http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/13812/
[Stand Firm] 1.07.08--At present, membership in the Anglican Communion is determined by and through the invitational decisions of the Archbishop. But his dithering failure to exercise his authority in accordance with Communion commitments and agreements (not to mention the Gospel) laid bare the insufficiency of his office as an instrument of unity. Now in Jerusalem a new confessionally based conciliar structure has arisen within the dying husk of the old. It does not threaten to usurp or unseat Canterbury. Rather it promises to produce a more effective, ordered, and authoritative Anglican instrument that will set Canterbury down into a role that is more accommodating to an emerging post-colonial global Communion. From the perspective of Canterbury, this represents a significant threat. He faces the prospect of gradual marginalization.
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