GAFCON/FCA refuses Vatican offer

The Primates Council of Global Anglican Future Conference/Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON/FCA) has issued a press release refusing the Vatican offer of an Apostolic Constitution which allows Anglicans/Episcopalians a way to become Roman Catholics and retain some Anglican rites.


The Primates Council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON/FCA) is convinced, however, that Anglicanism has a bright future as long as we remain grounded in the Holy Scriptures and obedient to our Lord Jesus Christ’s call to reach the lost and make disciples of all nations teaching them to observe the whole Gospel. We also believe that there is room within our Anglican family for all those who hold true to the ‘faith once delivered to the saints’. We would like to encourage those Anglicans who are considering this invitation from the Roman Catholic Church to recognize that Anglican churches are growing throughout the world in strength and offering a vibrant testimony to the transforming work of Christ.

We are convinced that this is not the time to abandon the Anglican Communion. Our Anglican identity of reformed catholicity, that gives supreme authority to the Holy Scriptures and acknowledgement that our sole representative and advocate before God is the Lord Jesus Christ, stands as a beacon of hope for millions of people. We remain proud inheritors of the Anglican Reformation. This is a time for all Christians to persevere confident of our Lord’s promise that nothing, not even the gates of hell, will prevail against His Church.

Posted by Ann Fontaine on November 10, 2009 2:30 PM | |
Comments (2)

Of course they do not want this deal. Being a bull frog in a pond is much better than being a demoted bishop in an ocean. Besides half of them are uber-calvinists in robes anyway.

FWIW
jimB
Jim Beyer

Posted by jimB [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 10, 2009 2:50 PM

Anglicanism does not give scripture supreme authority in all things. Travers, Cartwright and others pushed for that but Richard Hooker and subsequently Anglicanism restricted the supremacy of authority to those things necessary for salvation. So yes these are mostly uber-Calvinists pretending they won in the 16th century.

Posted by Michael Russell [TypeKey Profile Page] | November 10, 2009 3:37 PM

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