18 September 2015 A.D. REV. MATT KENNEDY: GAFCON’s response to CANTUAR’S invitation to meeting in January 2016



18 September 2015 A.D. REV. MATT KENNEDY: GAFCON’s response to CANTUAR’S invitation to meeting in January 2016 

Kennedy, Matt. “GAFCON responds to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Invitation.” Stand Firm. 18 Sept 2015. http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/31996. Accessed 18 Sept 2015.

GAFCON responds to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Invitation


Happy to see this fine statement by GAFCON, especially pleased to read that they have not yet agreed to go in light of the fact that TEC and the Canadian province have been invited:

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.

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