That might be theirs and TEC's last hurrah. Consider this.

A Church of England archdeacon (the equivalent of a TEC Suffragan Bishop) from London, who has the ear of the Archbishop of Canterbury, told an American audience of evangelical Episcopalians at Virginia Theological Seminary that The Episcopal Church has caused the greatest spiritual catastrophe since the Reformation and that the tear in the fabric of the Anglican Communion is near terminal.

Anglican Mission in the Americas Bishop Chuck Murphy wrote VOL saying, "In addition to being a complete victory for all of us here at All Saints, Pawleys Island, it is a profoundly important legal decision repudiating the "authority" of the Dennis Canon. I believe that this will have enormous implications not only for the two Episcopal dioceses in South Carolina, but, I suspect, for other churches throughout the U.S.A."

"You have no mandate to remain in The Episcopal Church and simply fade into the background, keeping your head down, avoiding controversy, and preaching a scaled down gospel for our very sick and resistant cultures."

Lawson said that reformation, revival and renewal are the pathway towards an Evangelical future. "Episcopal Evangelicals are some of the most strategic people in the world."

Fr. Ashey explained that ACNA's focus is to reach North America with the transforming love of Jesus Christ, and with the help of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which was originally conceived through last summer's GACFON meeting for the "benefit of the church and the furtherance of its mission".

"We must move ahead together. But there is one situation where we are in danger of leaving Anglicans behind," the AAC priest lamented. "This is the situation we are in..."