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Meanwhile, in the western suburbs of Chicago, I attended a Wednesday lunch meeting witha senior American Anglican leader
who said in essence that the time may soon come for orthodox Anglicans to create some kind of new global structure because of repeated failures of ABC Williams to hold “revisionists” accountable for proceeding with gay ordinations and same-sex rites and for advocating a host of other non-orthodox revisionist teachings.This leader who spoke at aninvitation-only event
anticipates creation of anew Anglican Province in North America
thatorthdox Anglican
leaders would recognize. These leaders would thencreate some kind of new global entity.
I know the main focus on the story is a conservative view of whether or not the coming schism is happening now. The undercurrent is clearly “IhopeIhopeIhopeIhope those un-Biblical, gay-ordaining, gay-consecrating, gay-marrying revisionist American Episcopalians get their church split away from them.”
But what really gets my goat is that these poachers were meeting in my diocese. Who was this leader? What was this invitation-only event? Where was it? Who paid for it? And who will run these snake-bellied rustlers off the home range, dangnabbit? Whah, Ah shore hope Bishop-Sheriff Lee saddles his own horse and gits on their gol-durn trail!
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Just … go. If you can’t handle the direction TEC is moving in faith, then follow your bliss / belief / leader and just leave. And, like those early disciples of Christ, shake the dust off your feet and stop worrying about what those other folk s are doing and just do it.
If it were to be done, ’twere best done quickly. And without trying to take the family silver along with you.
It’s fairly clear that the fondest wishes of the reactionaries in the church–to take the name of the Episcopal Church with them as they leave–will never be realized. As a fallback, they will try every trick in the book to take the property so they don’t have to do the hard work of fundraising and suffer the indignity of renting storefronts. Legal precedent has not been on their side, however, although it may be too much to expect TEC to win every case. With our without TEC property, Mark Harris believes the foundational meeting of a new denomination will be GAFCON, wherever it is held. Interesting that the schism will be at the Anglican Communion level and not merely TEC. It’s so much easier, dontcha know, since there’s no church hierarchy at that level to fight it.