In a recent pastoral letter, Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya and Chairman of the GAFCON Primates Council said:
My experience of this new wineskin in North America brought home to me just how much is at stake when the Primates of the Communion meet in Canterbury at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury next January. I believe this will be an historic meeting unlike anything that has gone before. There is now a shared realisation that the time for dialogue is over and there must be a decision that will settle the future direction of the Communion and free us from being dragged down by controversy and confusion.
The Anglican Church of Canada has set up a Commission consisting of theologians, bishops and laity to initiate a broad consultation on how to interpret “the time for dialogue is over” in the light of cultural context while leaving a generous space for deep disagreement. And even mutual criticism.
We all understand, of course, that the one thing it cannot mean is that there really will be no more dialogue because dialogue is all that is left in Western Anglicanism.
Preliminary findings of the Commission lean towards the Post-Modernist Redaction hermeneutic, where “is over” is a later addition caused by cosmic ray induced bit errors in the memory hosting the original document. The reading should be: “the time for dialogue!”
The Commission will recommend a conscience clause for clergy who wish to exercise the deeply unAnglican option of shutting up.
We didn’t know then (11 years ago) that our M1S RAM was so susceptible to cosmic ray induced bit errors. We did know that we had to leave our much loved church, in spite of the pain. And pain there was and is, bit errors and all.
‘It is written, “In the beginning was The WORD”.
Even now I balk.
Can no one help?
I truly cannot rate The WORD so high.
I must translate it otherwise.’
Dr. Faust, 97, Goethe
The fact that the ABC called in apostate Michael Ingham about a year ago to review the problems within the Communion clearly shows where he stands on the issues. I sincerely pray that at the upcoming meeting the GAFCON and orthodox Anglican Church in North America will stand for the Gospel and that the ABC will have the courage to demand the ACoC and the TEC to return to the Gospel or be expelled from the Communion. However, the statements by the ABC clearly indicate he will side with apostasy.