The evangelical bishop, a leading conservative among Global South Anglican Primates, said in his letter that the status of the Anglican Church in Egypt has been one of independence since 1839 and his church had no wish to be under the authority of another organization.
Read moreIt's as if Episcopal Church leaders had stood in front of statues of Cranmer, Hooker, Ryle and many other orthodox bishops, tied ropes around their necks and hauled them down, stamped and spat on them and then kicked them to the curb of history.
Read moreMission is never fully defined, (it certainly has nothing to do with evangelism, discipleship or church growth); at its heart it means a lot of vacuous talk about saving the world for God, endless talk of racism, unnumbered social justice issues from UN resolutions to transgenderism and sodomy, while grabbing, or holding on to properties they believe are theirs for future generations -- generations that are currently dwindling, and in time will cease to exist, never to see the inside of an Ep
Read more"Because we refuse to tell people God's truth, refuse to reveal to people God's holy expectations, in the name of love, we are deceiving people into thinking that 'living in sin' is ok with the Almighty. It is not.
Read moreVOL: Have baby-sitting available and children's Sunday School. Not a difficult solution.
CT: What happens when a non-standard couple -- living together without being married, for instance -- arrives?
VOL: Invite them in but say Communion is not open to them. It would damage their souls if they participated. It is for their good, not ours.
CT: What happens if they're gay?
Read moreOn the other hand, his increasingly pro-homosexual stance in the name of "radical new inclusion" is finding himself more closely aligned to western pansexual provinces.
Read moreAnd then he said this:
"...in the poorest parts of the country, we are withdrawing the preachers. The harvest is rich, but the labourers have been re-deployed to wealthier areas. We are seeing the slow and steady withdrawal of church life from those communities where the poorest people in our nation live.
From this position, he went on to become the twelfth Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina. He began his episcopacy as co-adjutor of the diocese, then became its diocesan in 1982. He retired in 1990, but remained very active in preaching, speaking, and writing. He remains a tour de force of low church orthodox Anglicanism with no equals.
Read moreBy overwhelming majorities in both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, the Episcopal Church scored an historic first, brokering transsexualism into church law. With the passage of the "transgender twins," resolutions D019 and D002, it's now against church law to exclude people who have had sex-changes from the life of the church at any level. America and the world anxiously awaits the Episcopal Church to ordain its first ever "trans" bishop.
Read moreDuring the 1990s, average Sunday attendance was relatively stable, but from around 2000, serious decline set in. This has continued and TEC's average Sunday attendance dropped by nearly one third between 2000 and 2015, from 857,000 in 2000 to 579,780 by 2015. While there is some regional variation, substantial decline has been happening across the country.
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