[TEC’s] goal, according to Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, \u201d\u02dcis part of [the denomination\u2019s] mission.\u2019 The House of Bishops also defined it last March as part of the \u201d\u02dcgospel\u2019 that the Episcopal Church is called to preach. Yet that goal and many other examples of jettisoning biblical, traditional Anglican faith have led thousands of orthodox Anglicans to leave the Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n
And it is precisely those deviations from orthodox faith and practice that put the Episcopal Church outside of the mainstream of not just the Anglican Communion, but the larger body of Christ. Make no mistake: the Episcopal Church\u2019s actions dangerously compromise the holiness of the church and its members. The Anglican Communion primates clearly recognize that fact. Will the Episcopal Church put the good of the worldwide church ahead of its own desires? Or will it remain insistent, as its Executive Council said in June, that it can only be what it is? The clock is running out.<\/p>\n