same gender couples who have had civil union or civil marriage services.
  4. The question of ordination was left deliberately vague and some Bishops will take that to mean that they can ordain someone in a same sex relationship who has been through a blessing service.
  5. Despite this AFFIRM will remain as part of this Church and continue to bring our voice to any future debates.
  6. The AFFIRM submission for new Christian Communities to be established has been accepted 
  7. Most importantly any Parish that joins the Community will be assured that future clergy appointments to that Parish MUST have the same theology as the Parish when it joined the Christian Community.
  8. A Constitution for the Christian Communities, already in draft form, is being completed.
  9. The motion from Auckland to review Christian Marriage was defeated.
  10. We will be sending more detailed information on 6 and 7 above shortly outlining where we go from here.
  11. We will be calling meetings of the various AFFIRM groups around the country in the next few weeks to share in detail what AFFIRM will be doing.
  12. In the meantime, if you have any comments or questions please feel free to contact Paul Williamson, Lorraine or Pete Lloyd.
  13. It is of the utmost importance that we now turn our focus to how to reach this Nation for Christ and the Church. We know that this is at the top of the agenda for all of us. AFFIRM will now be able to focus on this and the Christian Community network will provide a strong new platform to unite and resource parishes in this mission.
The AFFIRM Team
11 May 2018
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Clarity and Grace

30/8/2017

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A series of talks given by Tim Harris, Assistant Bishop of Adelaide, at the AFFIRM Conference in August 2017:    
(Click on the titles to download the PDFs.)
  1. Messy relationships: the way of Christ, and the righteous faith concerns of the Pharisees
  2. The Gospel and One People of God: Paul and mission in Rome
  3. Testing the spirits: 1 John 4 and the two key questions of faith

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Bryden Black responds to the Interim Report oF the Working Group

30/8/2017

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Response to the Interim Report of the Working Group I’m not certain whether this “accommodation” is “beautiful” or not. It is certainly an accommodation. That is to say, it is an organizational, and therefore political, solution to a perceived human problem. And as such, it might indeed have much to commend it (e.g. Orders of Consecrated Life; Respectful Climate). Whether it is also an appropriate and due Church solution - that is something else again, entirely.


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A Story of God's Marvellous Provision

6/6/2017

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From the Staff - A Story of Encouragement at God's marvellous provision!
We decide these things can probably start in June or July while the situation may have changed by people getting food from their farms. But you know what happened, I forgot to correspond our big outreach beofre Easter! We had invited people from the Cathedral of Holy Spirit in Dodoma, people from Mpwapwa and people from Iringa and Manyoni. All the old DCT were invited to come and evangelize and see our worker! But you know what? We sent the invitation the end of December, but sadly while transferring the outreach from March 23-26 to August, we forgot end to inform them! So today without our knowledge we started receiving teams and choirs here in Kondoa as the plan was outreach for Kondoa Town! So many people from far away as Iringa came today! But you what we did not have was food to feed them or any money to hold the outreach! Both Pastor Kaka and I panicked!

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