Confessional Fellowship Will ‘Reassert Bible’s Authority’

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/7/1/confessional-fellowship-will-reassert-bibles-authority

[The Living Church] 3 Jul 2008--Three archbishops who participated in the recent Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in Jerusalem addressed hundreds of Church of England clergy July 1 about a newly formed network they assert will bring needed authority to the Anglican Communion.

“There are moments in the church where authority has to be taken, and this is one of those moments where the most senior people available have decided to come together to take their authority to do certain things which they have the capacity to do,” said Archbishop Peter Jensen of Sydney in remarks reported by the London Telegraph.

Archbishop Jensen, Archbishop Henry Orombi of Uganda and Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone denied that the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans was a plan to “seize power” within the church. The purpose of the group, the three said was to “reassert the authority of the Bible.”