Saturday, July 18, 2009

Episcopal Church Goes Boom and Causes Schism

It is pretty much in the cards now. It has happened. I will have much more on this later today. See from the U.K. Times The Americans know this will end in schism

I think finally the American Episcopal Church has overreached so much that the worldwide Anglican Communion will take action.

I can not imagine the Diocese of South Carolina will stay in the TEC structure. That is a substantial loss of both membership and of course historic consequence to the American Episcopal Church. In the end there can not be two Anglican Churches in the USA. As the Midwest Conservative Journal so well points out at DEUCE-9 OFF-SUIT AND ALL-IN

Recognition of ACNA prior to General Convention might have made a difference. It might have strengthened the hand of the Communion Partner bishops and gotten the Episcopal Organization to stand down.
But now that TEO has shed the last vestiges of the Christian religion, recognition solves nothing and changes nothing. Indeed, it may even make things worse.
Leave aside the fact that ACNA itself is an internally-iffy proposition. Forget the fact that Anglican Christianity will contain two churches with mutually-exclusive messages.
All allowing ACNA into the club achieves is to insure that North American Anglicanism will be in a perpetual state of war.
The Episcopalians and the North American Anglicans are not only at cross-purposes with one another, they are actively hostile to one another
. Once the lawsuits are settled one way or the other, ACNA will spend a good deal if not most of its time issuing position papers explaining why what we preach is the Gospel of Christ and what they preach is not
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I think this very true. In my own neck of the woods I cannot imagine that the Diocese of Western Louisiana(that takes in a good part of the State) is going to go into schism with the worldwide communion. There is sad history being done in front of our eyes but it is for the best.

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