GAFCON Slideshow Day 3
Here’s a slideshow of photos taken at GAFCON on Day 3 – Tuesday.
See also yesterday’s photos from the Mount of Olives.
Tentative steps to a new future
Bishop Bill Atwood, a US-based Kenyan bishop, told a press conference that agreed upon principles will lead to a new awareness of voluntary association which will, in turn, lead to a shared purpose and vision, and ultimately to shared structural mechanisms.
He stopped short of declaring a new Anglican entity or that GAFCON would be a rival or alternative Anglican Communion. “Structural life proceeds out of the realities of relationships. There is no constitution in the wings that people can line up…it has to grow out of relationships,” he said.
“Our authority is to the Holy Scriptures and the historic way in which the church has received and interpreted scripture.” …
– Report from David Virtue. (Photo: Russell Powell)
The Big Question: an inevitable split?
In recent decades the Anglican Communion has been sharply divided over a number of issues, particularly whether homosexuality should be accepted and tolerated in the Church. But things are really coming to a head. …
– from The Independent.
Bp Michael Nazir-Ali: Recover your nerve
The most senior English Bishop to appear at the GAFCON conference in Jerusalem has spoken of the need for Christian churches in the west to “recover their nerve”.
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, of the diocese of Rochester in the United Kingdom, announced this week that he would not attend the Lambeth Conference. …
– Story from SydneyAnglicans.net. (Photo: Joy Gwaltney)
Sola Panel on GAFCON
“Back at the Renaissance Hotel Ballroom, Henry Orombi (Archbishop of Uganda) preached a powerful sermon on ‘Jesus is Lord’, the high point of which was his emphasis on the powerful, transforming word of God. Expounding the story of the paralysed man healed by Jesus in John 5, Archbishop Orombi pointed out that Jesus exercised his Lordship by speaking a creative, healing word of power, and that he continues to do so today. …”
– Tony Payne is blogging from GAFCON. Catch his posts here.
Bible exposition central
“We turn to the Bible every day at GAFCON because we wish to hear the word of God saying what God wishes to speak to us,” said the Rev. David Short as he introduced GAFCON’s series of daily scriptural expositions. David spoke to introduce Archbishop Justus Akrofi, primate of the Anglican Church of West Africa as he began the expositions on Tuesday.
– Outline of this week’s Bible expositions from the GAFCON website. (Photo: Joy Gwaltney)
Secular media response to GAFCON
Secular media covering the Global Anglican Future Conference are seriously distorting both the content and message of the 1200 mostly Global South Anglican leaders, which includes 300 bishops from 38 countries …
– David Virtue comments at VirtueOnline.
(Photo: Joy Gwaltney)
Henry Chadwick dies at 87
The Very Rev. Henry Chadwick, an Anglican priest, professor, editor, translator and author whose historical voyages into early Christianity won praise for depth, insight and evenhandedness and helped shed light on modern religious problems, died Tuesday in Oxford, England. He was 87. …
– Obituary from The New York Times. (Graphic: Chadwick’s best known work, The Early Church.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…