“GAFCON is not an alternative Anglican Communion because …”

“A recurring theme of the first two days of GAFCON has been ‘We are not leaving Anglicanism. Others have left by departing from the Anglican formularies, particularly its commitment to the authority of scripture.’  …

Archbishop Stanley Ntagali reported the May 30 decision of the Uganda House of Bishops on any participation in the Lambeth Anglican Communion.

  1. We are not attending Lambeth 2020
  2. Unless godly order is restored we will not attend other meetings invited by Canterbury
  3. Unless ACNA and the new Brazil Province are invited we will not attend any meetings invited by Canterbury

This was greeted by a standing ovation followed by spontaneous singing of the East African Revival Hymn Tukutendereza Yesu (We praise you Jesus). …”

– Chris Sugden reports on GAFCON 2018 at Anglican Mainstream.

Photo of Archbishop Ntagali – GAFCON Media.

Revelation TV fined for ‘Homophobia’

“Yesterday [Beware the Promises of Politicians] we saw how politicians who pass laws which go against Christian social teaching and then promise that of course we will still be free to express disagreement are not to be trusted. They are incapable of keeping that promise.

Today I want to show further where this is leading.

I have been suggesting for some time that the acceptance of different social teachings to those Christian ones upon which our society has been built – would soon result in the Christian teachings being banned. This was always vehemently denied. Now – as we saw yesterday this is well under way. …”

– David Robertson, at The Wee Flea, comments on what is likely to be coming soon to your Christian ministry.

Image: David Robertson on Revelation TV in 2013.

Kangaroos don’t go backwards

“Among the 2,000 international delegates meeting at GAFCON III in Jerusalem is one from Australia who is giving each delegate that he meets a “gold” kangaroo pin. To the non-antipodeans he explains why …”

– Story from GAFCON.

Where can I find the Jerusalem Declaration?

Have you been hearing about The Jerusalem Declaration from the first GAFCON gathering in 2008? (It was quoted by Archbishop Okoh in his address on the opening day.)

You can read it – as well as the GAFCON 2008 Final Statement and the Lambeth 1998 Resolution 1.10 on Human Sexuality – in our Reference Documents and Press Releases section of the website.

See also: The Kuala Lumpur Statement, 1997 (in the older section of our website).

GAFCON Live – Tuesday

The Tuesday session of GAFCON is now being streamed from gafcon.org/live.

Forward. Always forward. Everywhere forward!

“GAFCON Primate the Most Revd Dr Foley Beach, Archbishop of the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), has taught his Province the axiom, “Forward. Always forward. Everywhere forward!”.

What pertains to a single GAFCON Province could also describe aptly the whole GAFCON movement.

For movement it is. Out of what GAFCON General Secretary Dr Peter Jensen described today as the two significant moments for GAFCON- the Lambeth and GAFCON conferences of 2008, has come a single movement of increasing momentum. …”

– Read the latest from GAFCON.

See also:

Photo of Archbishop Okoh’s address via the American Anglican Council.

Couldn’t get to Jerusalem? Check the GAFCON photo albums

The GAFCON media team have been posting photos of the event so far.

Click the image above for a taste, or here for the full photo albums.

Thanks for all their work!

Watch Bishop Alfred Olwa’s opening Bible Exposition from Jerusalem

Bishop Alfred Olwa gave the opening Bible Exposition at the start of GAFCON 2018 yesterday.

Watch it here. (Photo and caption: GAFCON Communications.)

GAFCON grows – conference doubles

“Not to choose to embrace Jesus is to choose to reject Jesus.” This stirring call to Jesus-centred mission, and biblical faithfulness came from Ugandan Bishop Alfred Olwa at the start of Global Anglican Future Conference 2018 in Jerusalem today.

The meeting is the third GAFCON and came 10 years after the first gathering which established a movement to promote bible-based, mission-focussed ministry in the Anglican Church.

The conference is unique because unlike other Anglican Communion gatherings lay people participate, as well as clergy and bishops.

GAFCON 2018 is meeting in the Jerusalem International Convention Center in order to fit the two thousand delegates – almost twice the number who met in 2008. …

– Read today’s report from Jerusalem by Russell Powell.

GAFCON described as ‘ecumenical gathering’ by Anglican Communion News Service

“The third international conference organised by the Gafcon movement has begun in Jerusalem. Organisers say that 2,000 people are taking part – media reports suggest that 230 are from Uganda.

The ecumenical gathering attracts a large number of Anglicans. Many in Jerusalem are now members of independent churches set up in opposition to official Anglican Churches and Provinces. …”

– Here’s a rather sad news report from the Anglican Communion News Service.

GAFCON livestream from Jerusalem

The GAFCON livestream is available while sessions are in progress.

Watch it live here.

How to share the gospel with a stranger

“I first heard the gospel at 18, from an older lady I’d never met before.

She told me the good news of Jesus while I was pumping fuel into her car (I worked at a petrol station). She then said that I should go to a local church to learn more about Jesus.

We had almost nothing in common, and relationally she didn’t have a leg to stand on, but she trusted in the power of the gospel to save (Rom 1:16) and she understood that loving her neighbour meant going outside of her comfort zone for her neighbour’s salvation. As a result, I went to church, started reading the Bible, and God saved me…”

– Some real encouragement from ACL Council member Mike Taylor – at The Australian Church Record. Be sure to read it all – and then act.

Parish confident St Matthias’ will be saved

“The Holy Trinity Anglican Parish [Launceston] is confident St Matthias’ Church will be saved from sale.

The Windermere church was chosen as one of 108 properties the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania plans to sell in order to partly fund its commitment to the national redress scheme for sexual abuse survivors. …

Speaking at a public meeting on Sunday, the Holy Trinity Anglican parish Archdeacon Dane Courtney said the community could successfully raise the amount expected to go toward the redress scheme to save the church. …”

– Report and image from The Examiner.

Trinity Western University loses before Supreme Court of Canada

“Trinity Western University, an evangelical tertiary institution in British Columbia, has lost two cases it had brought protesting the decision of two Canadian Provincial Law Societies to not authorise graduates of their proposed Law School as able to practice in the Provinces.

The reason for the denial of accreditation was that TWU requires students and staff to agree to a Community Covenant Agreement, which undertakes (among other things) that they will not engage while studying or working at TWU in ‘sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman’. …”

– At Law and Religion Australia, Neil Foster provides his analysis of the decisions.

Related: Supreme Court of Canada strikes a blow against religious freedom.

The urbane voice likely to capture the CofE

“As GAFCON gathers in Jerusalem, a sermon on June 7th preached at a church in Clapham in south-west London would probably not be deemed worthy of an agenda item or even of much passing discussion. But actually it is highly significant in the battle for biblical orthodoxy in the Church of England.

For the sermon by the Revd Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square, entitled ‘Not until you give me your blessing’, aptly illustrates why the LGBTQI++ movement is so close to capturing the Church of England as well as the English alphabet. …”

– Julian Mann in the UK writes of “the urbane, erudite-sounding voices of apparent Anglican moderation”.

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