It is obvious to everyone that the ACNA brought extremely diverse groups together under one tent based on our common disgust and grief at what the Episcopal Church has become.
Read moreI have almost always thought that it all ended for Christians in heaven: you die, you go to heaven. But the Bible doesn't teach this. This is not a bad hope, but it's so much less than what God really has planned for us. When Christians die they go to heaven - "today you will be with me in paradise," Jesus told the thief on the cross.
Read moreThe Jerusalem Declaration
29th June 2008
The participants in the first Global Anglican Future Conference met in the land of Jesus' birth. They expressed their:
i loyalty as disciples to the King of kings, the Lord Jesus;
ii joyful embrace of his command to proclaim the reality of his kingdom which he first announced in this land;
Read moreWe often hear it taught that Christ prayed for unity above everything else, so we should strive for unity at any cost. We are hearing this now as we face a fractured Anglican Communion with divided views on identity and sexuality. 'Disagreement is a bad witness to the world. Why can't evangelicals lay differences aside?' Are evangelicals wrong to stand for apostolic truth, at the potential cost of separation, even fragmentation?
Read moreThe test of true Anglicanism, that is Reformed Catholicism, is a Confessional matter: Adherence to Holy Scripture, testimony in accord with Scripture [the Word of God], faithful witness to Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer, the salvaging of the human soul through divine grace alone, by faith alone [Augustinianism, as resurgent and clarified in the Protestant Reformation], accurate and earnest proclamation to every sinner within sound of the precious message of the mercy of God, and profound r
Read moreArchbishop Cranmer is the lesser-known of the sixteenth century reformers but, as recent scholarship has shown, he was a first-class thinker alongside the best minds of the Protestant Reformation. Comparatively, he shied from the limelight and he never relished the hand-to-hand combat with the popes and potentates that seems to fuel some of the other reformers.
Read moreBy the end of the 1948 war, the dispossessed Palestinians numbered over 750,000. Most people in the West were not aware of this side of the tragedy. The Palestinian Arabs were largely invisible to the eyes of the West. They were overshadowed by the victims of the Holocaust, whose plight received greater significance and publicity.[2]
Read moreFeminist scholars discovered feminist Jesus. Many Black pastors see Jesus like Moses, freeing the slaves. Social justice advocates, like Shane Claiborne, create Social Reformer Jesus,[3] campaigning against the death penalty. There is LGBTQ-friendly Jesus. More recently, we've seen American Revolutionary Jesus, who carries a gun on his sash and is more concerned about losing his rights than winning the lost.
Read moreHowever, Anglicanism rests on theological assertions that are decidedly Protestant and based on an authentic catholicity.
There is no via media between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
Diarmaid MacCulloch writes:
Read moreWith regard to the first, McIlvaine rejoiced that a "great increase of attention to the salvation of the soul" had appeared in the parish, that many members had taken an interest in prayer, and that some professed "to have been recently led to Christ, and to have obtained peace through the blood of His Cross."
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