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This is causing much local comment, and I thought might be of interest here also: Letter to Australia’s bishops
Small world, gordon!
That would be my view as well. If they're consecrating a Missionary Bishop to Europe, in contravention of the existing Churches and Episcopate in those territories, in concert with the ACNA... then they'd be acting in a manner that suggests they're no longer in communion with those churches or territorial Bishops (including the Archbishop of Canterbury). If they're not in communion with Canterbury, IMO they've repudiated the Anglican Communion in favor of the ACNA/GAFCON (which has itself effectively done the same thing vis-a-vis the AC by pushing for this Missionary Bishop to Europe in the first place).Have not Bishops Davies and Condie overstepped their bounds? Perhaps I see it wrongly, but being in communion seems to me to be a matter for the broader church as opposed to the opinion of a few Bishops.
Not all evangelicals are of the Sydney flavour. I can think of evangelicals who've been very supportive of the ordination of women, for example (Leon Morris comes to mind). It's a particular type of evangelicalism which is being pushed by Sydney and folks like Bishop Condie.
And it's worth noting - in case those here in continuing Anglican bodies think Sydney is some sort of champion of Anglican orthodoxy here - that Sydney doesn't really care about normative Anglican practice in all kinds of ways. Deacons routinely (if illegally) preside at the Eucharist in that diocese, as just one example.
Well said!Member Churches of the Anglican Communion
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Global Movement | GAFCON
Sadly I have to say, I find this impossibly frustrating, and I have no idea what the answer is. It is not about good people and bad people, it is not about those who hear Christ and those who do not, it is about the reality that Anglicans have stopped listening to each other. By the way I know these lists won't be all up to date as that would be a full time job for a team of workers. There remains for me something immensely beautiful about Anglican diversity and generosity of inclusion, about grace and order, and it seems somehow we are throwing it all away.
Let us cherish the tradition which has nurtured us.