GAFCON set to start tomorrow
More than one thousand Anglicans from 25 nations, including 300 bishops are on their way to Jerusalem to attend the Global Anglican Future Conference. The meeting, which will be held June 22 – 29, includes daily addresses from key Anglican pastors, teachers and leaders. …
– GAFCON press release. (All attending would be glad of your prayers.)
Phillip Jensen on the Anglican family
You can’t split a marshmallow. You can melt it. You can even cut it. But, marshmallows are too malleable to be split. Something has to be brittle to split.
So there will be no split in Anglicanism. It is just not the kind of thing that is open to splitting.
The heat of the society in which we operate may melt us. Outside forces can even cut into us. But we have no mechanism to split even if we had the desire to do so.
Here is the strange strength and weakness of Anglicanism. Having resisted the tyranny of Roman rule, Anglicanism could not replace it with Lambeth rule. Thus each national church is free to follow the Lord Jesus in their own culture. Read more
Reclaiming Orthodoxy
Archbishop Peter Jensen interviewed for Christianity Today:
“… Evangelicals find themselves in all sorts of different denominations. The convulsions which are striking [Anglicans], if they have not reached your mainstream denomination, will do so without a doubt. Evangelicals will then have to decide whether their denomination comes first or whether their adherence to the gospel comes first.”
Christianity Today features an interview with Archbishop Peter Jensen.
‘Hard-line bishops make a mess of it in the Holy Land’
“If it was being held in a brewery, it’s a fair bet that the organisers of the supposedly greatest threat to authority in the Church since the Reformation would not be feeling particularly tipsy. …”
– This piece, by George Pitcher in The Telegraph in the UK, ably demonstrates that you can’t believe everything you read in the newspapers.
Another chilling precedent
A recent court decision in Canada should send chills down every parent’s spine. The ruling is so out of bounds that the news story sounds like a parody – but it isn’t. A Canadian judge ruled that a 12-year-old girl was “excessively” punished when her father told her she could not go on a school camping trip because she had broken rules for use of the Internet. …
– from Al Mohler’s blog.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…