The Fate Of The Episcopal Church In The Anglican Communion...?
Tensions continue to rise between the Episcopal Church, USA (ECUSA) and the worldwide Anglican Communion. Some fear that the ECUSA, which already enjoys great Independence and "autonomy" may separate from the wider Communion, whether by expulsion or by leaving.
Additionally, many conservative Episcopalians are individually leaving the ECUSA and joining more traditional denominations (Catholic, Orthodox).
Is it possible for the Communion to resolve its conflicts and bring everyone back together into their Anglican family?
It is not possible, so long as the one believes in "traditional values" and the other insists on having an openly homosexual, and sexually active, Bishop.
You mean their Catholic family? If your ancestors were Christian then they were Catholic. Anglicans formed to get away from the Church of England but they still follow many Catholic doctrines. I think that they should join back into the church formed by Christ not man.
It just goes to show that you can't "water down" Christianity and expect true believers
to go with it.
There are certain moral concepts which
are not flexible, otherwise the entire system
is relative. This is such an instance.
The Anglican Church has expressed a continual desire for unity and has bent over backward to allow ECUSA to back down from their heretical views. Anglican Churches are now sprouting up in the USA and are rapidly growing from an influx of Episcopalians who wish to return to the orthodox faith.
The issues regarding homosexuality and gay clergy will not be resolved until the Episcopal communion disavows their current stance and return to the Apostolic and Biblical doctrine of the Faith.
Homosexuality is a lifestyle that is in direct conflict with scripture and the teachings of the church fathers. There is not any Biblical premise for allowing gay clergy and to promote any other view is false doctrine.
As Christians, we do not hate or dislike homosexuals. We just believe that their lifestyle is a sin as it is described in the Bible and as such, is irreconcilable to scripture.
Henry VIII only wanted to marry another woman when he separated himself from the Pope in the 1480's.
520+ years later, the gay-supporting ECUSA wants to do the same thing. Let them separate and see where they wind up. As for the Anglican communion, it would be nice to see them vanish completely for allowing apostasy with the ECUSA. Rowan Williams supports gay marriage; he just doesn't have the public face to advocate this view in a country whose monarch gave him his existence in the first place.