We may define sin differently, certainly we don t all commit the same sins, but we are all sinners in need of repentance and there are none among us who have the right to cast stones. In this we not only need the help of God, we also need the strength and support of our whole community to resist evil and keep our eyes on Jesus. We also need the whole community if we truly are to proclaim the Good News of God in Christ. There is no one way to reach all people and, perhaps, our greatest strength in the Anglican Communion is our ability to encompass the breadth and depth of Christian witness within our church. Thank God we have evangelicals and charismatics and Anglo-catholics and conservatives and liberals, and the list goes on and on.
Every witness is equally important.
We need to be about the business of proclaiming the Good News in all our varied ways as we the church not as them and us. Finally, we promise to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving them as we love ourselves and we promise to strive for justice and peace and respect the dignity of every human being. These are not easy promises. They stretch us to reach out beyond ourselves and those like us. These are questions that will face our Diocese more and more in the months and years to come as our society and church continue to change and evolve.