About the carol service, something similar happened in a town close to where I live in Oklahoma, USA. A children's church choir was invited to perform at a concert in one of the town's buildings, warming up for a community choir. They unsurprisingly sang traditional Christmas carol arrangements, yet their inclusion received complaints via social media. The concert happened last Sunday and thankfully there hasn't been an apology, but the complaints continue. Hopefully they stay strong and don't apologize.
@Catherine4673-h2hАй бұрын
Hi Dan, I'm really enjoying watching your videos. My husband is a Methodist minister, so we are also exceedingly busy. Lord, we do pray for Dan. Thank You for where You have placed him. Fill his heart with Your hope and Your immense love. Thank You for his faithful ministry - especially when it feels hard to stick with it. May Jesus guard and guide your direction. We bless you and your loved ones in the name of Jesus and send lots of love in the Lord. Amen Xxx
@Ken_oh545Ай бұрын
Anyone who has completed even the basic level of Safeguarding training in the C of E will have noticed how the rules and guidance appear not to apply in any way, shape or form to the senior echelon of the church hierarchy. 'If you think it is a safeguarding matter, then it is' - that is the mantra I recall from the hour of online box-checking required.
@edwardfisher83Ай бұрын
The CofE definitely needs gospel men like you. May you and yours be blessed and protected at this time as we go into Christmas and New Year 2024/25. Jesus asks us to tell it wisely and justly as it really is …. All in humility and by His Spirit.
@philandnic1987Ай бұрын
He also turned the tables over in the temple. What about the victims here, this abuse has been ongoing for years, and many are guilty by omission.
@chrisarmour6634Ай бұрын
I resigned as a licensed minister in the church of england in 2007 as even then, I could see the clouds on the horizon in the way the CofE was compromising biblical doctrine in the areas of human sexuality - starting with the acceptance of what it referred to as 'celibate homosexuality' among the clergy. This ambivalent secular approach to morality appears to have come back to bite them in the Smyth affair, but I haven't been following the minutiae of the case, so I don't wish to comment on who should, or shouldn't have done what, or whose heads should roll. During my period of serving in the (former) Bradford diocese, my church wisely followed all the CofE's safeguarding guidelines and had (to my knowledge) no issues. However, that was the problem - they were simply 'guidelines', 'recommendations'. At that time they weren't mandatory and certainly weren't enforced or monitored. Many churches naively thought they were optional, and this has now proved to be their downfall - they weren't accountable and left no 'paper trail' to refute any allegaions years, or decades later. During that time, I served on the planning committee of several large church outreach projects in the Bradford diocese and worked alongside Stephen Cottrell during his time as the Bishop's advisor in evangelism for the Wakefield diocese. I found him disagreeable and difficult to work with. The general impression of the team was that if you were not 'ordained' in the anglican system, he was patronising towards you, he would interrupt you and your views were not taken seriously. While I don't know the precise details of his handling of the Tudor affair, I wouldn't be surprised if his condescending and 'steamroller' attitude towards those he disagreed with contributed towards David Tudor being allowed to continue in his role. Only time will tell, but things aren't looking positive for the church of England and its senior leadership. They need to repent and return to being the church of God which it once was.
@doorntreader7624Ай бұрын
Thanks, Rev. Happy Christmas & God bless you, your family & your ministry.
@RagmananovАй бұрын
Thank you Dan. Merry Christmas.
@4evaavfcАй бұрын
It looks like the Lord is having a clean out. The Bishop of York should stand down. I hope the CofE gets an orthodox Bishop of Canterbury.
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
But the C of E abusers, like Smythe, come from the orthodox stable..
@Psalm125v1Ай бұрын
Thank you, Rev. Dan; I always look forward to your broadcasts. I’d have loved to have visited your parish on January 25th, but it’s the same day as HMD, and I can’t come as I’m involved in helping organise the Brentwood HMD.
@andybarton234Ай бұрын
He is in hiding hoping it will all blow over….. it won’t 🥴
@MH-zq4nlАй бұрын
My feeling is that the whole concept of safeguarding is to shift responsibility away from those who should be accountable. The truth is that cover ups will continue so longer as we have such a low calibre of godliness amongst the bishops.
@iannaylor972Ай бұрын
I have based an assembly on - "What does Santa believe about Jesus"
@johnhudghton3535Ай бұрын
Cotterall and Welby should be on the sticky ends of CDM's. Funny how it happens to ordinary clergy who mess up in safeguarding but not Bishops.
@andybarton234Ай бұрын
Well said 😮
@MeunderstandingthebibleАй бұрын
See committee. And no he don't get a vote. My wife is on the see committee it's a new team
@davidrobinson7950Ай бұрын
2 Thessalonians Ch. 2 "Then, indeed, the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will do away with by the spirit of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his presence. 9 But the lawless one’s presence is by the operation of Satan with every powerful work and lying signs and wonders 10 and every unrighteous deception for those who are perishing, as a retribution because they did not accept the love of the truth in order that they might be saved. 11 That is why God lets a deceptive influence mislead them so that they may come to believe the lie, 12 in order that they all may be judged because they did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness."
