Primates form Council and Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans: a reflection

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/09/19/primates-form-council-and-fellowship-of-confessing-anglicans-a-reflection/

[Anglican Mainstream] 20 Sep 2008--At the end of August, at the request of the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem, leaders of over half the world’s church-going Anglicans, the Archbishops of Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and the Southern Cone of Latin America formed a Primates Council and issued a communiqué. This can be read at www.gafcon.org.

The GAFCON primates are dealing with a new phenomenon. Earlier statements of Anglican Identity were produced when people could make the same assumptions about the faith and working together. The world has changed. People no longer allow their identities to be defined by others. We live in a world not of empires as in the 1860’s but sovereign nation states and individual autonomy.