GAFCON 2008 declared it was \u201d\u02dcnot just a moment in time but a movement of the spirit\u2019. Now, at a conference in London, 200 Anglican leaders committed to mission and mutual support.<\/p>\n
The Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem established a Primates Council representing the majority of the world\u2019s Anglicans and set up a global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans as a movement within the Communion.
The leaders met at St Mark\u2019s Battersea Rise in London for five days of prayer, planning and plenary sessions. Seminars ranged over key topics such as evangelism, family, economic empowerment, the Gospel, church and spiritual leadership under pressure.<\/p>\n
Opening the event, GAFCON\/ FCA Chairman Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya, told the delegates they were called to \u201ca great prophetic purpose at this critical point in the life of our communion.\u201d\u009d The Archbishop outlined the extent of unbiblical teaching in the communion and declared \u201cThe heart of the crisis we face is not only institutional, but spiritual.\u201d\u009d
\n\u201cAfter some 450 years it is becoming clear that what some have called the \u201d\u02dcAnglican experiment\u2019 is not ending in failure, but is on the verge of a new and truly global future in which the original vision of the Reformers can be realized as never before\u201d\u009d the Archbishop said.<\/p>\n
In a plenary address, Bishop Michael Nazir?Ali concluded that the Anglican \u201cInstruments of Unity\u201d\u009d have failed dramatically and that the FCA is called to model an alternative way for the churches of the Anglican Communion to gather and relate to one another in such a way as to carry out the Great Commission in the coming decades.<\/p>\n
In their final conference \u201d\u02dcCommitment\u2019, the leaders resolved to work together in an ever?strengthening partnership, to stand by each other and to engage in a battle of ideas on behalf of the Biblical Gospel.<\/p>\n
The next Global Anglican Future Conference was also announced. The event, with invitees including clergy and lay people, as well as bishops, is scheduled for May 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne delegate came up to me and said \u201d\u02dcNow I know that I am not alone\u2019. Though they are the majority, the orthodox often feel isolated.\u201d\u009d said FCA general secretary Archbishop Peter Jensen. \u201cThere are people everywhere who believe the same gospel, preach the same thing and stand for the same truths. That is the dynamic of this conference. People who felt powerless have now been given confidence.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GAFCON 2008 declared it was \u201d\u02dcnot just a moment in time but a movement of the spirit\u2019. Now, at a conference in London, 200 Anglican leaders committed to mission and mutual support. The Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem established…<\/span><\/p>\n