Musings on Archbishop Wabukala's Easter Message to Confessing Anglicans

In his GAFCON Easter Message Archbishop Eliud Wabukala, Primate of Kenya and Chairman of the GAFCON Primates’ Council, makes a remarkable statement: “…confessions of faith, whether they are the ancient catholic creeds or later statements such as the Church of England’s Thirty-nine articles cannot be seen just as historical documents to be reinterpreted as we wish.”

But this is how the Thirty-nine articles are seen not only in the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada but also in the Anglican Church in North America. They are viewed as a relic of the past that contemporary Anglicans can disregard or reinterpret as they choose. For example, the new ACNA catechism distorts the meaning of Article 25.

North America does not have an Anglican province that fully accepts the authority of the Bible and the Anglican formularies. Consequently, it does not have an Anglican province that is truly carrying out the Great Commission. The two are inseparable.