{"id":72363,"date":"2018-06-26T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72363"},"modified":"2018-06-26T18:53:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T22:53:56","slug":"gafcon-gafcon-comes-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72363","title":{"rendered":"(Gafcon) Gafcon comes of age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inevitably, the statement will resonate with different people and different provinces in different ways but five elements stand out-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the absolute priority of proclaiming Christ faithfully to the nations,<\/li>\n<li>the affirmation of the Primatial leadership of Gafcon,<\/li>\n<li>the creation of a Synodical Council,<\/li>\n<li>the establishment of permanent, Communion-wide networks,<\/li>\n<li>the recommendation of conditional participation in the Instruments of Communion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This can all be summed-up in one phrase from the Letter, \u201cAs the Gafcon movement matures\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a mature statement, born out of a mature process. The Letter shoulders responsibility for the future of the Communion. What began as a conference gave birth to a movement and has now come of age.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gafcon.org\/news\/gafcon-comes-of-age\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inevitably, the statement will resonate with different people and different provinces in different ways but five elements stand out- the absolute priority of proclaiming Christ faithfully to the nations, the affirmation of the Primatial leadership of Gafcon, the creation of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72363\">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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72363","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=72363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72364,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72363\/revisions\/72364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}