Bishop urges people of Britain to arise for Christian truth

Ceirion H Dewar, a missionary bishop within the Confessing Anglican Church (CAC), has called upon the people of Britain to repent and return to the Christian faith.

The CAC was founded in 2019 and, although not a component of the Anglican Communion, sees its spiritual roots as going back to the earliest days of Christianity within the British Isles.

Bishop Dewar last month wrote an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, calling upon him to finish the “erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance”.

In recent days some have criticised the King, who can be Supreme Governor of the Church of England and “Defender of the Faith”, for issuing a special message for Ramadan this yr, but declining to achieve this for Easter.

In his latest open letter, Bishop Dewar noted that the King had “not responded to the plea that was set before him”.

Addressing himself to the British people, the bishop said that Christianity had previously been central to British life, describing it as an anchor of truth around which all the country’s institutions, morals and customs had been built.

That morality, he argued, is now being replaced by something else.

“The moral language that after shaped them [our institutions] is being systematically redefined. We see it inside parts of the Church itself, where the decision to holiness is softened, and the demands of the age are too often given greater weight than the Word of God. And we’re told that that is progress. It is just not progress. It is decline!” he said. 

This decline, he argues, stems from the willingness to bend and compromise to the spirit of the age, all done on the expense of everlasting truth. The outcome is a rustic which is unrecognisable.

“If you may have checked out this nation and felt that something is fallacious, you are usually not mistaken. If you may have sensed that we’re losing something deeper than politics, you are usually not imagining it,” Dewar continued. 

To reverse the decline the people themselves should be willing repent and to face for truth, he argued.

“Stand in your homes, and teach your kids what’s true, even when the world says otherwise. Stand in your churches, and demand the Gospel in its fullness, not a diluted echo of the age. Stand in your communities, and live with a conviction that can’t be reshaped by passing opinion. Stand in the general public square, and speak without fear,” he said. 

The bishop concluded his open letter with a prayer that God would grant the people of Britain a heart of repentance and courage, and that God would renew the country.