By Robin G. Jordan
In his October Pastoral Letter GAFCON Primates’ Council Chairman Iliud Wabukala is
unrestrained in his glowing praise of the Anglican Church in North America. He
goes on to use as justification for the GAFCON and Global South Primates’
acceptance of Archbishop Welby’s invitation to a Primates’ meeting in January what
he perceives to be happening in the ACNA.
Archbishop Wabukala gives every appearance of basing his appraisal
of the Anglican Church in North America on a few showcase ACNA gatherings to
which he has been invited.
Has he taken time to examine To Be a Christian: An Anglican Catechism and the rites and services of
the proposed ACNA Prayer Book? Both the ACNA catechism and the proposed ACNA
Prayer Book depart from the teaching of the Bible and the doctrinal and worship
principles of the Anglican formularies. Both countenance unreformed Catholic
teaching and practices.
Has he considered the implications of the formal adoption of
the ACNA catechism and the proposed ACNA Prayer Book—how it would exclude from
the Anglican Church in North America clergy and congregations faithful to authentic
historic Anglicanism, to the Bible and the Anglican formularies?
If the GAFCON movement really stands for the restoration of
the Bible and the gospel to the heart of the Anglican Communion, then it needs
to take a good, hard look at the jurisdiction that it birthed.
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