{"id":72753,"date":"2018-07-10T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72753"},"modified":"2018-07-10T07:04:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T11:04:55","slug":"stephen-noll-replies-to-fulcrums-response-to-gafcon-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72753","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Noll replies to Fulcrum&#8217;s response to Gafcon 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Why discourage Bishops from attending the Lambeth Conference 2020, and others from meetings of the Instruments of Communion?&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Reply<\/strong>: Oh, please. Gene Robinson was not invited in 2008 only because he was a public relations disaster waiting to happen. Will Justin Welby invite all the practicing homosexual bishops in TEC, Canada, and elsewhere to Lambeth 2020? Will he invite all those who have laid hands on said bishops to consecrate them? As to the slaps on the wrist of TEC and SEC, how can \u201cconsequences\u201d for violating the Word of God expire, conveniently in 2020?<\/p>\n<p>We in Gafcon have our own proverb based on twenty years of experience: \u201cFool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdiscouragement\u201d of Gafcon bishops is\u00a0<em>principled<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>relational.<\/em>\u00a0I have put it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/contendinganglican.org\/2018\/04\/14\/contention-2-taking-sweet-counsel-together\/\">this way<\/a>, based on Psalm 55:12-14:<\/p>\n<p><em>how can you sit in council in Jerusalem and enjoy sweet fellowship with brothers who have been expelled from their churches, sued out of their properties, defrocked from their ministries, and denied even the name of \u201cAnglican\u201d (as was stated in the latest Lambeth Primates\u2019 Communiqu<\/em><em>\u00e9)\u00a0<strong>and then<\/strong>\u00a0turn around and sit at table in Canterbury with bishops of the Episcopal Church (and others) who have expelled these brothers?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, some of the bishops at Gafcon will go to Lambeth, even though the \u201cLetter to the Churches\u201d urges them not to. And many more will not attend as in 2008. Is the Archbishop concerned about this division? Then let him deal seriously with the questions of biblical truth posed to him in the Letter. Perhaps he can surprise everyone by not ignoring these matters as he and his predecessors have done for twenty years. But I am not holding my breath on this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contendinganglican.org\/2018\/07\/08\/post-gafcon-contention-1-reply-to-fulcrum-on-gafcon-2018\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why discourage Bishops from attending the Lambeth Conference 2020, and others from meetings of the Instruments of Communion?&#8230;. Reply: Oh, please. Gene Robinson was not invited in 2008 only because he was a public relations disaster waiting to happen. Will<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=72753\">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":[73,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-analysis","category-gafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72753","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=72753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72755,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72753\/revisions\/72755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}