{"id":120457,"date":"2023-04-21T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120457"},"modified":"2023-04-21T18:17:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:17:51","slug":"aac-phil-ashey-an-historic-moment-for-the-anglican-communion-key-takeaways-from-the-gafcon-iv-kigali-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120457","title":{"rendered":"(AAC) Phil Ashey–An Historic Moment For The Anglican Communion: Key Takeaways From The Gafcon IV Kigali Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

2.\u00a0IT\u2019S ALL ABOUT THE BIBLE; IT\u2019S CLARITY, AUTHORITY AND SUFFICIENCY GIVE US CONFIDENCE IN WHAT WE BELIEVE AS ANGLICANS.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This is clear from the section on \u201cThe Authority of God\u2019s word\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe current divisions in the Anglican Communion have been caused by radical departures from the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some within the Communion have been taken captive by hollow and deceptive philosophies of this world (Colossians 2:8). Such a failure to hear and heed God\u2019s Word undermines the mission of the church as a whole.<\/p>\n

The Bible is God\u2019s Word written, breathed out by God as it was written by his faithful messengers (2 Timothy 3:16).\u00a0It carries God\u2019s own authority, is its own interpreter, and it does not need to be supplemented, nor can it ever be overturned by human wisdom.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

God\u2019s good Word is the rule of our lives as disciples of Jesus and\u00a0is the final authority in the church.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(Emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Here we see the Kigali Statement echoing, in different words, the same assertion as the Global South Section 1.6 on the sufficiency of God\u2019s Word written in its plain and canonical sense, and the rejection of any \u201chermeneutics of skepticism,\u201d which Anglican revisionists have brought to the text of scripture.\u00a0 The Kigali Statement goes on to say of the Bible:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt grounds, energises and directs our mission in the world. The fellowship we enjoy with our risen and ascended Lord is nourished as we trust God\u2019s Word, obey it and encourage each other to allow it to shape each area of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gafcon continues to stand for the Bible as the very foundation upon which Anglicans have confidence to believe what we believe, to have fellowship with Jesus himself, and to find \u201cenergy and direction\u201d for all we do! Therefore, the crisis in the Anglican Communion is not about \u201cdifferences of opinion\u201d or \u201csecondary matters\u201d of human sexuality.\u00a0 The crisis is about the very basis upon which the Church is constituted, especially when the plain reading of the text is ignored:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fellowship is broken when we turn aside from God\u2019s Word or\u00a0attempt to reinterpret it in any way that overturns the plain reading of the text in its canonical context and so deny its truthfulness, clarity, sufficiency, and thereby its authority<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Jerusalem Declaration #2).\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, what is\u00a0ultimately<\/u><\/em>\u00a0at stake here is what we have proclaimed for the last 25 years: the truthfulness, clarity, sufficiency, and authority of the Bible.\u00a0 For this reason, it is impossible to embrace \u201cpluriform truth\u201d as the Archbishop of Canterbury did\u00a0at the recent Lambeth Conference 2022<\/a>. For this reason, GAFCON rejects the Canterbury led communion narrative of \u201cwalking together in good disagreement\u201d as the basis for fellowship, much less Communion:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reject the claim that two contradictory positions can both be valid in matters affecting salvation.\u00a0 We cannot \u2018walk together\u2019 in good disagreement with those who have deliberately chosen to walk away from the \u2018faith once for all delivered to the saints\u2019 (Jude 3).\u00a0 The people of God \u2018walk in his ways\u2019, \u2018walk in the truth\u2019, and \u2018walk in the light\u2019, all of which require that we do not walk in Christian fellowship with those in darkness (Deuteronomy 8:6; 2 John 4; 1 John 1:7).\u201d<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Canon Phil takes an in-depth walk through of 8 major take-aways from the @gafconference<\/a> Kigali Commitment released today. https:\/\/t.co\/BzhWk6VJnh<\/a><\/p>\n

— American Anglican (@AnglicanCouncil) April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n