While conservatives see themselves as remaining faithful to Anglican tradition and Scripture, they see The Episcopal Church veering further away from the rest of the worldwide communion.
“The Episcopal Church is heading in a direction that’s incompatible with mainstream Anglican convictions and mainstream Christian faith,” Minns told reporters Friday.
This month, Episcopal leaders approved two resolutions that open the ordination process to all baptized members, including practicing homosexuals, and call for the development of liturgical resources for the blessing of same-sex unions.
Those actions, Minns said, takes them “further down the road of apostasy.”
“What comes next is hard to predict but one thing is sure ”“ the leadership of The Episcopal Church has made it very clear that there is no turning back, their ears are closed and their hearts are hardened,” the CANA bishop said in his address Friday at the annual council.
“What comes next is hard to predict but one thing is sure – the leadership of The Episcopal Church has made it very clear that there is no turning back, their ears are closed and their hearts are hardened,”
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Sadly true. It is difficult for me to look at the revisionists running ECUSA and to see them as ordained clergy.
Using the adage “If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck,” then, it is more like seeing ECUSA as the object of a ‘hostile corporate take over’ and the revisionist clergy and their revisionist supporters among the laity as the hostile ‘new team’ that has come to ‘run’ ECUSA.
Using the adage “If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck,”
I am no great theologian or philosopher, but I can see that two incompatible and opposite statements can in no way be synthesized into one statement that either contains both “truths” or is agreeable to both sides.
Either Jesus is Lord of All or Jesus is not Lord at all (seems I heard that many years ago.)
And we either come to faith in Christ (individually!) or we don’t. I’m too simple to believe anything else.
Bishop Minns is right.