GAFCON Jerusalem Report Consultation, 1st July 2008
Orthodoxy & Effective Mission : Archbishop Henry Orombi
Orthodoxy & Global Connections : Archbishop Greg Venables
Orthodoxy & Personal Experience : Dr Jim Packer
Questions to the Panel – Henry Orombi, Peter Jensen, Greg Venables & Jim Packer
More photos of All Souls
Audio recordings of the presentations made at the Global Anglican Futures Conference in Jerusalem. (the videos are accessible here)
1. Welcome Address: Archbishop Akinola
2. Opening Sermon: Archbishop Orombi
3. The Gospel and Secularism: Dr Os Guiness
4. The Nature and Future of the Anglican Communion: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
5. The Gospel and Religion: Professor Lamin Sanneh
6. Genesis 12: The Promise of God: Archbishop Akrofi
7. Exodus 24: The Presence of God: Revd David Short
8. 2 Samuel 1:1-17: The King of God: Revd Vaughan Roberts
10. Closing Sermon: Jesus Christ is Lord: Archbishop Venables
Photos taken at GAFCON may be viewed here
NEAC 2008 is being held at All Souls, Langham Place, London, on Saturday November 15th from 10am to 4.30pm. Booking is essential here
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AGENDA for the day
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10.00am
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Registration and coffee. |
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11.00am
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Welcome, prayer and Bible reading given by the Revd Paul Perkin, Vicar of St Mark’s, Battersea Rise. |
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11.45am
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“I was there” – the Bishop of Birkenhead, the Rt Revd Keith Sinclair reflects on the two conferences. |
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12.15am
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Keynote address: The Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester. |
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1.00pm
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Lunch. |
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“How do we move on from here?” – Canon Dr Christina Baxter, Principal of St John’s; the Rt Revd Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesdon; the Revd Mike Ovey, Principal of Oak Hill College, and the Revd Canon Chris Sugden, Anglican Mainstream set out their perspectives on ‘Shaping The Future.’ |
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4.00pm
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Final Address by the Revd Dr Richard Turnbull. |
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Consultation ends. |
The History of GAFCON
Christ Church, Virginia Water Pass Resolutions on the Jerusalem Declaration
Hollow Men, Lambeth 2008. What Happened and Why
Former Pittsburgh bishop warns Church of England
Fellowship Broken: Statement made at City of London DEF
In Solidarity with Orthodox Vancouver Anglicans
Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) and TEC
The Jerusalem Declaration: Why Anglican Churches should endorse it
GAFCON and the Future of the Church of England
Anglican leaders offer support for Bishop Bob Duncan
10 Reasons Why Now Is the Time to Realign
Statement by the Primates’ Council of GAFCON
Comment From Bishop of Birkenhead on TEC Decisio
Screwtape Proposes an Episcopal Toast
The Future of the Church of England
Anglican Archbishops and Bishops in Solidarity
GAFCON and the Future of the Church of England
GAFCON, the future and the Jerusalem Statement
“The Church cannot heal this crisis of betrayal”
Anglican Pastoral Forum: Lets play Happy Families
GAFCON, Boundary Crossing and the Councils of Nicea
GAFCON’s 40 million vs. Lambeth’s 5 million
Homosexual bishops face Anglican Church ban
150 Lambeth Bishops agree Robinson should resign
Chris Sugden explains: Why many bishops did not attend Lambeth
A New Traditional Anglican Province of North Ameria
The Great Commission or New Millennium Goals?
Conscience and logic: ‘I can do no other’
Gene Robinson should resign: Statement of the Sudan
Dr. James Packer Speaks Out on Homosexuality
Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion
GAFCON Archbishops Respond to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Evangelical Alliance Statement on GAFCON
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
11/3/2008
Progressive evangelicals in the Church of England simply don’t get it. They believe, falsely, that when they talk of the rich diversity of the Anglican Communion that they are dealing with men and women of basic good will. Herein lies the first fallacy.
The second fallacy is that all theologies and opinions, based on a misguided understanding of via media, can be reconciled within the communion and that the instruments of unity are capable of holding it together under the present Archbishop of Canterbury.
The third fallacy is that a Covenant will be written that will hold the communion together.
The fourth fallacy is that the present trajectory can somehow be reversed if the more (allegedly) strident right (now called Fundamentalists) can be made to see reason and agree to return and come under the diverse umbrella of Anglicanism.
Consider then the essay by the Rev. Dr. Andrew Goddard, Tutor in Christian Ethics at Trinity College, Bristol, England, and a member of the Leadership Team of Fulcrum – a liberal evangelical blog.
In a well articulated, even brilliant essay on the current crisis in the Anglican Communion Goddard offers four challenges and poses four questions, post Lambeth.
1. Are the developments in North America acceptable within the life of the Communion?
2. If not, has the Communion, through its Instruments, done sufficient to respond to these developments?
3. If not, are there signs that the Communion is now capable of responding?
4. If not, what form of realignment is necessary and what is the role of GAFCON in this?
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STATEMENT ON THE GLOBAL ANGLICAN FUTURE
Praise the LORD!
It is good to sing praises to our God; for he is gracious, and a song of praise is fitting.
The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. (Psalm 147:1-2)
Brothers and Sisters in Christ: We, the participants in the Global Anglican Future Conference, send you greetings from Jerusalem!
