Even as TEC slowly withers on the vine (some 45 percent of parishes are without a full time priest and two thirds of its congregations are made up of middle age women who have about as much interest in Africa except as a tourist destination or ISIS has in winning Tasmania for Allah), Episcopal leaders are hell bent on sodomizing Africa in the name of a revisionist sexual god of their own devising.

During and since the 1990s Global South African leaders have pled repeatedly in one Primates meeting after another and in one communique after another that western pan Anglican archbishops and bishops should obey their calling to renounce and drive away all strange and erroneous doctrines. They have steadfastly refused to do that. In the name of Indaba, (a faux listening process set up in London and paid for by The Episcopal Church), and calls for generous orthodoxy and greater inclusivity, TEC leaders have adopted the stance that the best defense is an offense, even as all the indicators are that TEC will not be around as an institution 35 years from now.

The Episcopal Church, like the Church of England, is "on the margins of extinction", John Hayward wrote on the blog of the Church Growth Modelling project. He says that things are even worse for The Episcopal Church. TEC will be officially dead by 2055, but before then, from now until 2025, we will see massive church closures. Of all the western churches including the C of E, The Church in Wales, The Scottish Episcopal Church, The Episcopal Church has the faster rate of decline. He didn't mention the Anglican Church of Canada, which is declining even faster than the Episcopal Church. It is in fact numerically smaller now than the Anglican Church in North America that is at least one third bigger in average Sunday attendance.

This compares to Africa and other parts of the world where the church is healthy. "In the West it is sick. The question is -- is the Anglican sickness unto death?" he asks.

Unlike the Church of England which has a strong, vibrant evangelical (and charismatic) wing, The Episcopal Church has no such wing with most of its evangelicals having left to form the Anglican Church in North America. (Recently the Diocese of Central Florida, an evangelical diocese, rolled over recognizing the validity of gay partnered men) thus reducing the number of evangelical and catholic dioceses to the fingers of one hand.

Hayward argues that it is beliefs, not actions that are the source of the problem. "When congregations ask for my advice on why they decline I first ask them what they believe, not what they do. Actions follow from beliefs."

So why is TEC, which still has pots of "mission" money despite millions spent on lawsuits, willing to put money into pushing its pansexual agenda into Africa?

First. In a very real sense it has to because of its multiple general convention resolutions pushing the sexual envelope from one degree of sexual acceptance to the next over several decades. First came homosexuality and lesbianism, then bisexuality and transgendered; then it simply became an alphabet soup of sexualities -- LGBTQI -- (more can be expected).

From lay gays like Louie Crew, the pansexual agenda moved through the ranks to clergy and then to bishops resulting in Gene Robinson becoming its first openly and publicly ordained homogenital bishop. That he was later lifted to the rarified air of political recognition only added to TEC's standing in the US and a changing affirmative gay culture.

Oddly enough, the elevation of Robinson did not result in the ranks of parishes expanding; it did the opposite. Since he took office as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, the Episcopal Church has lost 200,000 ASA across the country.

Second. It is TEC's belief that Africa is still a backward continent that has not caught up to a post-modern 21st Century and needs to be "re-educated" on sexuality issues in order for enlightenment to be obtained.

The West believes in sexual rights for gays and lesbians therefore any right-minded African bishop should just get on board. The Africans have steadfastly refused for a number of reasons, primarily because Scripture prohibits sexual activity outside of marriage between a man and a woman, and secondly, because it is not part of their culture, something the President of Kenya had to remind the President of the United States on a recent visit to his country.

Third. Sexual imperialism. It is ironic that Western missionaries brought the gospel to Africa with a biblical view of human sexuality, inviting Africans caught up in the world of animism and polygamy to accept a Christian worldview on sexuality. Now the West is telling these same Africans that they must depart from Scriptural sexual standards to accept views once held by animists and possibly polygamists (the US Supreme Court has made that possible) and to which TEC will no doubt follow.

Fourth. TEC's sexual world view on homosexuality is at complete odds with Islam, a religion that eschews sodomy -- and will kill those caught in or known to practice homosexuality, even though Islam allows polygamy.

African Anglican Christians (mostly evangelical) have been slaughtered for their faith while Muslim extremists have screamed at them that they are tied to Western Anglicanism that has accepted homosexuality. Where is the win for them? The answer of course is there isn't one.

African Anglicans already feeling the sting and pain of persecution for their faith now find an added dimension -- namely that they have been tied to the West on homosexuality and gay marriage causing them double pain.

It is one thing to die for Jesus by having your throat slit by Muslim madmen; it is quite another dying because Western pansexualists have attempted to change a fundamental creation ordinance in the name of a false inclusivity and a god of their own creation. Africans must now pay the price for that.

GAFCON, and the Primates of the Global South have made it clear that they will never compromise. Efforts by TEC to push and promote this behavior on African soil will only harden the lines and result in a formal break somewhere down the line. For the moment, that is not going to happen even with a Nigerian bishop now heading the Anglican Communion office in London.

The four horsemen of the African Anglican apocalypse: archbishops Nicholas Okoh, (Nigeria); Eliud Wabukala, (Kenya); Onesphore Rwaje, (Rwanda); and Stanley Ntagali (Uganda) are steadfast and will never be moved. Never. They are prepared to discipline those bishops in their provinces who dare entertain the Episcopal Church's sexual storm troopers in the form of "theologians", "inclusivists" and aggrieved pansexualists who appear in their provinces promoting unbiblical sexual behavior.

The die has been cast. There is no going back. The torn fabric of the Communion remains torn. There is no time now or in the foreseeable future that the primates will gather together if Archbishop Justin Welby calls them. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (and her successor based on his voting record) and archbishops' Fred Hiltz (Canada) and Barry Morgan (Wales) have killed that possibility forever.

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