Stand Firm interviews Bishop Jack Iker
“I fully expect that I’ll receive notification from the Presiding Bishop’s office, within days of our diocesan convention, that I’ve been inhibited. Of course by then it will be irrelevant, because I won’t be under the authority of the Episcopal Church. But they’ll play that out in the same that they did with Bishops Schofield and Duncan.…”
– Bishop Jack Iker is interviewed by Greg Griffiths for Stand Firm.
See also this report by David Virtue. (Photo: Stand Firm.)
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We are contending for the Faith: Fort Worth
“Contending for the Faith” is the theme of this year’s Diocesan Convention, and it aptly describes what lies at the heart of the controversy that surrounds us.
Others have argued that it is a matter of contending for property, or contending for the authority of The Episcopal Church over us, or contending for homosexual rights in the church. But these are simply some of the side issues confronting us.
The real issue is the faith. We are taking a stand for the historic faith and practice of the Bible, as we have received them, and against the continuing erosion of that faith by TEC. This Diocese stands for orthodox Christianity. TEC stands for a revisionist and compromised version of what the Church has always taught..…
– Bishop Jack Iker writes as the Fort Worth Convention on November 14 and 15 draws closer.
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…