A Wake up call to the People of God

Posted on February 11, 2009 
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Archbishop Peter Akinola“All through our gathering at the recently concluded Primates’ meeting I kept wondering whether we were the ones to whom John was writing. We have a glorious reputation – a worldwide communion of millions with a glorious history and beautiful heritage, fluid structures, grand cathedrals, “infallible” canons, historical ecclesiology and ‘flexible’ hermeneutics – but we are in danger of forgetting what we have received and heard and replacing it with the seemingly attractive gods and goddesses of our age. We are in danger of becoming the ‘living dead’ by giving the outward appearance of life but in reality we are no more than empty and ineffective vessels.…”

– Archbishop Peter Akinola reflects on last week’s Primates’ meeting.

See also An Open Letter from Archbishop Akinola to Archbishop Williams – at The American Anglican Council website –

“…In preparation for the meeting I asked The American Anglican Council to prepare the  attached report on the continuing situation of The Episcopal Church to enable people in the wider Communion to have a fuller perspective of the circumstances in North America. I shared it with my colleagues in the Global South but did not release it more widely in the hope that we would receive assurances from the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and the Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada that they were willing to exercise genuine restraint towards those Anglicans in North America unwilling to embrace their several innovations.

Sadly that did not prove to be the case.  Instead we were treated to presentations that sought to trivialize the situation and the consequences for those whose only offence is  their determination to hold on doggedly and truthfully to the faith once delivered to the saints.…”