22 September 2015 A.D. Remembering 16 Apr 2009—Global Anglicans recognize new American entity for conservatives
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Global Anglicans recognize new American entity for conservatives
22 September 2015 A.D. Remembering 16 Apr 2009—Global Anglicans recognize
new American entity for conservatives
Editors. “Global Anglicans recognize new American
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Global Anglicans recognize new American entity for conservatives
GAFCON primates council lends legitimacy to Anglican Communion in North America
Top conservative Anglicans have been meeting in London this week and as
expected they have issued a communique that offers recognition to Bishop Robert
Duncan, former Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh, and his organization the
Anglican Communion in North America, a proposed new province.
The ACNA expects to meet this summer to more formally establish an
organization of traditional and conservative Anglicans in the United States and
Canada. In the meantime, the ligitation over church property, financial assets,
trust funds, and endowments continues between the Episcopal Church and parishes
and dioceses that have separated from TEC.
See below for the full statement, released early this morning:
Communique from the GAFCON/FCA Primates' Council
In the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen.
We meet in the week after Easter, rejoicing again in the power of the risen
Lord Jesus to transform lives and situations. We continue to experience his
active work in our lives and the lives of our churches and we rejoice in the
Gospel of hope.
From its inception, the GAFCON movement has centered on the power of Christ
to make all things new. We have heard this week of the great progress made in
North America towards the creation of a new Province basing itself on this same
biblical gospel of transformation and hope. We have also envisioned the future
of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans as a movement for defending and
promoting the biblical gospel of the risen Christ.
Yet we are saddened that the present crisis in the Anglican Communion of
which we are a part remains unresolved. The recent meeting of Primates in
Alexandria served only to demonstrate how deep and intractable the divisions
are and to encourage us to sustain the important work of GAFCON.
The GAFCON Primates' Council has the responsibility of recognizing and
authenticating orthodox Anglicans especially those who are alienated by their
original Provinces. We are also called to promote the Fellowship of Confessing
Anglicans (FCA) in its stand against false teaching and as a rallying point for
orthodoxy. It is our aim to ensure that the unity of the Anglican Communion is
centered on Biblical teaching rather than mere institutional loyalty. It is
essential to provide a way in which faithful Anglicans, many of whom are
suffering much loss, can remain as Anglicans within the Communion while
distancing themselves from false teaching.
At this meeting highly significant progress was made on the following
fronts.
Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA).
The FCA in its initial stages is attracting membership by individuals,
churches, dioceses, provinces and organizations involving millions of
Anglicans. We are heartened by the large numbers of Anglicans who share a
commitment to the theological formularies of true Anglicanism that provide a
firm foundation for our faith.
We have therefore reviewed the strategy and structures of the FCA to better
reflect the demands now made on it. We were glad to receive from the FCA
Theological Group their Commentary on the Jerusalem Declaration. We have
established the FCA web-site, www.fca.net. We received reports from those
involved in partnership development work in the Sudan and elsewhere.
The FCA is committed to pursue our common mission through the establishment
of regional chapters and networks of Anglicans who will strengthen and support
each other. We rejoice in the development of an active branch of the FCA in the
United Kingdom and the proposed launch on July 6th in Westminster Central Hall,
London. The establishment of an Advisory Board of bishops, clergy, and laity
from around the world reflects the growing breadth of support.
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) - Careful consideration was
given to the new Province in North America. We met with Bishop Bob Duncan and
other key leaders. The emergent Province consists currently of approximately
100,000 Christians in Canada and the US who wish to continue in full membership
of the Anglican Communion world-wide.As a result of this process, we celebrate
the organization and official formation of ACNA around the same principles that
gave rise to the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) and now the
Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA). Though many Provinces are in impaired
or broken communion with TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada, our fellowship
with faithful Anglicans in North America remains steadfast.
The FCA Primates' Council recognizes the Anglican Church in North America
as genuinely Anglican and recommends that Anglican Provinces affirm full
communion with the ACNA. Anglican Covenant? As the Jerusalem Declaration
insists we believe that the existing theological formularies of Anglicanism
provide an adequate basis for the restoration of the relationships within the
Anglican Communion. While we support the concept of an Anglican Covenant, we
understand that its adequacy depends on the willingness to address the crisis
that has "torn the fabric" of the Communion. We welcome the Ridley
Cambridge Draft Covenant and call for principled response from the Provinces.
Relationships.
We value our relationships within the Anglican Communion and those with our
ecumenical friends. Already, regional chapters and links are forming in many
parts of the world with those who share the commitments expressed in GAFCON and
FCA. We look forward in real hope to a positive response amongst the Churches,
Dioceses and Provinces of the Communion to our call to enter into full
communion with the new Anglican Church in North America. Only in this way, we
believe, will the need for the so-called cross border incursions' come to an
end and a measure of peace restored.
We are especially grateful for the contributions made by the three previous
gatherings of the Global South in Limuru, Kenya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and
Ein-Sukhna, Egypt, and the clarion sound of the "Trumpets." We look
forward to sharing in gatherings in the future.
Conclusion
We remain committed to the Anglican Communion and to being a faithful and
creative voice for renewal within it to recapture a focus on Biblical teaching
and mission. Though conscious of our inadequacies, in the light of Christ's
resurrection power, we speak with confidence and seek only to serve the Lord,
the people of the Anglican Communion and those who have yet to hear the life-changing
message of the Gospel. We are encouraged by the Word of the Lord. The Good News
of salvation through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ is our only hope and
our focus. We continue steadfastly in our commitment to share the fullness of
the Gospel in our nations and around the world.
Alleluia! Christ is risen: The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!
London, April 16, 2009
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