Sermon - Willy Taylor on “Gender Matters”
Willy Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate in London took the opportunity this past Sunday of a break between sermon series to preach on the key issue of gender, authority and sexuality.
45 minutes well worth watching or listening to (audio here)
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Can’t get audio or video where I am. Is there a transcript?
[1] Posted by MichaelA on 7-26-2012 at 10:48 PM · [top]
A good and gracious teaching that cuts through some of the misrepresentations of Christian belief and practice.
It is 45 mins. but doesn’t feel like it. You will find yourself pausing it to ingest the insights rather than longing to get it over with.
[2] Posted by Timothy Fountain on 7-27-2012 at 11:16 AM · [top]
In these St. Helen’s Bishopsgate videos the ministers are never in clericals. Why is that? Do CofE clergy no longer wear collars?
[3] Posted by wyclif on 7-27-2012 at 04:00 PM · [top]
A masterful and beautifully authoritative treatment of gender and sexuality, against our present culture of hedonism and human ‘rights’ neurosis.
We have only one ‘right’ before God, and that is the receipt of the wages of sin.
Thank God for Grace and Gift! Thank God for Jesus!
What would have made this presentation fuller for me, would have been the addition of how our own ‘bent’ or ‘rebellion’ against God would (or could) lead to various forms of wayward sexuality (straight-gay-bi-trans-fettish-bestiality—whatever). Or, just where does my particular bent of wayward sexuality come from?
This is a “there but by the grace of God go I” moment, and…
There is no sin that affects you that is not common to [humanity]. 1Cor 10:13
If we are honest, we each should be able to identify ourselves somewhere within Rev. Taylor’s very succunct and really quite thorough presentation. (One of mine is well covered with same-sex inclination.)
Father Willy has the antidote: surrender to Christ in godly community. We all know how to sin, and often do so frequently, willfully and boldly! We also know how to engage in confession of sin, repentance of life, find and nurture the Word of life and honest accountability each day, and to rely on grace and gift.
It is a tough job—but that is precisely why our Lord sent us the Counselor to be with us, and true Body of Christ in godly community to walk with us.
Blessings, all!
[4] Posted by Zach on 7-28-2012 at 02:53 PM · [top]
Thanks Zach, for your uplifting post.
[5] Posted by MichaelA on 7-28-2012 at 07:13 PM · [top]
No, many do. But a large swathe of Conservative Evangelicals don’t - unless wearing vestments (which they don’t do much of either). All things to all men etc.
[6] Posted by David Ould on 7-29-2012 at 06:11 PM · [top]
Many African parish clergy don’t wear collars either, although for a different reason - they are surprisingly expensive.
[7] Posted by MichaelA on 7-29-2012 at 07:07 PM · [top]
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