Dear friends,
The need for Gafcon is increasingly clear. The Gospel is being lost throughout the Western world and Anglican Church leaders are becoming increasingly litigious towards churches who want to maintain their orthodox theology as expressed in the Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer.
Let’s start with the recent Royal Wedding. If nothing else, it was a celebration of “love”. The words of the prayer book were used expressing the biblical truth that marriage is between a man and a woman. Strangely, however, neither celebrant nor preacher believe that definition of marriage anymore and the preacher is busy removing people from their churches and suing them if they disagree with same-sex marriage and want to distance themselves from leaders who do. That doesn’t sound loving does it?!
One classic example from a decade ago is that of Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghamton, NY. They could no longer agree with their diocese’s unbiblical stance on marriage and decided to leave the diocese and join a Gafcon group. The diocese repossessed their building through the courts but the congregation offered to buy it back at market rates so they could keep meeting. The diocese refused to sell it to them and instead sold it to a Muslim Outreach Centre for one-third of what the Church offered and added a caveat in the contract saying it could never be sold to the church again.
This same story is being repeated throughout the USA right now under the power and authority of the loving, powerful wedding preacher. He is suing congregations out of their buildings because they no longer want to accept the authority of those who deny biblical truth.
What is even more devastating is that the wedding preacher and his church are currently in a three year exclusion from International Anglican affairs as a disciplinary measure for their unbiblical stance on marriage and their open acceptance of actively homosexual clergy. But don’t worry about that, we will invite their most senior leader to preach at the world’s biggest Anglican event this year. It’s a farce.
The spread of this litigious liberal theology in aggressive pursuit of marriage equality in the Anglican Church is continuing – most recently in Scotland and New Zealand. There are rumblings of it on our own shores.
Anglicans wanting to stick to the bible need a place to call home. That place is Gafcon.
Prayerfully
Nigel