Yet, according to some, avoiding taking a stand doesn’t mean nothing will happen.
Reverend Peter Frank, spokesman for Anglican Communion Network, an evangelical renewal movement, said that by design, the Lambeth Conference was structured to forestall any decision-making.
“It was depressing for those who hoped the Anglican Communion would return to mainstream Christianity,” said Frank.
Further, because of the moratorium on decisions concerning ordination of gays and same-sex unions, Frank foresees a widening in the present divisions between liberal and conservative factions.
“Nether side will wait for another 10 years to act,” said Frank. “The moratorium will empower the innovative to be freer to act because they know that nothing on the radar will happen to them. However, it (the lack of any official decisions) will empower the defenders of the faith to be realistic, not count on the leadership, and organize within the structure. And they are in the majority.”
It would be impossible for the issue of same-sex sex and so-called unions to be DECIDED at Lambeth, since that matter has already been decided for ALL ETERNITY from the beginning in God’s created design and reiterated throughout the Scriptures via the words ofJesus Christ, his disciples and St. Paul.
It was NOT left ‘undecided’. It was decided to mouth empty words and not back them up with action.
Most definitely a decision; most definitely the wrong decision for an organization calling itself Christian!
Anyway, each bishop and archbishop will go home and by their actions and words, will DECIDE whether or not they will conform to the mind of Christ and the Word of God. They will, in fact, determine the validity of their sees.