From Christian Today:<\/p>\n
The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the Most Rev Alan Harper, has spoken out on the \u201csin\u201d\u009d of division plaguing what he calls the \u201ctortured\u201d\u009d Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n
Speaking in his address on the Feast Day of St Mary Magdalene, he said he had come to believe that \u201cdivision is a greater sin even than heresy\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n
He appealed to fellow Anglicans to remember Paul\u2019s call for patient forbearance in his letter to the Ephesians, warning that disunity and \u201copen rupture\u201d\u009d were a \u201csign that the full stature of Christ remains absent from the Body\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Drexel Gomez warned the General Synod of the Church of England earlier in the month that, \u201cUnless we can make a fresh statement clearly and basically of what holds us together we are destined to grow apart\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Harper referred to his comments by adding that \u201ca spirit of arrogance on both sides is causing people of genuine faith and undoubted love for the Lord Jesus to bypass the requirement for patience and for making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n