{"id":124626,"date":"2023-11-17T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124626"},"modified":"2023-11-18T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T15:02:14","slug":"the-gsfa-statement-following-the-church-of-englands-general-synod-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124626","title":{"rendered":"The GSFA Statement Following the Church of England&#8217;s General Synod Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegsfa.org\/news\/gsfa-statement-following-the-church-of-englands-general-synod-resolution-nov-13-16-2023\">there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are saddened to know that the General Synod of the Church of England has passed a resolution to bless same sex unions despite almost 50% of the Synod opposing the bishops&#8217; proposal. This disastrous decision creates the same serious consequences of differentiation and division as in other provinces and further fractures our beloved Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), I once again affirm the GSFA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegsfa.org\/news\/ash-wednesday-statement-of-gsfa-primates-on-the-church-of-englands-decision-regarding-the-blessing-of-same-sex-unions\"><strong>Ash Wednesday Statement<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>which we made on Feb 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0this year (2023). We wholeheartedly support the faithful bishops, clergy and laity within the Church of England and assure them of our continuing prayers and pastoral commitment as a global body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026\u2026. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.\u201d Revelation 2:10<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Archbishop Justin Badi Arama who was enthroned as Archbishop of South Sudan this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>We pray that God will use him to uphold the authority of scripture and the true gospel of Jesus Christ in South Sudan and beyond. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hxEWNPx93O\">pic.twitter.com\/hxEWNPx93O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GAFCON (@gafconference) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gafconference\/status\/989080340454150146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From there: We are saddened to know that the General Synod of the Church of England has passed a resolution to bless same sex unions despite almost 50% of the Synod opposing the bishops&#8217; proposal. This disastrous decision creates the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124626\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576,175,389,635,199,168,78,177,108,514,112,79,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-same-sex-blessings","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124651,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124626\/revisions\/124651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}