Star-Telegram: New Anglican alignment hears from famed pastor at Bedford gathering

Love God and love people, the Rev. Rick Warren told founders of the new Anglican Church in North America on Tuesday as he advised them not to focus on property disputes caused by the exodus from their mother churches.

“You may lose the steeple, but you won’t lose the people,” Warren said to long applause from about 1,000 packed into a tent outside St. Vincent’s Cathedral. “Christ did not die for property.”

Anglicans from across the world are at the conference, where church members upset over the ordination of gays and other issues formed the new Anglican church. They had split from the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and the Anglican Church of Canada.

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