18 September 2015 A.D. GAFCON to ABC Justin Welby: “Truth on the Table”
18 September 2015 A.D. GAFCON to ABC Justin Welby: “Truth on the Table”
Editors. “GAFCON calls for `truth on the
table.’” GAFCON. 18 Sept 2015. http://gafcon.org/news/gafcon-calls-for-truth-on-the-table.
Accessed 18 Sept 2015.
GAFCON calls for ‘truth on the table’
Media
Statement
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s call for a meeting
of Primates in January 2016 shows that he has recognised the deep concerns of
faithful church leaders around the world, including those belonging to the
GAFCON movement who represent the majority of the global Communion’s
membership.
GAFCON began with the first Global Anglican Future
Conference in 2008 as an initiative to restore the integrity of Anglican faith
and order as the Communion descended into deepening crisis.
We are now a global family standing together to
restore the Bible to the heart of the Anglican Communion with a strength and
unity that comes from our common confession of the Lord Jesus Christ, not
merely from historic institutional structures.
It is on this basis that the GAFCON Primates will
prayerfully consider their response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter.
They recognize that the crisis in the Communion is not primarily a problem of
relationships and cultural context, but of false teaching which continues
without repentance or discipline.
Consistent with this position, they have previously
advised the Archbishop of Canterbury that they would not attend any meeting at
which The Episcopal Church of the United States or the Anglican Church of
Canada were represented, nor would they attend any meeting from which the
Anglican Church in North America was excluded.
It is therefore of some encouragement that the
Archbishop of Canterbury has opened the door of this meeting to the Primate of
the Anglican Church in North America, Archbishop Foley Beach. He has already
been recognized as a fellow primate of the Anglican Communion by Primates
representing GAFCON and the Anglican Global South at his installation in
Atlanta last October and he is a full member of the GAFCON Primates Council.
In the end, our confidence is not in any structural
reorganisation, useful though it may be, but in the saving grace of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ and in the abiding truth of the Bible. That is what
empowers us and this is the assurance we bring to our broken world.
September 17, 2015 AD
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September 18, 2015
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