The Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell, made a courageous intervention in a sermon at the consecration of three new bishops at St Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday. Bishop Cottrell had this to say: ‘Good Lord, deliver us from successful bishops, from too-well-prepared or even too-well-organised bishops, from ready answer in the back pocket and PowerPoint-strategy self-sufficient, all-efficient bishops. The first job of a bishop is to be a teacher and evangelist: not a MD of CofE plc, or a safe pair of managerial hands just emerged slick and shiny from the talent pool - not even as a graduate of the latest whizzy business school offer of better-organised salvation; a storyteller, poet, theologian - a gospel person, with the good news of Christ on our lips and in our hearts, and this good news translated into the languages of the smorgasbord of cultures in which we serve.’