IS THE FINAL CHAPTER ABOUT TO BE WRITTEN IN THE COMING SCHISM?
- Charles Perez
- Sep 17
- 4 min read
COMMENTARY
By David W. Virtue, DD
September 17, 2025
IT was an ominous call to arms.
GAFCON chairman and Rwanda Archbishop Dr. Laurent Mbanda summoned Gafcon bishops to meet with him next march in Abuja, Nigeria, the largest and fastest growing province in the Anglican communion.
What he said was piercing, troubling and illuminating all at once. The very language of “summoning” has an almost legal tone to it. Certainly, a theological and ecclesiastical urgency is implied. He called it an “historic assembly”, a “crucial” period in the life of the Anglican Communion.
Then he took the gloves off and said this; “Revisionists deliberately divide the Communion with schismatic actions that celebrate sin, as they appoint false shepherds to lead their flock away from God’s good word.”
He could not have been clearer. Was he thinking of what the Church in Wales did electing an avowed lesbian to the episcopacy…the continuation of a process begun with Gene Robinson in 2003, even earlier with the Diocese of New Westminster approving rites for same-sex blessings.
Could the chairman’s push for a gathering of the orthodox be a prelude of what’s to come?
One wonders if this is the moment for the announcement of the Great Schism. The Methodist Church schism which involved primarily the United Methodist Church (UMC) splitting over issues related to LGBTQ+ rights led to the formation of a new denomination - the Global Methodist Church. What doth hinder the Anglican Communion? We have had, in fact, a de facto schism now it would be de jure.
Of course, it has been coming for some time now, so should we really be surprised? Global South archbishops and bishops have been endlessly patient with their apostate friends in the Global North and West. At least three Lambeth Conferences have wrestled with the issue.
From the 1998 Lambeth Conference resolution 1:10 rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture, to the Gene Robinson consecration in 2003, through the Windsor Report, a study in sin management, and on to a Covenant for the Anglican communion that never came to fruition; the communion has roiled from one crisis to the next, leading to the sudden departure of the Archbishop of Canterbury over a failed safeguarding issue.
The brilliant but Hegelian driven Rowan Willams became the eminence grise of sexual compromise. The master of language, he designed the Covenant to obfuscate and bully the Global South into acquiescing before the moloch god of sodomy.
This from the Covenant itself; “In living out this inheritance of faith together in varying contexts, each Church, reliant on the Holy Spirit, commits itself….” INTERPRETATION: Ya’ll do your own thing and charge it to the Holy Spirit. No reference to Holy Scripture. Not surprisingly the Covenant sank without trace.
But Global South leaders were not fooled for a moment. They patiently went along with it all convinced they could persuade their northern brethren that homosexuality had no support or approval from scripture or God, and that the West was capitulating to the culture, departing from ‘the faith once for all delivered to the saints.’
It all fell on deaf ears. The smooth-talking Robinson; the false cries of homophobia; the screams of outrage over the lack of inclusion and diversity from the increasing ranks of gay and lesbian clergy, won the day. The fabric of the communion was irrevocably torn. It would never be repaired.
Repeated warnings were given but not heeded. Western Anglicans in thrall to a shrill minority of pansexualists in their churches; the culture and to their governments bent over “and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
It was time to gather up the remnants of the faithful in countries like New Zealand, Australia, the U.S., Canada, even England and begin again to rebuild the Anglican communion.
No easy task. The U.S. led the way with the birth of the AMIA and then the ACNA. Lawsuits, property disputes followed, but 100,000 faithful had had enough and made their way out the Episcopal red doors never to return.
And now it would seem we have reached the end of the road. Pleadings and cajoling’s have all failed. GAFCON leaders have had enough, perhaps the GSFA have seen the writing on the wall and perceive that they can no longer heed the cries of compromise and join their Gafcon brethren.
Archbishop Rowan Williams’ failed Hegelian-driven approach to theology, and Justin Welby’s betrayal of his evangelical heritage, doomed the Church of England.
When the GAFCON bishops meet early next year, there will be no more pleadings. A rudderless Church of England might just as well sail down the Thames River, hit Tower Bridge and sink under its own weight. Some 98 percent of the British public could care less about the CofE.
And now the final chapter is being written. We await the judgement of history.
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The befuddled and befuddling Rowan Williams, the modern day mouthpiece of the lying demonic snake of the Garden of Eden was a pathetic joke, as was his successor Justin Welby. Complete heresy wrapped in lies and obfuscation.
This is an issue of reason as much as of theology. The amount of disease among those giving in to homosexual practices has been staggering, We all need the yoke of Christ in our lives, and we can encourage one another to appropriate God's discipline in everything we think and do. If we do that in relation to those tempted by homosexuality, we are serving them, not fearing or hating them. The logic of this could reverse the destruction of Anglicanism.