London, England, Jul 27, 2007 / 08:52 am
Anglican Archbishop John Sentamu of York issued a plea for unity among members of the worldwide Anglican Church Communion, stating that conservative Anglicans should not boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference and that sexuality issues were not a “test of orthodoxy.”
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the archbishop warned bishops of the conservative Global South that they would be in danger of putting themselves outside the worldwide communion if they carried out their threats to boycott Lambeth next year.
"The thing that unites all Christians is our faith in the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and what makes us Christians is that we participate in the death and resurrection of Christ,” he was quoted as saying.
"The other thing to remember is that we are all sinners in need of God’s grace,” he continued. "As long as someone does not deny the very basic doctrines of the Church - the creation, the death, the resurrection of Christ and human beings being made in the image of God - then the rest really helps but they are not the core message.”