U.S. Anglicans are now split, and a West Michigan pastor says he’s excited about joining dissidents in the province that formed last week.
“Is it a divisive move? It might be, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing,” said the Rev. Andrew Gross, pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in South Haven. “When our core proclamation is at stake, division is not necessarily bad.”
Holy Trinity is now part of the new Anglican Church in North America, a breakaway from the Episcopal Church that is the worldwide Anglican Communion’s American branch.
Gross said the division is not so much over the much-talked-about issues of sexuality — although fault lines formed with the ordination of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson in 2004 — but over belief in who Jesus was.