{"id":77971,"date":"2019-02-01T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77971"},"modified":"2019-02-01T05:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:33:03","slug":"concerns-about-the-planned-partial-lambeth-conference-in-2020-ii-stephen-noll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77971","title":{"rendered":"Concerns about the planned partial Lambeth Conference in 2020 (II): Stephen Noll"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I am sympathetic with Dr. Goddard\u2019s concern, I think he misses the point. The \u201cprolonged failure\u201d is in fact a system failure<\/em>, and God has gone ahead in reforming His church through the Gafcon and Global South movements, which have picked up the historic mantle which the Lambeth establishment laid down after 1998.<\/p>\n

A Challenge to Orthodox Anglican Bishops<\/h3>\n

My brothers, are you planning to attend the Lambeth Conference next year? If so, what kind of council do you perceive it to be? If the Conference is claiming to be an \u201cInstrument of the Anglican Communion,\u201d what do you understand the word \u201ccommunion\u201d to mean? Do you agree with its claim that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Communion Office have the exclusive \u201cbranding rights\u201d to declare who is Anglican and who is not, as was announced<\/a> by the Primates in October 2017? Do you agree that Bishop Gene Robinson and Bishop Kevin Robertson and those who facilitated them are authentic Anglicans, whereas Archbishop Foley Beach and Archbishop Miguel Uchoa are heading up some other Christian denomination?<\/p>\n

Let me ask you a personal<\/em> question \u2013 because true fellowship is personal and a church council, while it has a formal role, is a body of brothers (and sisters) united in \u201cmaking the good confession\u201d of our Lord Jesus Christ. For those of you who are members of the Gafcon and Global South movements, how can you sit in council in Jerusalem or Cairo and enjoy sweet fellowship with brothers who have been expelled from their churches, sued out of their properties, defrocked from their ministries, and then<\/strong> turn around and sit at table in Canterbury with bishops of the Episcopal Church, Anglican Church of Canada, and others who have disowned these brothers?<\/p>\n

St. John sums up the Gospel fellowship in this way:<\/p>\n

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship (koinonia<\/em>) with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.\u201d (1 John 1:5-6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My brothers, will you walk together in the light of God with your fellow believers and take sweet counsel in the Spirit of Truth? Or will you let them down and say one thing and do another, \u201cdouble-minded men, unstable in all your ways\u201d (James 1:8)? The future of the Anglican tradition and mission hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n

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While I am sympathetic with Dr. Goddard\u2019s concern, I think he misses the point. The \u201cprolonged failure\u201d is in fact a system failure, and God has gone ahead in reforming His church through the Gafcon and Global South movements, which…<\/span><\/p>\n

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