Church Society calls for exclusion of episcopal church
-16/9/03
The Church Society has written to Primates in the Church of England calling for the
Church Society calls for exclusion of episcopal church
-16/9/03
The Church Society has written to Primates in the Church of England calling for the exclusion of the Episcopal Church, following its decision to consecrate gay clergyman Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.
Labelling the Episcopal church a “sect” it calls the decision to appoint Gene Robinson “heretical” and says that the episcopal church needs to “repent” for what it has done.
Primates will hold an “emergency” meeting in October to discuss the situation that recent controversies over Jeffrey John and Gene Robinson have created.
The Church Society, is the oldest evangelical body in the Church of England, and known for its hard-line views on issues of sexual ethics. Saying that it believes “now is the time for action not for more talk” in a press release which accompanied the letter he Society points to its track record of “consistently opposing liberalism and revisionist agenda”.
Appealing to tradition the Society says that the “underlying issue is the authority of the Bible and whether churches today feel able to deviate from practices and beliefs that Christians through the ages have recognised as clearly taught in Scripture.”
The letter calls on the primates “to act decisively” stating; “The recent action by the Episcopal Church of the USA in agreeing to consecrate Gene Robinson is not an isolated incident but it serves to show how that body acting corporately has set themselves outside historic Christianity. The denomination has become a (North American) sect.”
“It is therefore imperative that the Primates should now exclude ECUSA from the instruments of the Anglican Communion. It is essential that they are informed that their action is heretical and that they, as a denomination, have put themselves outside the fellowship of those who embrace and hold fast to the faith which we have received.”
“Our longing is that such an act of discipline would lead those who have erred to repent and return to the
fold of those who proclaim the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”
In the letter the reject the idea that those who hold differing views on homosexuality can exist side by side in the church.
“Any notion of parallel jurisdiction in the US should be firmly resisted.” the letter states.
“The decay and decline of the Church of England in recent decades illustrates the dangers all too clearly of failing to oppose error and immorality.”
Church Society calls for exclusion of episcopal church
-16/9/03
The Church Society has written to Primates in the Church of England calling for the exclusion of the Episcopal Church, following its decision to consecrate gay clergyman Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.
Labelling the Episcopal church a “sect” it calls the decision to appoint Gene Robinson “heretical” and says that the episcopal church needs to “repent” for what it has done.
Primates will hold an “emergency” meeting in October to discuss the situation that recent controversies over Jeffrey John and Gene Robinson have created.
The Church Society, is the oldest evangelical body in the Church of England, and known for its hard-line views on issues of sexual ethics. Saying that it believes “now is the time for action not for more talk” in a press release which accompanied the letter he Society points to its track record of “consistently opposing liberalism and revisionist agenda”.
Appealing to tradition the Society says that the “underlying issue is the authority of the Bible and whether churches today feel able to deviate from practices and beliefs that Christians through the ages have recognised as clearly taught in Scripture.”
The letter calls on the primates “to act decisively” stating; “The recent action by the Episcopal Church of the USA in agreeing to consecrate Gene Robinson is not an isolated incident but it serves to show how that body acting corporately has set themselves outside historic Christianity. The denomination has become a (North American) sect.”
“It is therefore imperative that the Primates should now exclude ECUSA from the instruments of the Anglican Communion. It is essential that they are informed that their action is heretical and that they, as a denomination, have put themselves outside the fellowship of those who embrace and hold fast to the faith which we have received.”
“Our longing is that such an act of discipline would lead those who have erred to repent and return to the
fold of those who proclaim the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.”
In the letter the reject the idea that those who hold differing views on homosexuality can exist side by side in the church.
“Any notion of parallel jurisdiction in the US should be firmly resisted.” the letter states.
“The decay and decline of the Church of England in recent decades illustrates the dangers all too clearly of failing to oppose error and immorality.”