@Raymond-w5iАй бұрын
Did Welby resign or is he retiring on his birthday ?
@MrCliveadoАй бұрын
He was at candle light carols at pudsey Parish Church last night
@mr.angelosonassis3069Ай бұрын
Father Dan for Archbishop of Canterbury!
@dancalkins97Ай бұрын
What? Rev. Dan is a good man, why would you do that to him?
@BossVoltАй бұрын
@@dancalkins97 At this rate friend, the Church of England's leadership is so rotten that anybody remotely competent and Orthodox in the faith would be an overall improvement
@rosecochran8894Ай бұрын
If Rev Dan was for Christ he wouldn't call himself Dan but Daniel 😮
@kathrynvessey4659Ай бұрын
Just checking… is your meet-up on 17th or 25th January… I’m signed up for the 25th so I’m a bit confused… I can make 17th … but my ticket says 25th January 😂
@francespike9780Ай бұрын
I know it was first mentioned by Rev Dan as being on 25th January (a Saturday) and was surprised to hear 17th (which is a weekday - Friday) in this video because I would expect more people to be able to be there on a Saturday than a Friday.
@kathrynvessey4659Ай бұрын
@@francespike9780I think Rev Dan might have misspoken. The link for tickets still says 25th. Hopefully he will clarify. Are you hoping to go?
@francespike9780Ай бұрын
@@kathrynvessey4659 I couldn't check the link as I can't see it. Perhaps because I don't have a paid subscription as I think tickets were to be saved for those who do until nearer the time? Or I don't know what to look for.
@kathrynvessey4659Ай бұрын
@@francespike9780Truth to tell, I couldn’t find the link here… I went back to when I first applied 🧐
@Raymond-w5iАй бұрын
Sadly , I have left the C of E and now attend a Free Evangelical Church ✝️
@SuperFoxesdenАй бұрын
We've also left and gone to an Evangelical church.... sad state of affairs with CofE heirachy.. there's the safegarding issue, and there's not adhering to the Bible teaching and the 39 articles......... Been Anglican for 66 years and hubby for his 71 years.... Never did I ever dream we'd leave the CofE.
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
I think you may have posted this before. I was in an evangelical church. I discovered that ‘if the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed,’ meant that you were only REALLY free if you never questioned the party line. I am now an Anglican priest. I love my orthodox evangelical friends, but I love and serve God, very happily, within a liberal Anglican tradition.
@djpodestaАй бұрын
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693 Are you gloating Catherine? 😄🙏 And I thought that priests counselled the sheep, given your distain for Evangelical, ‘tow the line,’ misogyny. Why would you allow anybody to leave the Anglican Church for that? Christian empathy? Personally, we now find more comfort in getting together for reruns of the Vicar of Dibley these days. It is so much better than getting up and paying to participate in a puppet show on Sunday morning. The comedy is so much more honest. Meanwhile, our small prayer and study group has become so much more meaningful as God leads us to give His money to where the actual needy will benefit. Ousted ministers are such an asset. They can now serve God without the pc that their replacements embrace. I hope you are remembering certain other groups of the disenfranchised as you consider the training potential up young ministers. We cannot let the world leave us behind with regard to diversity hire. Blessings Catherine. 🙏
@rosecochran8894Ай бұрын
The Rev Dan is not Righteous to take the pulpit. Ive heard better men that is in Billinghay ❤
@stephenhogger3111Ай бұрын
He's being driven out by the evos who are dead scared he will get the top job.
@debbieshrubb1222Ай бұрын
So the Christian News is sensationalising a concern made from one person? Maybe we should try to understand all perspectives rather than rush to judgement.
@djpodestaАй бұрын
LOL… Who’s perspective?
@stephenhogger3111Ай бұрын
I thought you were leaving the church of england. Do please get on with it!
@andybray9791Ай бұрын
Stephen cottrell doesn’t just lie about Jesus god and Holy Spirit, he goes cottaging with lies.
@MrSASA51Ай бұрын
A few weeks ago you declared you were leaving the C of E….. why do you stay ? If you can’t be constructive keep quiet if you can be constructive stop posts like this
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
Gosh, well said. I’m an Anglican priest and despair at the self righteous, judgmental, endless carping and negativity. Problems, yes. Imperfect priests, yes, but there is masses of good still within the church. Stop trying to stir up ever more trouble…
@michaelgreen1515Ай бұрын
Parents eat Santas biscuits?
