You know what London really needs is a seminar in which ministers and worship leaders can re-discover the worship resources of the whole historic Church and discover a thicker, or deeper, exegesis of Scripture.
We did have such a seminar briefly a couple of years ago. It was called Deep Church. It was looking for ways to recover the practices of preaching, prayer, proper emphasis on communion and baptism, and to improving our catechism and theological teaching. I wonder what happened to it?
It produced a book The Gospel-Driven Church: Retrieving Classical Ministries for Contemporary Revivalism, billed as the first of a Deep Church Series.
New Deep Church lectures
I see that Andrew Walker is giving a series of lectures at the brand new Westminster Theological Centre, under the same Deep Church title. I wonder if these two deep churches are related? Professor Walker is a charismatic evangelical member of the Russian Orthodox Church (worth going along just to ask) and well known for his work on C.S. Lewis and the Inklings.
Yet we do have our very own one-man ‘Deep Church’, right here in London, at Lambeth, and Williams is his name. The Sermons and Speeches page of the website of the Archbishop of Canterbury is a trough deep with Christian resources. You want to know more about what he says without actually reading them yourself? Shame on you. All right. Let me see what I can do.
