It’s been three years since the Anglican Church of Nigeria “crossed borders” into the United States to establish a new home for conservatives who were unhappy with the liberal direction of the U.S. Episcopal Church.
And if the Nigerians didn’t step in, the global Anglican family would have lost a lot of people, said the new primate of the Church of Nigeria.
“We came because we love the Anglican church and we do not want the Anglican church to split,” Archbishop Nicholas Okoh told The Christian Post in an interview Tuesday. “That would’ve been the case if we didn’t come in.”
Though the Nigerian church, which is the largest regional body in the Anglican Communion with more than 18 million members, came to the U.S. with compassion, it was recently disciplined for violating a moratorium on cross-border intervention.
“…recently disciplined for violating a moratorium on cross-border intervention.”
That’s ironic. What about how TEC has brought about cross border intervention in Fort Worth and other US dioceses?
Moratorium? What about the SSB moratorium? It looks like all moratoria are being ignored.
Regards, The Anglican Donatist
In earlier documents approved by the primates, cessation of mission efforts was always conditioned on certain actions, including certain actions of the ABC. None of those conditions precedent were ever met.
Nevertheless – Nigeria is punished. Make no mistake, this is clearly not ‘communion’ discipline, but unilateral animosity at best.
I suppose it is consistent in one ironic way. In the communion, there are some who reject portions of the Bible they dislike, to accommodate their favored behaviors. In communion leadership, there are some who extract portions of accepted statements while rejecting (or frustrating) other portions, in pursuit of their will over the conciliar.
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