The former Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables says the Anglican Communion is under the judgment and wrath of God with a significant group of Primates suppressing the truth.
Venables, who is now the Bishop of Argentina and Northern Argentina since stepping down as archbishop, stated the vast majority of Anglican leaders want to get on with preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ with a message of hope, love and forgiveness.
Addressing the crisis in the Anglican Communion on Anglican-TV, the English-born and educated bishop opined that the Anglican Communion has hit a problem because there is a significant group dominating the public life of the church and suppressing the truth St. Paul talks about in Roman's Ch. 1. "The reason we feel its urgency is because it is clearer than ever that we are under the wrath of God."
Venables cited the late Archbishop Michael Ramsey who said that there was one place we could all engage with God on the world situation, which is under His judgment. "It was a shocking thing to say at that time. In the West, we have turned our back on God and it is now where we see His judgment."
"We are under the wrath of God and and we need to preach the gospel into that situation. People have chosen to go down the path of human wisdom where they seek self satisfaction. They delight in wickedness, in things that God has forbidden. We have become darkened in our thinking...this is the whole situation in the Anglican Communion. It is what we have been grappling with over the past 15 years and many primates have become darkened and confused. We found ourselves talking from completely different perspectives."
Venables commented that the Anglican Communion is under God's judgment. "We have suppressed the truth and we are all guilty but the gospel has to be preached. We [the Anglican Communion] cannot go on as though nothing has happened."
Addressing the recent Dublin meeting where a third of the worlds' Primates were absent, Venables stated that the orthodox primates didn't want to go because of a lack of trust and because the communion is not going anywhere.
"A small group of primates are pressing a false gospel. The sad thing is that for years we have been trying to get it right. In Dublin the crisis was put to one side, the urgency had gone. The primates just sat and talked. But when the house is on fire you do something about it."
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3 comments:
Bp Venables is right. But how long will God put up with this? The wrath of God is real but many do not really believe it.
The modern "Anglicans" are following down a prim rose path. They preach that God is Love, and He most certainly is, but they don't think that He would do as He promised. All one has to do is believe in Jesus Christ and one is saved. That is, of course, true. But one also must know who Jesus Christ is. One must understand that belief is not simply a state of being but an action. It produces a change in nature. But most "Anglicans" have made God into the image of themselves, and follow the philosophy of "I'm ok and you're ok." They have forgotten about God's providence and his absolute righteousness. He will judge the creature by its nature. The creature does according to its nature, flesh or spiritual. God doesn't change but man must. God's wrath is on all unrighteousness, but we hope for mercy and not justice.
Glad "Greg" Venables the ABP got this right. But it is long overdue. But, quite short on the uptake.
I note that Mark Thompson from Sydney says the same thing, to wit, "judgment." Yet, neither address the "historical judgment," to wit, liberalism AND Anglo-Romewardizing.
Greg and Mark fall short here, esp.
Greg as he sponsored Anglo-Romewarding as the APA-REC Unity Mass. I saw Greg process at that Mass. I heard Greg preach too. Pretty low-grade stuff, "Low Churchmanship" versus "High Confessional" theology.
We'll see what Mark offers.
Regards,
PV
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