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To: NYer

There may still be Christians in the Anglican Church. But the Anglican Church is most definitely not a Christian institution.


3 posted on 08/08/2008 6:34:47 AM PDT by Liberty1970
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To: Liberty1970
There may still be Christians in the Anglican Church. But the Anglican Church is most definitely not a Christian institution.

Indeed. I wish the Vatican would end the charade of Ecumenical talks with this institution.

14 posted on 08/08/2008 6:38:29 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Liberty1970

The only Christian institution is the church, the body of Christ. The idea that there are multiple Christian institutions (denominations) within the body of Christ is not in agreement with Scripture. There are many congregations of the church, but these are all part of the same body.


36 posted on 08/08/2008 7:30:14 AM PDT by jkl1122
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To: Liberty1970

With all due respect, that is an inaccurate representation of the Anglican communion.

The Majority of Anglicans are indeed biblically based, orthodox Christians.

The worldwide Anglican communion is made up of approx. 70 million members.

The minority are the liberal progressives, mainly in Canada, England, and America. These three provinces make up around five million.

In fact, the Episcopal Church in America claims membership roles of 1.5 million, this number is more like 600K.

My family left the “liberal” Episcopal church over two years ago, yet we are still on their membership roles in the Diocese of Texas.

Kinda sad if you think about it. Even those who have passed away are still on the membership roles in many cases.

My family and I are now worshiping Christ within the Anglican tradition alongside AMIA. Anglican Mission in the Americas.

A missionary movement to the Americas.


39 posted on 08/08/2008 8:10:00 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Liberty1970
His personal views in those letters found in archives do not represent the Anglican Communion position which is that homosexual behavior is incompatible with Scripture.
(Lambeth Resolution 1.10 - 1998 - passed by an overwhelming margin)
43 posted on 08/08/2008 8:48:38 AM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: Liberty1970
But the Anglican Church is most definitely not a Christian institution.

Keep in mind that the representatives of over 70% of the Anglican Communion worldwide totally disagree with Rowan Williams (mis)interpretation on this, and just recently had their own "Global Anglican Future Conference" (GAFCON) independent of Archbishop Williams in Jerusalem--and then most of them boycotted the regular 10 year Lambeth meeting of Anglican bishops headed by Williams.

Blessedly (and yet sadly) the English Anglican Church is no longer leading the worldwide Anglican Church.

Williams has been a colossal failure as a leader, dithering around while the Communion fell apart--all because they won't obey scripture when it comes to the sins of Sodom (among other things).

44 posted on 08/08/2008 8:50:56 AM PDT by AnalogReigns
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