Graham Kings, Fulcrum: Patience and urgency came together in the substance and context of the Lambeth Conference. The Windsor Process and the Anglican Covenant, the GAFCON shadow conference in Jerusalem, and the three Presidential Addresses by the Archbishop of Canterbury, including the announcement of the Pastoral Forum, were all closely related. Read the rest here
David Anderson, American Anglican Council: May I submit, from my own position far down the ecclesial food chain, that there is no longer theological space to be an orthodox bishop of the church and privately believe that which is contrary to what the Church teaches on core doctrine and moral discipline. To do so becomes, in the most benign situation, a form of mental illness where the individual experiences a bifurcation of mind, and in more extreme form, a spiritual illness representing a foot in each Kingdom. This time in the life of the Christian and Anglican Church calls for a clear mind aligned with and fully embracing the core teachings of the Christian faith, reformed and catholic. Full Stop. Read the rest here
Paul Richardson, Religious Intelligence: Even if the Communion overcomes the immediate causes of division it will be important to address the underlying factors. Part of the problem is that, while bright young Catholic students, whether they be Thomists, liberation theologians, or Augustinians, all flock to Rome to study, Anglicans study in different parts of the Communion and, for the most part, read different texts. Read the rest here.
25 August 2008 at 8:57 pm
“Bishops from The Episcopal Church USA who wanted to press ahead with their ecclesial sexual inclusion project and ignore the Windsor Process and the Anglican Covenant …” (Graham Kings).
CoE, TEC, Canterbury, Wales, New Zealand, Etc, have for years behind radar have accepted( perveted sexual inclusion) their man-made gospel of sin(homosexuality) sitting with the saint in God’s house of Worship-
“First, according to most published estimates, between 25% and 50% of priests are homosexual.” (Trayce Hansen, PhD)
Thus, what has been the final outcome from accepting sin, the new gospel, within the Church-?
“…fact that only about 3% to 5% of the general population is homosexual. Homosexuals, therefore, disproportionately fill the ranks of the priesthood. Second, approximately 85% to 95% of the known sexual abuse perpetrated by priests was against teenage boys. Since one would statistically predict only 25% to 50% of the priest molestation cases to be homosexual—based on their percentages in the total priest population—one is struck by the fact that these homosexual priests are molesting in much higher percentages than one would expect, and thus in much higher percentages than their heterosexual priest counterparts.” (Trayce Hansen, PhD).
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/08/25/journalists-and-the-pedophile-smokescreen/
God warned every brother about accepting the wicked, the homosexual, the unclean in the Church with the Saints, but you continue to ignore God:
2 Thessalonians 3: 6: Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
2 Thessalonians 3: 14: And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15: Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
1 Peter 4:17-For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God [Church]: and if it first begin at us [Church], what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
2 Corinthians 6:17-Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18: And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty… . [Unclean thing (wicked person, sinner, false teacher or preacher of doctrine, etc.)]
Romans 16:17-Now I beseech you brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
What awaits those that accept the homosexual, the wicked in the Church?
2 Thessalonians 1:8-I flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.