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NIGERIA: Anglican Primate says he will not Attend ACC Meeting in Lusaka, Zambia in April
Okoh cites the Episcopal Church's well-prepared camp of recruitment, blackmail, indoctrination and toxic relationship
Orthodox Anglicans need "special status" in the Communion, says orthodox Archbishop
By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
March 15, 2016
The Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, says he will not attend the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Lusaka next month because the Episcopal Church is engaged in a campaign to walk orthodox Anglicans into "a well-rehearsed scheme to apply persuasion, subtle blackmail and coercion against those still standing with the Scriptures" on human sexuality.
He blasted the Episcopal Church and those who would "join the straight jacket of the revisionists and be politically correct," arguing that they are succeeding.
He ripped what happened at Canterbury where the Primates recently met, and said that those who held orthodox views on human sexuality were branded and denounced as "homophobic", leaving no one in doubt "that we were in the wrong place."
Okoh, the leader of the largest province in the Anglican Communion, said that patience was exercised only to enable the communion to bring scriptural-believers to gradually embrace the homosexual doctrine. "The Anglican Communion's journey is very uncertain for the orthodox."
Contrasting the situation in the Anglican Communion with the British Government's relationship with the European Union calling for a "special status", the Nigerian primate of more than 20 million souls, said that those Anglican provinces who refuse to embrace the sexual culture being promoted by some provinces against what the Bible teaches, also need a "special status."
The evangelical primate said that as long as orthodox Anglicans are candidates for revisionist provinces to gradually embrace the new sex culture, "it will be unwise to deliberately walk into a well-prepared camp of recruitment, blackmail, indoctrination and toxic relationship."
Therefore, we will not attend the Anglican consultative Council meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, he concluded.
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