Introduction
The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), which was held in Jerusalem from 22-29 June 2008, is a spiritual movement to preserve and promote the truth and power of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ as we Anglicans have received it. The movement is global: it has mobilised Anglicans from around the world. We are Anglican: 1148 lay and clergy participants, including 291 bishops representing millions of faithful Anglican Christians. We cherish our Anglican heritage and the Anglican Communion and have no intention of departing from it. And we believe that, in God’s providence, Anglicanism has a bright future in obedience to our Lord’s Great Commission to make disciples of all nations and to build up the church on the foundation of biblical truth (Matthew 28:18-20; Ephesians 2:20).
GAFCON is not just a moment in time, but a movement in the Spirit, and we hereby:
The Global Anglican Context
The future of the Anglican Communion is but a piece of the wider scenario of opportunities and challenges for the gospel in 21st century global culture. We rejoice in the way God has opened doors for gospel mission among many peoples, but we grieve for the spiritual decline in the most economically developed nations, where the forces of militant secularism and pluralism are eating away the fabric of society and churches are compromised and enfeebled in their witness. The vacuum left by them is readily filled by other faiths and deceptive cults. To meet these challenges will require Christians to work together to understand and oppose these forces and to liberate those under their sway. It will entail the planting of new churches among unreached peoples and also committed action to restore authentic Christianity to compromised churches.
On 21st October 2008, Christ Church Council, Virginia Water, passed three resolutions in solidarity with GAFCON, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans and the Jerusalem Declaration.
To read the Jerusalem Declaration see here
October 14th, 2008
The Church of England Evangelical Council issued this statement to express support for Bishop Bob Duncan and the Diocese of Pittsburgh after their meeting on October 10th.
CEEC deplores the recent deposition of Bishop Bob Duncan and expresses full support for him and sends warm greetings and prayers to him, the Diocese of Pittsburgh and their new home in the province of the Southern Cone.
We endorse the following two statements from six diocesan bishops of the Church of England and Anglican Mainstream.
“We declare that we continue to believe that Bishop Bob is a bishop in the Church of God and a bishop in good standing in the Anglican Communion.”
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“It is with great sadness that we have learned of the recent vote of TEC House of Bishops to depose the Bishop of Pittsburgh for abandonment of communion. To take such action is hardly in the spirit of the reflections at this year’s Lambeth Conference or the Archbishop of Canterbury’s final presidential address.
“We see this vote as further evidence that The Episcopal Church in the USA in its formal decisions and structures ‘have denied the orthodox faith.’ As the Jerusalem Declaration on behalf of 1100 Anglican church leaders around the world said: ‘We reject the authority of those churches and leaders who have denied the orthodox faith in word or deed. We pray for them and call on them to repent and return to the Lord.’
“Anglicans who adhere to the orthodox faith will continue to welcome and receive the ministry of Bishop Bob Duncan as a faithful Bishop and wish him and the people of the Diocese of Pittsburgh the Lord’s blessing in their faithful witness to the gospel.”
The CEEC is holding a NEAC Consultation at All Soul’s Church on Saturday 15th November to consider GAFCON and the Jerusalem Declaration. See www.ceec.info
The Jerusalem Declaration was endorsed by the 1200 Archbishops, Bishops, clergy and laity attending the GAFCON pilgrimage to Jerusalem in June. While it is simply a restatement of Anglican orthodoxy, it is nevertheless probably the most important document to be formulated by Anglicans since the Reformation. In a couple of weeks our own Church Council, like many others, will be considering whether it can endorse the following resolution:
“Recognising that the Jerusalem Declaration is consistent with the doctrine of the Church of England as stated in Canon A5, we stand in solidarity with the Jerusalem Declaration and Statement on the Global Anglican Future.”
Here are five reasons why I believe every indivdual Anglican and every Anglican Church Council should do so:
1. This act of solidarity will encourage those especially of the Anglican Communion in the USA and Canada who are being deposed and persecuted for their gospel stand and commitment to the Scriptures. It is lamentable that so few evangelical Anglican Bishops, for example, have shown solidarity with Bishop Duncan of Pittsburgh recently deposed.
2. This act of solidarity will strengthen Anglicans in the Global South in countries such as Nigeria and Sudan who are being persecuted by Muslims because they are wrongly identified with the schismatic and immoral stance of The Episcopal Church in the USA and Canada.
3. Endorsing the Declaration in no way prejudices relationships with our Bishop, Diocese and the Church of England. Just the reverse – it is a restatement of the official teaching of the Church of England and demonstrates our fidelity.
4. Endorsing the Declaration demonstrates that we remain fully committed to the Church of England. We are not leaving, being schismatic or divisive. We are going to reform the Church of England from within. Endorsing the Declaration is a way of declaring our intent.
5. Expressing our solidarity with the Jerusalem Declaration does not commit us to any other decision or course of action. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans is precisely that – a fellowship of like-minded believers. We invite you to be a part of this growing fellowship.
“We stand in solidarity with the Jerusalem Declaration and Statement on the Global Anglican Future.”
Visit Anglican Mainstream to endorse the declaration as individuals and as Parochial Church Councils There is a separate petition for non-Anglicans
The full text of the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration