disillusioned

There was an e-mail awaiting me this morning from a lady who's attending big church for the first time.

She was surprised and shocked and left totally at a loss by what had gone on on Saturday night.

And she signed herself off 'a very disillusioned commissioner'.

Today will not have helped her, I fear.

There was an 'overture' (aka a motion) from folk from Lochcarron and Skye which sought to give big church the chance to address the whole matter of the appropriate context of a sexual relationship at the level of principle and to make it clear what the standards are we affirm.

It was scheduled for 4pm.

By 7pm, without being addressed at all, it had finally been withdrawn.

A wise move, some will say. It might have been contentious.

Clever, others will say. A neat little bit of manoeuvring which avoids an awkward debate.

But what does it say about a church, I wonder, when the one group of people who have sought to have big church address the matter in a principled sort of way are the one group of people whose motion is never heard?

And who, instead, get shunted out of the way.