GAFCON participants abide the bible

http://au.christiantoday.com/article/gafcon-participants-abide-the-bible/3834.htm

[Christianity Today Australian Edition] 5 Feb 2008--The Anglican Primate of Nigeria, the Most Reverend Peter Akinola, in a press conference, stated the formation of a separate conservative Anglican conference was due to some members within the Anglican family bringing ‘new principles’ to interpret the Scripture where modern culture had taken precedence over the word of God.

The underlying conflict among the Anglican family, said Rev. Akinola, was not homosexuality, but, rather it was the authority and interpretation of the Scripture. This was what separate members within the Anglican Communion, he continued. The ones who were going to attend the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) were those who abide by the bible while those attending the Lambeth were not paying attention to the Scripture, he said in the press conference.

In a pre-emptive move, Rev. Akinola stated Uganda, Rwanda, Sydney, and Nigeria would be boycotting the Lambeth Conference. This was later affirmed by the Sydney Anglican Archbishop, Dr. Peter Jensen, who in a press statement, expressed ‘regret’ in him, along with the other Sydney bishops, not attending the conference.

Dr. Jensen, in an interview with the Southern Cross Anglican publication, said the current Communion was divided over the critical issue of the gospel and biblical authority and that was why GAFCON was needed as the secular pressure increased.