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August 10 2022 By dvirtue GAFCON CHAIRMAN: "ANGLICAN COMMUNION IS BROKEN"

"The Primates of Brazil, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, North America, Rwanda, and Uganda, and many bishops from all over the Anglican Communion in the GAFCON movement did not attend the Lambeth Conference because to do so would violate their consciences. However, we respected the decision of our brother Primates whose consciences led them to go to Lambeth and contend for the Gospel and the Holy Scriptures. The power of their presence magnified the power of our absence," said Beach.

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August 09 2022 By dvirtue LAMBETH: Discipleship a la carte

One of the bishops said, "that people will rarely turn into disciples unless you're intentional about making them." Practical advice, but no one even gave a definition of discipleship, let alone its practical outworking. Who and what is a disciple, pray tell?

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August 07 2022 By dvirtue ORTHODOX BISHOPS AT THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE REAFFIRM LAMBETH 1.10 AS ANGLICAN TEACHING ON MARRIAGE & SEXUALITY

Re-affirming Lambeth 1.10 was a clarion call to base the Communion's ethical teaching on holy Scripture.

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August 07 2022 By dvirtue Archbishop Welby "not proud" about Progress in Christian Unity

To millions of evangelical Anglicans, that is a red cape to an evangelical bull. The creation of the Ordinariate by the Roman Catholic Church picked off Anglo-Catholics fed up with the revisionism of The Episcopal Church, but still and all, a large group of Anglo-Catholics remain loyal to Anglicanism. Anglicanism has positioned itself as the Via Media Church between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism which developed within Anglicanism by at least the seventeenth century.

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August 06 2022 By dvirtue ORTHODOX GLOBAL SOUTH BISHOPS WILL STAY IN THE COMMUNION AND HOLD THE LINE

The matter of same-sex unions is not a secondary issue that allows for a position of adiaphora (indifference). God's revealed intention for marriage to be a life-long commitment and union between a man and a woman is an essential truth in the corpus of 'the faith once delivered.'

Archbishop Badi said he came to Lambeth 2022 "to reset the Communion on its biblical foundation in person and as a unified grouping of orthodox bishops within the Communion."

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August 05 2022 By dvirtue SOUTHERN AFRICA ARCHBISHOP THABO MAKGOBA ADMITS DIVISION ON SAME-SEX ISSUES

Asked by Mark Michael of The Living Church; "You affirmed the validity of Lambeth 1.10. What does that mean?" the African archbishop said it means that Lambeth 1.10 is not rescinded. It is part of our history. We have given an assessment of where we stand."

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August 04 2022 By dvirtue LAMBETH: Ecumenicity does not include Anglicans not recognized by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Canon lawyer Rev. Canon Phil Ashey, chair of the Governance Task Force of the ACNA said, "I remember going to Westminster House and presenting our constitution and canons to the bishops of the Faith Order and Ecumenical Relations along with Archbishop Robert Duncan and others from the ACNA.

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August 04 2022 By dvirtue South Sudanese Bishops Would Rather Go Without Than Compromise Their Faith Over Homosexuality

Four of his bishops spoke movingly to Virtueonline about the situation of their people in their dioceses who face starvation and poverty in order to maintain their integrity.

Bishop Moses Deng of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal explained that South Sudan has been in a state of 'war' since 1955. But even now, many rebel groups have not signed the Revitalised Peace Agreement which runs out in February 2023.

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August 04 2022 By dvirtue "I WILL NOT PUNISH CHURCHES FOR CONDUCTING GAY MARRIAGES" -- JUSTIN WELBY

What about punishment in not inviting the Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, Foley Beach as a full-throated Anglican, but only as an "ecumenical observer" a sort of non-Anglican, Anglican!

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August 03 2022 By dvirtue WELBY OFFERS DUAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN SEXUALITY

With conviction, Welby wrote: "I write therefore to affirm that the validity of the resolution passed at the Lambeth Conference 1998, 1:10 is not in doubt and that whole resolution is still in existence. Indeed, the Call on Human Dignity made clear this is the case, as the resolution is quoted from three times in the paragraph 2.3 of the Call on Human Dignity."

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