GAFCON Chairman Launches FCA, Rips "Cultural Captivity" of North American Anglican Churches [VirtueO

GAFCON Chairman Launches FCA, Rips "Cultural Captivity" of North American Anglican Churches



MELBOURNE: GAFCON Chairman Launches FCA, Rips "Cultural Captivity" of North American Anglican Churches

Crisis developing in the Church of England, says Kenyan Anglican Archbishop
FCA is instrument of renewal
Freeing churches involves contending for the gospel...even challenging ungodly leadership where necessary, says African Primate

By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
March 30, 2015

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus Hebrews 12:1, 2.

GAFCON Chairman and Kenyan Anglican Archbishop Eliud Wabukala blasted the "cultural captivity" of the established Anglican Churches in North America in an address at the launching of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans in Melbourne, Australia.

Things have become so bad that a fundamental realignment of the Anglican Communion was necessary, the evangelical African Primate told several hundred orthodox Australian Anglicans gathered at the launching.

"Now we are seeing the same struggle developing in the Church of England, the Mother Church of the Communion itself, and the most recent sign of this is the crisis developing after a parish church in central London was made available for a Muslim prayer service earlier this month. The vicar not only joined in, but also covered up the cross and other Christian symbols in the church. Here we have a warning that controversies about gender and sexuality reflect a deeper problem. Now we are seeing the core Christian commitment to the uniqueness of Jesus as Lord and Savior is being called into question," opined the GAFCON leader.

(The Rev. Giles Goddard, vicar of St John's Waterloo in Southwark Diocese, later issued an apology for any offence caused, but not for the action itself.)

The GFCA had its debut in 2008 when moral compromise, doctrinal error and the collapse of biblical witness in parts of the Anglican communion had reached such a level that the leaders of the majority of the world's Anglicans felt it was necessary to take a united stand for truth. More than 1,000 witnesses, including Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, clergy and lay leaders gathered in Jerusalem for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). The goal was to help reform, heal and revitalize the Anglican Communion and expand its mission to the world.

The Kenyan primate noted the initiative to launch the FCA would be seen by future generations as a strategic moment for church and society.

"These words remind us that at the heart of the GAFCON movement of which we are part is a passion for the biblical gospel. Lost people are precious to the Lord Jesus Christ and cannot be seen as anything less than that by us.

"It is for this reason that we acclaimed the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration at the close of our first Global Anglican Future Conference in 2008. It is a rallying point for contemporary Anglican orthodoxy and it concluded with a visionary statement of purpose in which we declared that 'The primary reason we have come to Jerusalem and issued this declaration is to free our churches to give clear and certain witness to Jesus Christ.' Freeing our churches involves contending for the gospel as well as promoting the gospel, even challenging ungodly leadership where necessary, and we do this not because we want to be awkward or divisive, but because lost souls are precious to Jesus and we must not be silent or inactive when they are put in danger by confusion, compromise and false teaching."


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