With GAFCON now only two days away, we're continuing to send
you a
daily email with the latest news and developments.
i) Some users were unable to open the links in yesterday's email. We
apologise for this and in future we will use direct links rather than
embedded links as some email software was unable to handle the format
we sent the email yesterday. Thank you for your patience while we
sort out these technical issues.
ii) Anglicanism Come of Age - Bishop Bob Duncan's plenary address
speech has been released to the press and viewing public. In it he
asks, "We who are gathered here recognize that we are at a turning
point in Anglican history, a place where two roads diverge. One road
is faithful to Jesus' story. The other road is about some other
story...The choice before us is a choice before all Anglicans. It is
just as certainly a choice before the upcoming Lambeth Conference.
Which road will the Anglican Communion take?"
You can read more here -
http://www.gafcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=29
iii) Smiles all round as organising team meet in Jordan - Despite
Archbishop Akinola being unable to join the initial gathering in
Jordan, there were smiles all round as pilgrims met from all over the
world. The conference support team have now moved to Jerusalem where
they are busily preparing for the arrival of over a thousand
Anglicans from all over the globe by Sunday evening.
You can read more here -
http://www.gafcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=29
iv) GAFCON Video Channel goes live - The first videos for GAFCON have
gone live on the website. From the video channel you can see an
introduction to GAFCON from Archbishop Jensen of Sydney, together
with the hopes for the pilgrimage from two Australian participants.
There will be more videos added over the weekend, together with
information on how to watch the live streams from Jerusalem.
You can read more here -
http://www.gafcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=29
As always, we continue to appreciate your prayer at this time.
In His Name,
The GAFCON Team
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JERUSALEM: Eastern and Western Theological Traditions Come Together at GAFCON
Posted by David Virtue on 2008/6/21 1:40:00 (496 reads)
JERUSALEM: Eastern and Western Theological
Traditions Come Together at GAFCON
By David W. Virtue in Jerusalem
www.virtueonline.org
6/21/2008
In Jerusalem, a senior theological advisor to
the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) said that Western and Eastern
theological traditions have united to form a single cohesive understanding of
the gospel that addresses cultural differences.
Canon Dr. Vinay Samuel told a pre-GAFCON gathering of theologians and leaders
that Anglican theology is part of the western theological tradition.
"The churches planted by Anglican missions were nurtured in that
tradition. They have made it their own and have contributed to it by bringing
their distinctive cultural perspective and approaches.
"What we in the workshops of the theological resource teams of GAFCON have
experienced is the blending of the gifts from the North and the South that they
bring to the communion as they share and listen to each other in humility and
work to identify the common ground of faith.
"Africans contributed to the Early Church Fathers. This theological
leadership is drawn from a truly international group of Anglicans. Global North
theologians come from seminaries, which are well resourced. To say that the
Global South have the numbers, but not necessarily the intellectual leadership
is untrue. The bulk of the theological resource team here are from the Global
South most of whom have been trained in the major seminaries and intellectual
institutions in the West."
A senior British clergyman responding to the publication of "The Way, The
Truth and the Life", released here on Friday, said this document renders
the Windsor Report "irrelevant."
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http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/
June 20th, 2008 Posted in News |
Posting may be light for the next week or so, as most of the Anglican Mainstream team will be in Jerusalem at GAFCON - although, time permitting, we will do our best to keep everybody informed.
The GAFCON website, www.gafcon.org, will have daily news.
Your prayers will be very much welcomed.
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http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/06/19/gafcon-‘will-set-the-future-for-the-church’/
Gafcon ‘will set the future for the Church’
June 19th, 2008 Posted in Global Anglican Future Conference |
By George Conger, CEN
GAFCON will prove to be “one of the most important events in the
next two or three decades” of the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Sydney
has predicted, and will set the future course of the Church. In an interview
with Anglican Media Sydney before his departure for the June 22-29 gathering in
Jerusalem, Dr Peter Jensen
said the 1,000 delegates —- including 280 bishops —- will be “working out where
[Anglicans] go from here.” He dismissed suggestions that Gafcon was a stalking
horse for a conservative schism, saying evangelicals “are Anglicans and intend
to
remain so.”
Gafcon, the Global Anglican Future Conference, will work towards shaping an “Anglican future in which the Gospel is uncompromised and Christ-centred mission [is] a top priority,” Dr Jensen, the chairman of the conference’s programme committee, said. He denied charges the conference was a shadow Lambeth Conference, saying the delegates meeting at the Renaissance Hotel near Israel’s Knesset in West Jerusalem were not going to “ape” Lambeth. “This is a conference about he future and we’ve deliberately invited lay people, clergy and others” to ask what it means “to be Anglican,” he said. “How can we best serve God, how can we honour his word and how can we best make his message known? They’re the big themes we’ll be looking at,” Dr Jensen said.
However, Dr Jensen, along with bishops from amongst the largest provinces of
the Communion: Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, will boycott the Lambeth Conference, attending Gafcon in its
place. “We have made other plans to travel to Jerusalem [instead of Lambeth] to
reflect on how best we can do the work of the Lord,” Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi
of Kenya explained last week, citing conservative disquiet with its agenda and
guest list.
In a June 13 statement, the 10-million member Church of Uganda said it too would
skip Lambeth for Gafcon “because the purpose of Lambeth is for fellowship among
Bishops, and our fellowship has been broken with the American church.” “We are
not going to pretend by going to Lambeth that we are in fellowship” with the
Episcopal Church. “We are not. What they have done is a very serious thing, and
what the Archbishop of Canterbury has done in inviting them is grievous and
we want them to know that,” the Ugandan Church said.
Jockeying amongst conservatives for control of the Gafcon message has been intense with some Americans calling for a Canterbury- less Anglican Communion, Ugandans and Australians pushing for a reformed Communion, as well as supporters of federal central executive ranged against those seeking a looser confederated polity. However, a three-day pre-conference meeting at a Jordanian Dead Sea resort beginning June 19 will seek to smooth over the cracks in the conservative façade, allowing the main conference to focus its work.
From the Church of England, the Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali and the Bishop of Lewes, the Rt RevWallace Benn will attend the gathering, as will bishops, clergy and lay leaders from 25 other countries.
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