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March 13 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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).
March 04 2023
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
The prevailing powerful ideas that drove modernism such as scientific materialism (which denied the existence of the spiritual realm and promoted the conceit that science can explain everything), individual autonomy, the narrative of unstoppable progress, all contributed to the devaluing of the supernatural. The historical-critical method in Biblical Studies was arguably a development made possible by modernism.
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March 02 2023
GAFCON: THE PROPHETIC INDICTMENT: Thesis 8
--Scholars and bishops from the Theological Resource Group (who produced the pre-Conference book) exchanged ideas via email during the month prior to the Conference. Some of these ideas were incorporated into the Statement, but the final version is significantly richer and more comprehensive than any earlier strand.
March 01 2023
GAFCON: THE GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONFESSING ANGLICANS: Thesis 7
COMMENT
February 25 2023
Split or Stay? Encouragement for Anglican Pastors
I was born into, grew up in, and was ordained by the Episcopal Church. But years ago, I (along with our congregation in Washington, DC) wrestled through the decision to stay or leave. Much more troubling than our denomination's embrace of the contemporary sexual ethic was their clear retreat from historic Christian orthodoxy. In the hardest, most expensive decision we've ever made, we withdrew and joined many others in forming the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).
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