Saturday, July 19, 2008

A RESPONSE of the GAFCON Theological Resource Team to the St Andrews Draft Text of An Anglican Covenant

http://www.gafcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=31

[GAFCON] 19 July 2008--The idea of a Covenant as a way out of the difficulties in which the Anglican Communion finds itself has been proposed in several quarters. The St Andrews Draft Text of An Anglican Covenant is one such attempt. The GAFCON Theological Resource Team reviewed the St Andrews Draft Text during pre-conference preparations in Jerusalem on 20th and 21st June 2008.

An Anglican Covenant was intended as a response to a crisis in the Anglican Communion which has been accurately described as ‘a rending of the Communion at the deepest level’. Determined departures from the teaching of Scripture on human sexuality by The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada are the immediate cause this situation. There appears no prospect of repentance from this repudiation of biblical authority on the part of either of these bodies (or from those elsewhere who have followed their lead in endorsing behaviour which Scripture explicitly forbids). Underlying these actions is a long history of marginalising, avoiding and at last rejecting the plain teaching of the Bible. In other words, the issue which we should expect this covenant to address is one of apostasy.

Related Document:
http://www.gafcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=31
Changes between the Nassau and St Andrew's Drafts of an Anglican Covenant - GAFCON

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