Yesterday as I read the Declaration of Independence, after following the Anglican crisis for five years, I was struck with the similarities of the situation in the Anglican Communion.
Moreover, the more I read – [the growing list of documented heresies at Stand Firm, the Archbishop of Armagh’s speech on July 4, the plans for a party in Westminster Abbey to further celebrate the gay mock-wedding in London, the TEC House of Bishop’s plans to throw a reception for ‘bishop Robinson’ during Lambeth, the biography of Bishop James Pike, the Bennison trial, the two decades waiting for the intruments of unity to function, the accelerated sexual agendas of the Episcopalians and Canadian and British Anglican churches] – the more I see how belated and necessary is the GAFCON movement repentance, revolution and reform of the Anglican Communion from the top down for this has been a sick institution for a very long time.
Scripture teaches the Church has these characteristics and functions:
1. To hold and teach pure and sound doctrine.
2. To administer the Sacraments
3. To rightly administer discipline.
4. To fulfill the Great Commission, teach, preach the Gospel,
5. To believe and live His Word to show the world the Holiness of Love, Truth and Life.
6. And the most important – To lift up and reveal Jesus Christ, to glorify the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
Sadly, the decadent Western Anglican churches do not resemble this, but are more like old boys clubs or political action groups dressed in religious veneer.
The GAFCON Statement and the Jerusalem Declaration are belated by 30-70 years, maybe more.
May God save the Anglican church and help to return to Him whole-heartedly, to actually ‘perfectly love Him, worthily magnify His holy name, with unity, constancy and peace, with gladness and singleness of heart.’
And if it is not possible for those who desire to truly follow the Holy Faith entrusted to the Apostles to remain yoked with heretics, apostates, rebels and unbelievers in this most decadent church in human history, I pray the sincere followers of Jesus Christ will have the courage to do what is necessary to revive this beautiful part of Christ’s body.
May they have the courage of the fathers of our country to say:
” it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station ….. a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and … ( of course, the duty of the Church, to obey the Word of God and to fulfill the purposes of God, is the goal of the church that is thwarted when yoked under or to decadent apostate leadership.)
Yesterday as I read the Declaration of Independence, after following the Anglican crisis for five years, I was struck with the similarities of the situation in the Anglican Communion.
Moreover, the more I read – [the growing list of documented heresies at Stand Firm, the Archbishop of Armagh’s speech on July 4, the plans for a party in Westminster Abbey to further celebrate the gay mock-wedding in London, the TEC House of Bishop’s plans to throw a reception for ‘bishop Robinson’ during Lambeth, the biography of Bishop James Pike, the Bennison trial, the two decades waiting for the intruments of unity to function, the accelerated sexual agendas of the Episcopalians and Canadian and British Anglican churches] – the more I see how belated and necessary is the GAFCON movement repentance, revolution and reform of the Anglican Communion from the top down for this has been a sick institution for a very long time.
Scripture teaches the Church has these characteristics and functions:
1. To hold and teach pure and sound doctrine.
2. To administer the Sacraments
3. To rightly administer discipline.
4. To fulfill the Great Commission, teach, preach the Gospel,
5. To believe and live His Word to show the world the Holiness of Love, Truth and Life.
6. And the most important – To lift up and reveal Jesus Christ, to glorify the Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
Sadly, the decadent Western Anglican churches do not resemble this, but are more like old boys clubs or political action groups dressed in religious veneer.
The GAFCON Statement and the Jerusalem Declaration are belated by 30-70 years, maybe more.
May God save the Anglican church and help to return to Him whole-heartedly, to actually ‘perfectly love Him, worthily magnify His holy name, with unity, constancy and peace, with gladness and singleness of heart.’
And if it is not possible for those who desire to truly follow the Holy Faith entrusted to the Apostles to remain yoked with heretics, apostates, rebels and unbelievers in this most decadent church in human history, I pray the sincere followers of Jesus Christ will have the courage to do what is necessary to revive this beautiful part of Christ’s body.
May they have the courage of the fathers of our country to say:
” it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station ….. a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and … ( of course, the duty of the Church, to obey the Word of God and to fulfill the purposes of God, is the goal of the church that is thwarted when yoked under or to decadent apostate leadership.)