Church Society Council endorses Jerusalem Declaration

Posted on September 15, 2008 
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Church Society logoPress Release from Church Society
15 September 2008

At its recent meeting the Council of Church Society endorsed the fourteen point Jerusalem Declaration produced at the Global Anglican Futures Conference (GAFCON) in June.

The Council welcomed the attempt by GAFCON to respond to the false teaching that has engulfed parts of the Anglican Communion.  They were also pleased that the Declaration upholds the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion “as containing the true doctrine of the Church agreeing with God’s Word and as authoritative for Anglicans today”.

The Articles are a clear statement of Reformed Protestant doctrine and a standard for the teaching of clergy and for discipline.  They must be understood in their plain historical sense.  As such they affirm, and we affirm, that salvation is only to be found through faith in Christ Jesus, and that the Church has no authority to teach or establish anything that is contrary to Scripture.  The Articles likewise deny unbiblical inventions such as transubstantiation and that Christian ministers are priests who may ‘offer Christ’ for the living and the dead.

Our hope and our prayer is that with a clear commitment to the doctrinal standard of Anglicanism the partners in GAFCON will help provinces to resist the doctrinal corruption that has infected many western churches and bring fresh impetus to the attempts to reform such churches under the Word of God.

– from Church Society.