The Anglican Communion Primates for worldwide Anglicanism, in a recent communique to the ECUSA (Episcopal Church USA) has made a few unequivocal statements. The ECUSA amounts to 8% of the Anglican Communion, yet in arrogance, has put ordination of a homosexual bishop and acknowledgement of same sex unions over two thousand years of doctrine and polity. Here, according to Reverend Canon David C. Anderson, are the essential elements of the Primates Communique:
1. It clearly upholds the authority of Holy Scripture in ordering our moral and common life;
2. It reaffirms the teaching of the Anglican Communion on human sexuality as articulated in Lambeth 1.10
3. It expects ECUSA to withdraw from the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) for a period of three years;
4. It is unprecedented: never before has a province been instructed to stand down for a specific time frame;
5. It makes clear that failure to embrace and uphold Biblical teaching and practice will result in permanent consequences.
In my view, the ECUSA will ignore these actions and continue to hold to a "higher" gospel, which includes the social gospel of "inclusiveness", thereby becoming still another split in the church and a new denomination as a result. The traditional and observant churches which are part of the ECUSA will "walk apart" from the "new" denomination. There may then be a huge fight in the denomination over the church properties, since the surviving denomination may hold the keys to all the property.
I pray for the ECUSA, as I assume that the other 92% of the Anglican Communion are doing, to repent and return to the fold. So far, officially, the ECUSA is in denial that anything at all has happened. There has been no news of the split in the diocesan newspaper, for example. The "spin machine" is characterizing this huge rift as a discussion. They have even decided to suspend all ordinations, though only asked to suspend the ordination of acknowledged homosexuals, effectively holding the denomination hostage to the gay agenda. There are currently two denominations in the ECUSA, composed of those who hold "inclusiveness" as the highest value, and those who are traditional. A formal split cannot be far away.
1. It clearly upholds the authority of Holy Scripture in ordering our moral and common life;
2. It reaffirms the teaching of the Anglican Communion on human sexuality as articulated in Lambeth 1.10
3. It expects ECUSA to withdraw from the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) for a period of three years;
4. It is unprecedented: never before has a province been instructed to stand down for a specific time frame;
5. It makes clear that failure to embrace and uphold Biblical teaching and practice will result in permanent consequences.
In my view, the ECUSA will ignore these actions and continue to hold to a "higher" gospel, which includes the social gospel of "inclusiveness", thereby becoming still another split in the church and a new denomination as a result. The traditional and observant churches which are part of the ECUSA will "walk apart" from the "new" denomination. There may then be a huge fight in the denomination over the church properties, since the surviving denomination may hold the keys to all the property.
I pray for the ECUSA, as I assume that the other 92% of the Anglican Communion are doing, to repent and return to the fold. So far, officially, the ECUSA is in denial that anything at all has happened. There has been no news of the split in the diocesan newspaper, for example. The "spin machine" is characterizing this huge rift as a discussion. They have even decided to suspend all ordinations, though only asked to suspend the ordination of acknowledged homosexuals, effectively holding the denomination hostage to the gay agenda. There are currently two denominations in the ECUSA, composed of those who hold "inclusiveness" as the highest value, and those who are traditional. A formal split cannot be far away.
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