Fort Worth Dean: General Convention is 'Outside the Faith

[Groce]

“We wanted to send a clear message that we are not standing with those who have chosen to walk apart from the Anglican Communion,” Dean Reed said. “We also wanted to communicate the reality of broken communion that exists in this Church,” he said adding that the standing committee expects to put the question of withdrawal to a vote by the annual convention when it meets in November.

“We want to leave the door open to return at some point in the future provided that repentance and amendment of life by The Episcopal Church occurs,” Dean Reed said. “This system is broken. You can pretend that Province 7 is going to reform The Episcopal Church, but it is not. General Convention is essentially an illegal body now. They have stepped outside the [apostolic] faith.”


I am sad to see them go, and I wish I could go with them. This is going to be a major factor in Province 7. If only I lived 100 miles north.

http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=2263

[plaid_pixie]

i'd like to ask a question. why can't bishop Iker and such call a meeting of the house of bishops (of course the revisionists wouldn't attend) and refute the things from gc?

[DeoJuvante]

If Province 7 (I don't know why Americans insist on numbering things instead of naming them) want to leave, it is probably best to cut them loose and let them go.

[plaid_pixie]

but province 7 can't go. at least not as a province, becuase the national church won't let them. they'll do everything they can to take the cathedrals and church property as they can. they won't just let the people go and take our stuff with us, and declare us empty.