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March 19 2023 By dvirtue THE NEXT STEP: A NEW COMMUNION OF CHURCHES: Thesis 13

I suppose the most powerful vision of the Church triumphant is found in the penultimate chapter of the Bible:

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March 18 2023 By dvirtue WHERE TO NOW?

Later, in 1994, several faithful men, led by the Rev Dr David Samuel, founded the Church of England Continuing at a meeting at St Mary's, Castle Street, Reading. The given reasons for this move were as a reaction against the use of contemporary-language liturgies (particularly the 1980 Alternative Service Book) and the recently approved ordination of women as priests. There were many other biblical and doctrinal matters which lay behind their action.

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March 15 2023 By dvirtue THE NEXT STEP: AFTER LAMBETH 2022: Thesis 12

GAFCON III addressed its appeal to Canterbury along with a warning of absenting its bishops from the 2020 Lambeth Conference. Covid-19, however, had other ideas, and Lambeth was rescheduled for July-August 2022. But no amount of time was needed by Archbishop Welby to turn a deaf ear to what he contemptuously called a "ginger group." There would be no invitations forthcoming to the bishops of the Anglican Church in North America and the Anglican Church of Brazil.

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March 13 2023 By dvirtue Has the curtain fallen on the Church of England?

Like us in our day, the bishops of the English Church such as Latimer, had personal, cultural, political and ecclesiastical pressures which weighed heavily upon them to conform to the intense influences of loud and powerful voices. And yet, even when threatened with the flames of martyrdom, they would not capitulate and abandon the faith but constantly believed God's holy word and kept his commandments.

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March 13 2023 By dvirtue CHURCHES THAT DON'T EVANGELISE WILL DIE, SAYS NICKY GUMBEL

"If a church is not involved in evangelism, eventually it will die."

Gumbel, who pioneered the hugely successful Alpha course, emphasised the importance of church unity for successful evangelism.

"If you don't have unity, the world will not believe. If you put evangelism first you have to be renewed, you have to be filled with the Holy Spirit," he said.

He went on to warn pastors against altering the Gospel message.

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March 13 2023 By dvirtue THE NEXT STEP: GAFCON AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH FELLOWSHIP TAKE PARALLEL LANES TOWARD A NEW COMMUNION: Thesis 11

Where do Global Anglicans go from here? That will be my proposal for GAFCON and the Global South Fellowship: a united communion of gospel-centered Global Anglicans independent of Canterbury.

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March 10 2023 By dvirtue TWO WORLD-VIEWS COLLIDE

Economics and foreign policy are so passe. In politics today the issues which split people centre around sex. Reproduction, abortion, homosexuality, what constitutes a family, pornography, sex education, even what constitutes a sex itself are all hot-button issues. The UK's decriminalisation of homosexual sex in 1967 was the key which opened the door to the progressive onslaught.

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March 08 2023 By dvirtue TO LIVE AND DIE AS A BISHOP

Toward the end of his tenure, Montgomery didn't enjoy the full support of his clergy. Twenty years in the job will do that to you and he was running out of tricks to keep the diocese afloat with funds from Miriam Hoover--the Brooke Astor of Chicago. Griswold, a scion of Mainline Philadelphia, St. Paul's in Concord NH, Harvard, General Theological Seminary and Oxford, was perceived as a breath of fresh air. Be careful what you wish for.

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March 08 2023 By dvirtue GAFCON: THE PRIMATES COUNCIL: Thesis 10

This was the spirit which most attendees brought to GAFCON 2008. So there was great rejoicing as the eight Primates present – Peter Akinola of Nigeria, Henry Orombi of Uganda, Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda, Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya, Valentine Mokiwa of Tanzania, Bernard Malango of Central Africa, Justice Akrofi of West Africa, and Greg Venables of the Southern Cone of South America – walked solemnly to the front of the Assembly and signed the final Statement.

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March 06 2023 By dvirtue GAFCON: THE DECLARATION OF FAITH: Thesis 9

COMMENT
The Old Testament prophets are backward-looking as well as forward-looking, or perhaps better, they look through the lens of the past to envision God's future for His people. The same Jeremiah who foresees a new Covenant calls on the people to "stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it" (Jeremiah 6:16).

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