@RaeHemara-o3tАй бұрын
Gossip not a word of God no wonder I can't be believe in Christianity of which you are a servant
@philandnic1987Ай бұрын
Jesus is real, religion is the problem.
@stephenfarthing3819Ай бұрын
Rev Dan - I am a Church Chorister and this isn't the first time that I have come on defence of those singing hymns or carols in the general public arena - I have a keen respect for the Choral traditions and I CAN react fairly poorly to this nonsense of a School Choir singing in public. Especially over Christmas. I did so with a street singer in London. And in matter of fact, I was forced to agree with Jacob Rees Mogg on that! One of the rare times I would do so! Because I don't always see eye to eye with him. One of the rare things indeed. This situation was one of these. I also take the view that this Vicar should not have said anything about no Santa Clause.. I believe there WAS a similar individual called St Nicholas in parts of Germany and Holland in the NL - So I say to a limited extent - sounds like a load of cogswallop. In both ways. As a slight finisher to the point. Especially to my second one. I work in a cut price retail establishment and have done for 10 years. I have always been mindful of people and at this time of year, if I hear youngsters on the premises I ask them " Have you been well behaved for St Nicholas?" That, I believe is the best answer to give. May I encourage you Rev Dan ! To also pursue that question. If a Vicar is to say anything about this at all, at this time of year, then that's distinctly better! And one other thing, you can even say that St Francis of Assisi knows of the existence of the Christmas Saint! No surprise there, given the fact that St Francis is the patron saint of Children, Animals and Choristers. As a Chorister of 45 years I tend to uphold that! And say St Nicholas is known to St Francis! That works well as the explanation for Father Christmas.
@iancallard3561Ай бұрын
Cotterell won't go. He's too much of a choleric and corporate animal. Would to God that we had more godly men leading.
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
Judge not that you be not judged. How do you know what his prayer life is like? How would YOU deal with being an Archbishop in a big institution? And very few priests have a perfect disposition. Strangely, even Jesus had his choleric moments…
@1900trentАй бұрын
is this all you have to do….speculate on and on……better to spend time praying and just stop talking.
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
Well said. Speculating, criticising, judging….
@PhilipShepherdАй бұрын
Catherine, it looks as though you are both criticising and judging ...
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
@@PhilipShepherd yes, you have a point. However, I’m not making a regular, highly public (even, perhaps monetised) practice of it.
@ianstell614Ай бұрын
I don't agree that the Archbishop of York should stand down. He should be judged solely on any failing of his, proven in a fair process. He should not be judged by a mob reaction to the awfulness of abuse. This would be a serious injustice. Am I the only one who is concerned by CoE clergy showing so little commitment to their leaders and to fair, just process? I am an anglican and I am very concerned by how the two archbishops have been treated. Surely british justice is better than this?
@johnhudghton3535Ай бұрын
It isctwo tier justice. Lesser clergy arectreated in a much more exacting way than senior clergy. If he had been a mere Vicar he would be on a sticky end of a CDM
@andysmith4158Ай бұрын
Had Stephen Cottrell been a parish priest rather than the Archbishop of York, he would have had his Permission to Officiate removed. However, now that Justin Welby has resigned, there is no way of anyone removing him from his role, which is in itself shocking.
@catherinellewelyn-evans3693Ай бұрын
‘Trial by media’ is what is happening.
@stephenfarthing3819Ай бұрын
I tend to disagree with the point that he should stand down. This silence gets me concerned and it seems singularly unsettling. I certainly don't want the Archbishop of York to stand down. He was one of the pathfinder for safeguarding in the Church of England. I agree that there are victims of these matters - Safeguarding must improve! Hugely and Bishops should have the necessary authority to remove PTO's immediately. That provision needs to be upheld.
@stephenfarthing3819Ай бұрын
@marcokite Forced to disagree with you. I point out again! That he was one of the original ones supporting Safeguarding Measures! Rev Dan has pointed out that work very well at the Parish church level. Others of Gafcon have also pointed out similar things. I can't agree with you. I hold on to my own considered and original point.
@brianwood5607Ай бұрын
@@stephenfarthing3819 You are wasting your holding on. Cottell I'm sure has many things in his favour but leading on safeguarding he has put in place for other people to do does not excuse him from doing it himself.
@Hellish2050Ай бұрын
MI5 will be choosing the next Archbishop. (According to recent video by Gavin Ashenden) Only those willing to appease Islam need apply.
@davidmoorhouse8190Ай бұрын
Article in the guardian....today..The childrens society has rejected a donation..from Welby..Cottrell on 🪴 leave?
@clivedytor2069Ай бұрын
The C of E is reaping the harvest of its constant compromise.
@andysmith4158Ай бұрын
And the Chair of Trustees of The Children's Society is ... Bishop Libby Lane, the Bishop of Derby. You couldn't make this stuff up!