"the inability to uphold structures which can make decisions which carry force in the life of the Churches of the Communion...the questions of the limits of diversity [which] becomes acute when major differences arise in the life of the communion of the Churches which concern the faith, order or moral life of the Communion.

We can, however, hold this experience out before us as an idea without participating in it with our personal shame, guilt, hopes, despair, and pride. We must repent. There is a symbiotic relationship between repentance and justification. The wonderful freeing confident experience of justification (catch 22) is not accessible without repentance and true repentance cannot be accomplished without the experience of justification.

The WCF is enormously beneficial to the thought and ministry of Refomationally-minded folk within the orbit of Anglican conviction and custom. It is emphatic concerning the core truths embraced by authentic Anglicanism with reference to Holy Scripture and the Way of Salvation through Jesus Christ alone. It emboldens the grasp and commendation of the magnificent doctrines of grace powerfully expressed in its clear and consistent content.

Her essential campaign, whether conscious or not, seems to be to de-personalize the guilt of individual human sin and assign responsibility for evil principally to the cosmic powers opposed to God, and oppressive toward man, which tendency happens to produce a lopsided emphasis on Christus Victor(an undoubted vital factor in an overall view of the atonement) and a strong tendency seriously to downplay the absolute necessity of penal substitution specifically.