The International Director of The Barnabas Fund an interdenominational Christian aid agency that supports Christians who face discrimination and persecution as a consequence of their faith, told VOL that GAFCON leaders need to step up to the plate and assume leadership roles in developing policies and strategies without the influence from the Western agenda. "The first issue for GAFCON if it is to be truly global is that it must be representative of two thirds world Christians.
Read moreBy contrast, Archbishop Justin Welby, the head of the Anglican Communion said in a video address to some 1350 GAFCON delegates here that sexuality is contextual. "In the same way that different churches have to respond to war or corruption, so too do they have to adapt to changing attitudes towards homosexual sex and gay marriage, which is enthusiastically endorsed in England.
Read moreFurthermore, they see the intrusion of Western pansexual Anglicanism as a serious threat to their faith and morals that they don't want their children to imbibe.
Read moreThe archbishop said the threat of violence from Islamic extremism is not nearly as dangerous as the rot pushed by liberals from the West that is tearing at the fabric of the Communion. "This is a much more insidious process by which weak churches are gradually being taken captive by the surrounding culture."
Read moreOne priest, who experienced the devastation the gay lobby did to his church, says the whole subject is just Gnosticism redressed in modern garb with a dash of compassion to make gays feel good about what they do.
Other challenges are that Welby just doesn't get the fact that this is spiritual warfare and that Global South leaders are not going to cave into him and his flawed position on sexuality.
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Read moreOrganizers say the movement has grown considerably since the first conference in Jerusalem in 2008. Some 30 archbishops and 300 bishops are in attendance here, with the largest contingent 450 from Nigeria which has more than 18 million practicing Anglicans.
The evangelically driven Welby said, "We want a world won for Christ. We should be those who worship witness, mission and evangelize as our aims and passion and we must be wise and full of the Holy Spirit."
Read moreSo, after a lackluster leadership (he departed nine years before he had to), he now wants the church to raise the white flag of surrender to the most virulent lobby in the history of the church -- namely the gay lobby - a lobby that outshines women for bishops, lobbies for the poor, lobbies for the Prayer Book, lobbies for the disenfranchised et al.
Read moreVOL: Of the Five Marks of Mission, the first two "marks" to proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom; And to teach, baptize and nurture new believers is ignored by The Episcopal Church. Only the last three are observed.
Read moreIt's hard to fathom, even by our standards of non-compliance with the Other Side, what a marvelous catch this John Shelby Spong fellow has turned out to be.
Read moreTheir minister met with Fr. Don, now an Anglican priest in the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), which reports to the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion. CANA is a constituent member of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Their new bishop is the Rt. Rev. Julian Dobbs.
"We were thrilled beyond words," Helmandollar told VOL. "God has come through. The Diocese of Connecticut might have written us off and forgotten about us, but God did not."
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