Nigerian Archbishop Signals No Compromise with Western Anglicans promoting 'Another Gospel' [VirtueO

Nigerian Archbishop Signals No Compromise with Western Anglicans promoting 'Another Gospel'




Nigerian Archbishop Signals No Compromise with Western Anglicans promoting 'Another Gospel'
Western church is engaged in 'ideological slavery' promoting teachings to overturn Bible and offer a false gospel

By David W. Virtue DD
www.virtueonline.org
October 31, 2016

The Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, blasted the presence of Episcopal Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's appearance in Rome with the Archbishop of Canterbury's delegation to meet the pope, when he was told specifically that he should not be involved in representing the Anglican Communion in ecumenical or interfaith relations.

"This incident is just the most recent of many failures which the Cairo Communique describes as 'the inability of the existing Communion instruments to discern truth from error and take binding ecclesiastical action'. We need alternatives. GAFCON already has its five yearly conference and its Primates' Council which provide ways for the Communion to relate on the solid basis of the shared doctrinal commitments of the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration, and I was greatly encouraged by the willingness of those of us gathered in Cairo to work together and not be divided by culture, personality clashes or secondary issues," said Okoh in his monthly GAFCON pastoral letter.

The evangelical African Primate of the largest province in the Anglican Communion, said it is increasingly clear that the Church of England is becoming the place where pressure for compromise has become most intense and he is encouraged that 88 evangelical Anglicans leaders from varied backgrounds have come together this month to sign an open letter to the English House of Bishops calling on them 'not to depart from the apostolic inheritance with which they have been entrusted'.

The Archbishop called on these leaders in the Church of England, the Mother Church of our Communion, to have courage and unity at this critical time.

The Nigerian primate commended Global South Chairman, Bishop Mouneer Anis, for his bold warning about the 'ideological slavery' which some Western Churches seek to impose on the Global South by using their money and influence to promote teachings which overturn the bible and offer a false gospel.

"I believe we see victory in our spiritual battle for a faithful Church when the orthodox are willing not only to stand, but also to stand together as we experienced in Cairo despite many cultural and historical differences. The Anglican Church in North America came about as a new province because of a willingness to surrender narrow ambitions for the sake of a wider cause and there is a lesson here in godly unity throughout our movement."


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Christianity in some parts of Africa is only a few centuries old and is full of energy and evangelical zeal. We in the west who pride ourselves on our multifaceted history can learn much from the African church. Of course also in some parts of Africa the faith is very ancient

 

Africa has done so much in the past for Christianity. St Augustine was from North Africa and his works influence the Reformation. And he defended the Church from heresy....even correcting a Pope's faulty theology.

Let us pray the Africans against successfully defend Christianity from the heretics.

Blessings

Fr. Mark

 

Excellent point Friday. Mark! I would add to it St. Athanasius from Alexandria, Egypt. He more than any other saint in history I would argue saved the Church from a damnable descent into heresy which for a time even infected the See of Rome. Even when he was banished and disgraced he would not compromise on Catholic orthodoxy. one of my favorite quota is this:


"What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ...
"You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day.


"Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."

(Letter of St. Athanasius to his Flock)

God bless Sts Athanasius and Augustine, ando God bless Africa!

 

...what would be the condition of Christianity without the great African saint Athanasius?...