Mr Lyon then shared the preliminary plans for ACC-16. He stressed that there had been some thinking around how to ensure every participant, regardless of their background, to had a common understanding of what the Anglican Consultative Council meeting is and is for.<\/p>\n
This prompted a discussion among the Standing Committee about the future of the Instruments of Communion in relation to other Anglican Communion gatherings that might be more relational, conversational and perhaps missional in nature.<\/p>\n
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori mentioned that at a recent meeting between the Episcopal Church and several senior bishops from across Africa [read more], there had been \u201csignificant energy\u201d\u009d behind the idea of an Anglican \u201d\u02dcgathering\u2019 of some kind, above and beyond the Instruments of Communion.
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Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi said, \u201cThe Toronto Congress created the language of mutual responsibility and interdependence. Now there\u2019s a feeling that again we need that [another chance to meet in this kind of way]. A wider gathering of Christians\u201d\u201dAnglicans and Episcopalians, lay and ordained\u201d\u201dcoming together to see and discuss and share and build relationships.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Instruments of Communion, they have a 10-year schedule or three-year schedule. In the present world of instant communications, that\u2019s becoming a long time. What happens between those meetings? If communion is really communion then we want something new [over and above the Instruments].\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n