Posted on 06/18/2008 5:52:49 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Hardline Church leaders have formally declared the end of the worldwide Anglican Communion, saying they can no longer be associated with liberals who tolerate homosexual clergy.
The traditionalists dealt a serious blow to Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, by claiming that he can no longer hold the Church together.
They warned that the Church was gripped by its most serious crisis since the Reformation.
It could only be saved by the repentance of the Americans who triggered the row by ordaining a homosexual bishop, the Rt Rev Gene Robinson, five years ago.
The formal pronouncement of the schism is contained in an 89-page document titled The Way, the Truth and the Life, which has been drawn up by conservative Anglicans ahead of the breakaway Gafcon summit next week and which has been seen by The Telegraph.
It is supported by the heads of key African churches including Nigeria, Uganda and Rwanda.
Archbishop Peter Akinola, the primate of Nigeria, states in one section: "There is no longer any hope, therefore, for a unified Communion.''
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Hardline?
That would be the liberals, who will not budge nor repent.
There. Repaired the bias.
Why are the normal ones always called “hardliners”? How would the other side feel if they were called the “Limpwrists”.
Be interesting how the Pope plays his cards...
It is past time for Christians to stand for the Word.
And he will NOT go quietly.
At least someone in the Anglican Communion has read Matthew 18
8 “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. 9 “If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.
Well, if they choose it, Anglicans will find a warm reception on the shores of the Tiber.
Absolutely! The TAC is already getting their feet wet.
All roads do lead to Rome and you'll be welcomed by BXVI who, enthused by the Holy Ghost, is throwing modernism out the window!
With the Lambeth conference to follow shortly thereafter, it will be an interesting and likely historic summer for Anglicans.
Why are the chr*stians of Africa so much more conservative than those of "Afro-America?"
Why don't they expel the unrepentant Americans from the worldwide Anglican Communion and allow the repentant ones to remain in it? Or is that what they're saying?
They should have arranged to kick that nitwit out while they were at it.
Or you can fellowship with a remnant that actually believes the Bible is true, and uses it in all matters of faith and practice.
We’d love to have you visit. Ironically, my uncle is a bishop of a major U.S. city and he knows next to nothing about God’s Word. Ignorance of God’s Word spawns liberalism.
Check it out. Follow the trail of blood of the matyrs (J.M. Carroll)...the Donatists, Paulicians, Albigenses, Waldensians, Anabaptists.....and more....
http://www.independencebaptist.org/Trail%20of%20Blood/trail_of_blood.htm
I pray the love of Christ and His word grows abundantly in
you.
Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
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