Over the years, movements and figures of power have come and gone in the Church of England and in the wider Anglican Communion. We are all, however, people who are in communion with one another by virtue of our common life in Christ through Baptism, the Holy Eucharist, and worship in accordance with this Book. Because we come from so many different places, cultures, languages, and varieties of social experience, we have come to know the Gospel of God in Jesus Christ in sometimes dramatically variant forms. We have to respect this, and to acknowledge that God still speaks to each different culture, country, diocese, even parish in a voice that we can hear and in words that we need to hear. To many, this is difficult to understand.
Every human being sees the world through different eyes.
We encounter God in this culture, in this time. We serve the Lord as the Lord has been revealed to us, making decisions with the very minds and consciences with which our God created us. Our neighbors might be aghast at the fact that we support or don't support capital punishment or other political issues, but that doesn't mean that we can't love one another. Likewise, some of our sisters and brothers in other provinces of the Anglican Communion may believe that we are mistaken in ordaining women, or in trying reexamine our attitudes towards sexual orientation. That is their privilege.