ACL Celebrates Launch of FCA Australia

The Anglican Church League sponsored the launch of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), Australia at Scot’s church, Melbourne on 26 March 2015.

The ACL’s President, Gav Poole, spoke at the launch reception —

“The ACL is a grassroots movement made up of lay and clergy members. We promote ministry that is reformed, protestant and evangelical.

By reformed we mean ministry that has its genesis in the sixteenth century reformers who recaptured the Biblical faith that we are saved through faith in Christ alone and that God is sovereign in life and salvation.

By protestant, we protest Biblical aberrations, name and warn against false teaching. Our unity is in the gospel, not structure and institution.

By evangelical, we fully trust in the powerful gospel of Jesus Christ which provides the only solution to human rebellion. The gospel is not just one of many messages but our only one.

This week, as we seek solutions to our many struggles, please be encouraged that faithful, clear and bold proclamation of the gospel along with earnest prayer to the Lord of the harvest is always rewarded.

One of the goals of the ACL is to promote the evangelical character of the Sydney diocese. Like it or not, the Sydney diocese is what it is today largely due to the work of the ACL.

It is a testimony to the fact that we can achieve far more together than apart.

Is a privilege to sponsor tonight’s event. The establishment of FCA Australia is recognition that we are not immune to the challenges of the wider communion.

The ACL celebrates this launch and joins with you in praying for the newly formed FCA Australia board.

Thank you for the opportunity to sponsor this event.”

Also see
FCA underway
Launch of FCA Australia
Anglican Church League: About Us

With the Anglican Church League sponsoring its launch, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Australia is off to a much better start than its North American counterpart. The FCA North America is too closely tied to the Anglican Church in North America, which in actuality does not stand for what the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans stands for. Anglicans who are biblical and Protestant in their stance and Reformed and evangelical in their doctrine have a place in GFCA but not in the ACNA, which has systematically rejected in its doctrinal statements the biblical and Protestant stance and Reformed and evangelical doctrine of authentic historic Anglicanism. 

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