What stands out in the statement? Five initial impressions of what will be important.
1. A strong commitment to stay in and affirm the Anglican Communion, despite all.
2. The creation of a fellowship of Confessing Anglicans within the Communion.
3. The issuing of the Jerusalem Declaration as the basis for such a fellowship.
4. A Council of Primates to oversee the movement.
5. A new Province in the USA recognised by the Council of Primates, which means that the power of the Archbishop of Canterbury alone to say who is in and who is out is to be shared.
GAFCon will help put things in perspective for all concerned about what the majority of the Anglican Communion ‘believes in’ and what a ‘truly Anglican’ parish confesses as its faith.
The GAFCon statement clearly provides a comparative basis for evaluating ECUSA and the Anglican Church in Canada.
MY evaluation reveals the revisionist leadership of those churches to be practicing a ‘New Agey’ kind of political activism that is detaching itself from Chrisitianity and rapidly speeding away from “the Faith once given.”
Be part of GAFCon and remain a confessing member of the Anglican Communion.
Stay with ECUSA or the Canadian Anglican Church and share their ultra-progressive views of ‘heaven on Earth’ OR be a confessing member of GAFCon within the Anglican Communion and seek Christ’s Salvation through adherence to “the Faith once given.”
Its really an OR situation since the revisionist agenda is so opposed to Scripture and tradition.
Yes…efforts to “immanentize the eschaton” are doomed to failure…
Exactly. Those five bullet points are better synopsis than 99% of the new stories (with emphasis on the “story” aspect).
I am grateful for this story. There seems to be a fair amount of spin, angst, and interpretation at work and, like robroy, I think the 5 bullet points are an excellent and concise summary.
I have found most of the news stories to be completely worthless or else sheer spin. I am not convinced any of the mainstream news agencies actually even read the Jerusalem Declaration, its all just hyperbole or hearsay. Even people who have read what was coming out of GAFCON, I am fairly certain they read into it what they wanted to believe, everything from Schism to Hope to everything in between. I am waiting for the spin to subside before I render judgment.
No. 1 – You really mean a “truly Protestant” parish, don’t you?