GAFCON Chairman’s Pastoral Letter, June 2015

Posted on June 25, 2015 
Filed under Anglican Communion, GAFCON

Archbishop Eliud WabukalaArchbishop Eliud Wabukala, Chairman of the GAFCON Primates’ Council, writes:

“My dear brothers and sisters,

Grace and peace to you in the name of our only Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

It is a strange thing that in the Church we can see both extraordinary strength and extraordinary weakness at the same time.

The strength of Christian faith has been revealed in a most profound way by members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston following the shooting of nine of its members during a bible study…

In contrast, there are too many examples in the Church of weakness in the face of the subtle challenges of cultural and financial pressure. In Africa we are still too dependent in our thinking on outside agencies. This makes us vulnerable to relationships designed to buy influence and damages the integrity of our witness, while in the more economically developed world there is too often a fear of being out of step with secular culture.

In this context I cannot avoid mentioning a very disturbing event in England…”

– Take the time to read it all, including a quote from Archbishop Peter Jensen at last week’s FCA meeting in Belfast.