That five bishops would stay away because they can’t share communion with those who voted to consecrate VGR, I find perfectly understandable. I left TEC the day of that event, rather come under the Bishop of Virginia; if one believes in a hierarchical church, which I did, one must believe that heresy runs down hill, primarily by means of teaching. Apparantly the five African and South American bishops see heresy spreading also by lateral association. Anyway, the five feel they must continue to make a stand, and staying away from Lambeth is just another opportunity to do so, another obligation to the conscience and to the faithful they represent.
Hopefully all U.S. Bishops will now follow suite, and refuse to acknowledge their invitations when one of their number has been denied. Time for “progressives” to depart from Canterbury and leave it to the “reasserters.” All Bishops on all sides have succeeded in destroying what was once a beautiful communion by proclaiming their own theological interpretations as the only possible truth. How far we have come from Christ’s prayer “that they all may be one.” It seems to me that denying the unity of the Body of Christ is the Great Heresy.
That five bishops would stay away because they can’t share communion with those who voted to consecrate VGR, I find perfectly understandable. I left TEC the day of that event, rather come under the Bishop of Virginia; if one believes in a hierarchical church, which I did, one must believe that heresy runs down hill, primarily by means of teaching. Apparantly the five African and South American bishops see heresy spreading also by lateral association. Anyway, the five feel they must continue to make a stand, and staying away from Lambeth is just another opportunity to do so, another obligation to the conscience and to the faithful they represent.
“Lamebth!” Freudian slip by the elves??
Hopefully all U.S. Bishops will now follow suite, and refuse to acknowledge their invitations when one of their number has been denied. Time for “progressives” to depart from Canterbury and leave it to the “reasserters.” All Bishops on all sides have succeeded in destroying what was once a beautiful communion by proclaiming their own theological interpretations as the only possible truth. How far we have come from Christ’s prayer “that they all may be one.” It seems to me that denying the unity of the Body of Christ is the Great Heresy.
Go to the root causes of the problem in the American Church, and you will have the answer.