{"id":56275,"date":"2016-11-08T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/peter_jensen-the_heart_of_gafcon\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:00:28","slug":"peter_jensen-the_heart_of_gafcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56275","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jensen&#8211;The heart of GAFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not in any way suggesting that bishops alone matter. From its inception, unlike the Lambeth Conference, GAFCON has deliberately included clergy and laity, men and women in its ranks. It is only to say that there has developed a unique episcopal role which can be used by God to create, guard and sustain communion.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to the heart of GAFCON and two experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The first was at a GAFCON meeting in London in 2012, where I asked a Nigerian bishop how he was enjoying the conference. \u201d\u02dcI am enjoying it,\u2019 he said, \u201d\u02dcfor now we know we are not alone.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And the second was at GAFCON 2013 in Nairobi. As I saw and heard from and interacted with the vast crowd of Anglicans from so many countries, I could not help exclaiming, \u201d\u02dcthis is the Anglican Communion having communion!\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gafcon.org\/blog\/the-heart-of-gafcon\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not in any way suggesting that bishops alone matter. From its inception, unlike the Lambeth Conference, GAFCON has deliberately included clergy and laity, men and women in its ranks. It is only to say that there has developed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56275\">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":[36,395,74,78,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56275","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=56275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}