Christian Clarity Review

excerpted from:VirtueOnline - News - GC2006 - COLUMBUS, OH: “An Impossible Moment”

During a two-and-a-half hour meeting that heard comments from nearly 70 bishops, deputies and others - including the Archbishop of York, a guest at the convention - it became painfully clear how difficult it will be for the convention to find agreement on legislation that could determine whether ECUSA remains part of the “official” Anglican fold.

“I think we’ve reached an impossible moment in holding it together,” said Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan, Moderator of the conservative Anglican Communion Network. Duncan cited Dr. N.T. Wright, the Church of England’s Bishop of Durham, who called on ECUSA in an essay published Wednesday to repent or face the alienation of the Anglican Communion. Wright was a member of the panel that produced the 2004 Windsor Report, which recommended steps for ECUSA to take help repair damage to Anglican relationships caused by its 2003 approval of actively gay bishop V. Gene Robinson and same-sex blessings.

Robinson himself told the hearing, “It seems to me that this debate is about one thing: do we recognize the mark of Christ and the Creator in the faces of the people of this communion?…Do we see Christ and are we courageous enough to acknowledge Christ in the lives and relationships of our gay and lesbian neighbors?…

“Our homosexual agenda is Jesus Christ. By the living Christ who has acted in my life I am convinced that I am not an abomination in the eyes of God…Let us say our prayers and stand up for right.”

AT SPECIFIC ISSUE in the hearing held by the Special Committee on the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion were four proposed resolutions that will form key parts of ECUSA’s response to the global church, and particularly to the 2004 Windsor Report; it called (among other things) for ECUSA to make a certain statement of regret for its 2003 actions and implement moratoria on the consecration or public blessing of same-sex unions. The resolutions under consideration were:

*A160, which would have the convention express its “deep regret for the pain that others have experienced” over the 2003 General Convention decision to approve Robinson’s consecration and same-sex blessings, and offer “repentance for having breached bonds of affection” in the Communion “by any failure to consult adequately with our Anglican partners before taking these actions”;

*A161, which urges the exercise of “very considerable caution” in electing and consecrating bishops “whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church”;

*A162, which would eschew the authorization of public rites of blessing for same-sex unions but maintain “a breadth of private responses to situations of individual pastoral care” for homosexuals in the church; and

*A163, which backs the House of Bishops’ DEPO (Delegated Episcopal pastoral Oversight) plan for use “when necessary” for those unable “to receive appropriate pastoral care” from their own bishops.

The opening prayer of the hearing was led by committee member Rev. Sandye Wilson. In repudiation of the Augustinian separation between the City of God and the City of Man, Wilson petitioned for a church “affirming the beauty of diversity…denying the separation between secular and sacred, the world and church.”

Obviously the ECUSA is apostate and has been so for some time.

What is plain is that the ‘orthodox’ among the Episcopalians, even when they object to homosexual pastors, etc are NOT objecting to homosexuality in society in general and, plainly mean to leave an organization intact –even if they divest themselves from such an organization or cut it off from being legitimately Episcopalian — that is both inimical to Jesus Christ/Word of God and to leave it intact and whole on the American and world landscape rather than destroying it as is commanded by God.

So while the ECUSA wrings its hands over ‘whether or not to sever the Communion’ what it never even considers is that the very Word of God the conservatives say they must follow is not being followed.

Lev 20:13 And if a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Trying to ‘go back’ to a conservatism that has had it’s butt handed to it by Satan over and over is not ‘compassion’, ‘godly’ or walking humbly with GOD as opposed to man.

Micah 6:7,8 Will Jehovah take pleasure in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good: and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man bringeth a snare; but whoso putteth his confidence in Jehovah is protected.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen