First, does your message expose (exposit) the Scripture? Does it get the congregation to the heart of the passage read, or is it used like a springboard to make personal pronouncements hoping it will lead to better behavior? Let the Scriptures speak for heaven's sake; it is God's word and so much more interesting than anything you have to say!

The time has now come to admit and declare the great and sad farewell to authentic Anglicanism -- already achieved by those rogue elements within the church utterly opposed to the constitutional and confessional character of the good ship Ecclesia Anglicana. Mutineers and pirates have jumped aboard and reprehensible bishops and erring theologians have taken hold of the helm. There is an outright revolt against heavenly truth and holy living.

Bishop Provost of New York resigned in 1801. Bishop White made only one general diocesan visitation in his long tenure as Bishop of Pennsylvania. Bishop James Madison seemed to have resigned himself to the demise of the church in Virginia after only one diocesan visitation and called no more conventions after 1805 and attended no more meetings of the bishops.

The Church listens intently, and conveys carefully, the message of God to his world. Its aim and aspiration is to speak to mankind with spot-on accuracy, translucent clarity and infectious conviction. We fallible witnesses to the Word will not fully comply with the divine ideal, but the Spirit of God must be implored to resource the People of God with sufficiency of comprehension and skillful communication to commend Christ as Lord and Redeemer to the estranged mass of sinful humanity.