Dodgy bishops: can evangelicals obey?

This month I am looking at the apparently controversial idea that ministers in the Church of England should submit to their bishops.

Ministers in the Church of England have to take an oath of obedience to a bishop. It’s true. And this has been seen recently – even by some non-Anglican commentators in this very paper! — as such an obviously bad thing that all Anglican Evangelicals should now immediately become ex-Anglican Evangelicals. But is that really necessary?

Is it impossible to be faithful to Jesus while also submitting to a bishop? Some of them are dodgy, after all, whether in doctrine or lifestyle or discipline. And we can’t be comfortable with that. I’m certainly not.