..peace with one another cannot be separated from peace with God, and peace with God cannot be separated from faithfulness to the biblical and apostolic gospel of God. I therefore warmly commend the Global South Chairman, Bishop Mouneer Anis, for his bold warning about the \u201d\u02dcideological slavery\u2019 which some Western Churches seek to impose on the Global South by using their money and influence to promote teachings which overturn the bible and offer a false gospel.<\/p>\n
Many of us were therefore deeply disturbed that the Presiding Bishop of the American Episcopal Church (TEC), Michael Curry, was a prominent member of the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s delegation in Rome, despite the fact that the Canterbury meeting of Primates in January this year had resolved that, among other things, TEC should not be involved in representing the Anglican Communion in ecumenical or interfaith relations.<\/p>\n
This incident is just the most recent of many failures which the Cairo Communiqu\u00c3\u00a9<\/a> describes as \u201d\u02dcthe inability of the existing Communion instruments to discern truth and error and take binding ecclesiastical action\u2019. We need alternatives…
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\nIt is increasingly clear that the Church of England is becoming the place where pressure for compromise has become most intense and I am encouraged that 88 evangelical Anglicans leaders from varied backgrounds have come together this month to sign an open letter<\/a> to the English House of Bishops calling on them \u201d\u02dcnot to depart from the apostolic inheritance with which they have been entrusted\u2019. Please join with me in praying for these leaders in the Church of England, the Mother Church of our Communion, asking for them to have courage and unity at this critical time.<\/p>\n