12 October 2015 A.D Update on GAFCON (dated 1 Jan 2008)
12 October 2015
A.D Update
on GAFCON (dated 1 Jan 2008)
Riazat Butt has published an article on the Guardian website Conservative Anglicans plan rebel summit.
Sarmiento, Simon. “update [sic] on GAFCON.” Thinking Anglicans. 1 Jan 2008. http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/002828.html.
Accessed
12 Oct 2015.
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
update on GAFCON
Updated
Tuesday afternoon
Reactions to the GAFCON announcement continue
to appear.
George
Conger had an article in the Jerusalem Post
Anglicans choose Jerusalem for key June conference.
Changing
Attitude issued a press release: Changing Attitude responds to the GAFCON announcement.
Orthodox Primates with other leading bishops from
across the globe are inviting fellow Bishops, senior clergy and laity from
every province of the Anglican Communion to a unique eight-day event in
Jerusalem, to be known as the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) 2008.
This GAFCON event,
which was agreed upon at a meeting of Primates in Nairobi a few weeks ago, will
give the orthodox Anglicans from around the world the opportunity to gather, to
learn, to take counsel together and to go forward equipped to proclaim the
Gospel of Christ to a world sitting in the shadow of unbelief. The gathering
will be in the form of a pilgrimage back to the roots of the Church’s faith:
thus this journey begins with a pilgrimage.
The first thing that springs to my mind is the
planning necessary to accommodate all the people who will want to come. I
remember the summer of 2003 when Canon David Roseberry and I had planned a
small gathering of church leaders at his church near Dallas, to take place
after the General Convention in Minneapolis and to be jointly hosted by Christ
Church, Plano, and the American Anglican Council. As people heard of the
gathering, more wanted to come, so we upped our estimated attendance several
times. Finally, as a number of unfaithful and unholy decisions were made by the
General Convention of TEC,
the
rallying cry of the orthodox became, “See you in Plano,” and David Roseberry
and I had to begin to think really big. Hurting people who wanted to be hopeful
came, bishops, priests and deacons and laity came, over 2000 in all. Over 800
clergy were vested in the great procession in the Eucharist. A note of
encouragement from Cardinal Ratzinger, later to become Pope Benedict, was read
by Bishop Duncan of Pittsburgh. Plano became a term and Plano II and Plano West
happened as people took the hope and enthusiasm back home to their areas. The
relentless grinding down of the orthodox members by the Episcopal Church, the
subsequent departures and planned departures, the law suits and litigation, the
depositions and deceit of TEC have all taken their toll, and many
of our faithful Anglicans in North America are hungry and hopeful.
Could Jerusalem 08 (GAFCON) be more than a simple
gathering of the faithful? Might this meeting be on a global scale what Plano
was in the USA:
the crystallization of the future; the future taking form and substance in our
midst, and bringing us forward into a reality shaped and formed by the Holy
Spirit of God? What might God do with Jerusalem 08 and GAFCON?
Tuesday
afternoon update
Riazat Butt has published an article on the Guardian website Conservative Anglicans plan rebel summit.
Posted by Simon
Sarmiento on Tuesday
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