There were 1,148 lay and clergy participants – including 291 bishops – from among many faithful Anglican Christians who still look at the Bible as the Word of God, not just a ‘primary source’, as some are led to believe by liberal revisionist theology. Gafcon believes that Anglicanism has a bright future for as long as we are obedient to the Lord’s Great Commission “to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching and training them to observe what the Lord commands.”(Matt 28:16-20; Eph.2:20). Gafcon is a movement in the Spirit and a fellowship of confessing Anglicans. Please read the statement on the Global Anglican Future. There is nothing divisive about it. The Global South and the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa are affiliated to it. Pray that the unity of the church be preserved. “Can the two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (Amos 3:3). Continue to pray for Lambeth so that we may have common mind in obedience to God’s written Holy Word in all our deliberations. Lambeth is not only about the issue of homosexuality, it is also about how the poor are held ransom as the rich dictate terms and power, in order to continue to subdue the colonized with shackles of hunger, want and misery. It is my wish to remind you that what the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies. May God’s kingdom come, and his will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
It is almost impossible to believe that the Archbishop of Canterbury would trade such people as this for those following the “newest thing”.
Lord have mercy
Gloria in SC
Hey, where were the breathless headlines? “South African Bishop breaks ranks with liberal province, attends GAFCON”????? I mean, the presence of a Nigerian Bishop in the British Isles got headlines about how Akinola and his eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil regime were losing control blah blah blah.
Bishop Bethlehem and I were in the same small group at GAFCON. He was a patient, gracious and wise leader. Not only had I spoken at a mission in Port Elisabeth a few years ago, but it turned out that the good bishop had spent four years in the 1980s looking after a congregation in Glasgow. These little things in common indicated the Holy Spirit bringing people together.