Lambeth Conference 2022 Toolkit

Below you will find resources to help you learn about Lambeth Conference and explore what it means in your context and for the Anglican Communion to be responsive to the needs of a 21st-century world.

ACCESS THE LAMBETH TOOLKIT

You can download the toolkit as a single pdf (button below) or as individual sessions.


Download the Lambeth Toolkit


Download Explore Lambeth
Includes links, videos and resources to frame the themes of the conference as well as some of the basic information about Lambeth’s role as one of the instruments of unity within the Anglican Communion.

Download Bible Study: 1 Peter
Based on the Bible study that the bishops participated in at Lambeth, which laid the foundation for the Lambeth Conference. You will find links to the study material and the Bible expositions by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Download Diving Deeper: Learning about the Calls
Provides resources around select calls, including the calls themselves, plenary sessions and reading material to go deeper in your faith and missions.

CLERGY CONFERENCE VIDEOS AND STUDY GUIDES


In section 4.2 of the Discipleship call, it reads: “We call on all those who lead churches to enable our gatherings for worship, alongside small groups, to be the place where we intentionally learn these things – gatherings where we are formed and transformed in our hearts, minds, and spirits for Christ’s liberating and whole-of-life discipleship.”

  1. Share where and when you have experienced gatherings when you were formed and transformed in your heart, mind and spirit for Christ’s liberating and whole-of-life discipleship. Examples include EfM, Christian Essentials, Sacred Ground, Bible studies, worship and confirmation preparation.
  2. Where do you see other opportunities for expanding and deepening those offerings and experiences?
  3. What do you need in order to do the work of building intentional discipleship and discipleship-making?




In section 3.2 of the Environmental and Sustainable Development call, we are reminded that transformation is needed for sustained change: “Humanity needs a spiritual and cultural transformation. We must see the world differently: repenting of and rejecting an extractive world view, which regards the earth and all nature as something to be exploited, and embracing a relational worldview, espoused especially by indigenous peoples, which sees the profound interdependence of all creation.”

  1. Share a time when you experienced an epiphany concerning the care of creation, either as a moment of joy or one of pain.
  2. What opportunities do you see in teaching, preaching and learning that engage creation care as a spiritual crisis, not just a physical one?


Section 4.5 says this: “Inspired by many Anglican churches’ work in truth-telling, reckoning and racial healing, we invite each Province to an exercise of self-examination and reflection, listening respectfully to the experiences of those who have historically been, and continue to be, marginalized in their contexts and in their church. And we call upon each Instrument of unity in the Anglican Communion to a similar self-examining, listening exercise.”
  • Share a time when you have listened to those who have been marginalized in their contexts and in their church.
  • Where do you see the opportunity for our differences to challenge and deepen our experience of God in the other?
    • In the introduction of the call we read, “God’s reconciling mission is central to the ministry of the Church today. We live with differences, and it is difficult and demanding. In order for God’s reconciliation to be fully realized there needs to be both justice and accountability. Let us practice the habits of being curious, being present, and reimagining.” (3.2)
  • What does practice the habits of being curious, being present and reimagining mean in your ministry context?



    • READ THE LAMBETH CALLS

    Lambeth Call: Discipleship

    Lambeth Call: Creation Care

    Lambeth Call: Reconciliation

    We hope that these resources provide you with tools to discern God’s vision of what it means to be Christ’s church in the world witnessing and bringing the Good News of Christ.

    Questions? Contact Jenny Beaumont, missioner for adult and lifelong formation at the Diocese of North Carolina.