Bishop Lawrence criticized the existing Instruments of Communion of being too slow to adapt. “I witnessed a new birth last month [at GAFCON],” Bishop Lawrence said. “The Global South has come to its place of maturity. I don’t know how the two structures will work together in the future. Those who adapt the quickest will be the ones who win the day.”
Bishop Zavala challenged Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to state clearly to the rest of the Communion the intentions of The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops.
“I don’t want to put words in her mouth,” he said. Bishop Zavala said the current crisis is rooted in The Episcopal Church’s decision to disregard Resolution 1.10 from the 1998 Lambeth Conference and consecrate a partnered homosexual person as Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire.
“If there is no moratorium then the Communion will split,’ he said.
“Minutes after the conclusion of the bishops’ media briefing, the final reflections document was released. The language on the moratorium remains unchanged from the fourth draft which stated there was “widespread support for moratoria across the Communion,†but did not come to any decision.”
I think that about says it all. Now, all eyes will be on GAFCON, and I’m fairly certain that they WILL come to a decision.
Last night an ECUSA clergy participated in a SSB in Massachusetts. Marc Andrus on this week’s PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly said that there will be no moratorium on SSBs in the Diocese of California. Furthermore, he siad that he was upfront with the remaining AC Bishops about this. There is no doubt in my mind that there will be a split.
I don’t think so, #2. I think there is going to be a struggle for control of the Communion, one which will be won by GAFCON.
#3, I surely hope that you are right.
All TEC has is money, nothing else. The rest of the Western Church is similarly demoralized, having been poisoned by a steady diet of post-modern claptrap. Probably half of TEC will pass away in the next 20 years. Who will replace these people? Homosexuals? Leftists whose scorn for religion exceeds their loathing of the free market? Cowed liberals who are so guilt-ridden over the litany of sins poured fourth by the MSM that they consider it a crime to have children?
The GS will assume control of the Communion because they will be there in the future, because they will have strong faith and they will have a moral claim to it given they will be 95%+ of the Communion. Once disestablishment comes, and I believe it will, the GS assumption of Canterbury will be a matter of time, and not much of it. Once that happens, TEC will be flushed from the body for good.
At last, an honest response that sees past the illusion.
God bless you Bishop Lawrence.
May the re-alignment proceed full speed ahead.