Being Anglican and being evangelical today

I'm happy to simply be known as a Christian. Full stop. In many ways, there's no need to qualify the statement with categories like 'Anglican' and 'evangelical'. Quite often, these terms are only used in a negative way, as in "The problem with Anglicans is...", or "Well, you know what evangelicals are like..."

In today's sermon, I looked rather more positively at these terms which, like them or not, help to define the inheritance and identity of St Paul's Church.

Despite much radical pruning, the sermon is one of the longest I've preached. I'm grateful to the patient congregation at St Paul's for being so attentive, and especially grateful to John, who told me after the service, "It didn't feel long at all". Such kindness!

Here's an audio version, in .mp3 format: http://www.sjharvey.org.uk/sermons/2007/20070121.mp3

and as a Word document: http://www.sjharvey.org.uk/sermons/2007/20070121.doc

The bible readings were Nehemiah 8.1-3, 5-6, 8-10 and Luke 4.14-21.

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