Here is the link to the Chaimans Address at GAFCON. It is a must read. An excerpt... Five years on, the paralysis of which we spoke has intensified. And it has become clear that the Communion now needs new wineskins, a new way of ordering its affairs to fulfil the world wide scope of the Great Commission. Even the Archbishop of Canterbury has now come to this conclusion and I am grateful for His Grace’s honesty in acknowledging that the Anglican Communion’s neo- colonial leadership structures need to be replaced when he preached here at All Saints Cathedral last Sunday. However, it is difficult to see how stable and effective leadership can be developed unless the depth of the spiritual crisis we face is acknowledged. Organisational change on its own will not be enough. Even the very weak theological discipline of the Anglican Covenant has failed to win consent despite years of negotiation and the Archbishop of Canterbury is no longer able to gather the Communion. The problem lies with the fact that we have an unprecedented situation to deal with now which is the existence and tolerance of a false gospel within the Anglican Communion, as identified in the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration. Any solution to our difficulties must face this reality without flinching and the fact this GAFCON movement is gaining momentum tells me that we are right to assert the historic Anglican gospel of grace as the basis upon which we gather.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:54:58 +0000
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