Anglican Communion Again Betrays Christ: Bishops' Answer, 'How about a game of cricket?'

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22621011.post-46959528955902587832008-07-21T12:46:00.000-07:002008-07-21T14:34:02.064-07:00Anglican Communion Again Betrays Christ: Bishops' Answer, 'How about a game of cricket?'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tzto-yFTzFw/SITark-w0qI/AAAAAAAAA-U/XbTNuVrOmUs/s1600-h/Bishop+de+Chickera+opening+sermon+at+Lambeth.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Tzto-yFTzFw/SITark-w0qI/AAAAAAAAA-U/XbTNuVrOmUs/s320/Bishop+de+Chickera+opening+sermon+at+Lambeth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225541909852770978" border="0" /></a>Pictured: Anglican "Bishop" Duleep de Chickera of Colombo gives the opening sermons at Lambeth, explaining why the Anglican Communion must be an "inclusive community." In the Anglican Communion these days, truth really is stranger than fiction. The Lambeth Conference continues, and it is turning out to be as much of a mockery of the Gospel as many had anticipated. In truly British style, a liberal "bishop" from Sri Lanka <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4368209.ece">offered a suggestion</a> to his fellow "bishops" at the Lambeth Conference that they should work out their problems over a game of cricket. Meanwhile, the rest of the Christian world, at least those serious about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, warned the Anglican Communion that further betrayal of the Gospel would result in an even greater isolation of the Anglican Communion from the rest of the Christian world: From Rome, the Cardinal Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone wrote: "New issues that have arisen in our relationship pose a further and grave challenge to the hope for full and visible unity that has been the long-standing goal of our joint ecumenical endeavour."<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tzto-yFTzFw/SITbn2e6NRI/AAAAAAAAA-c/7gqFf1CEOG0/s1600-h/Gene_Robinson.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Tzto-yFTzFw/SITbn2e6NRI/AAAAAAAAA-c/7gqFf1CEOG0/s320/Gene_Robinson.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225542945343157522" border="0" /></a> Incompatible with the Gospel: Episcopal "Bishop" Gene Robinson, actively homosexual, once said of his impending "civil union" with his gay partner that he had, "always dreamed of being a June bride." <blockquote>The Orthodox Church's Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said: "Living as we do in an age of anxiety, at a time of rapid change and sharp controversy, it is often difficult for us as bishops to exercise our diakonia in an unifying way. With all our heart we as Orthodox pray that the present Lambeth Conference will prove to be a council of reconciliation and unity, an occasion for speaking the truth in sincerity and without compromise, yet an occasion for speaking the truth in love." Patriach Alexy of Moscow said: "It seems to me that members of the conference have a very serious task: they have to choose between the traditional, biblical norms of morality and tendencies which consider sin and general permissiveness as manifestations of love and tolerance. That is why there is laid on members of the conference such a great, historic responsibility. "The decisions you will take today are of immense importance for the whole Christian world, for on them, in many ways, depends the future of the relations of many Christian churches and communities within the Anglican Communion." </blockquote> Meanwhile, speaking of truth being stranger than fiction, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article4350682.ece?pgnum=2">check out this story</a> of liberal Episcopal "Bishop" John Chane who actually had the nerve to call conservative Anglican bishops "demonic." So much for "inclusiveness", but then again, isn't that the way liberals always behave? They don't care about inclusiveness; what they really care about is shoving an agenda down peoples' throats, whether they like it or not. If you like it, you're included. If you don't, you're "demonic." By the way, to the "demonic" conservatives in the Anglican Church: What you sew, that also shall you reap. The false doctrine of sola scriptura, taken to its logical conclusion, leads to this. Separation from the living authority of the Catholic Church leads to this, the substitution of private conscience for Revelation and the authority of those appointed by Jesus Christ to govern His true Church until He returns. Will you any longer be fooled by the deceptive "via media" of the Anglican Communion, which has now become a "via extrema" instead? There is no via media in Christianity. <blockquote>"Scio opera tua quia neque frigidus es neque calidus utinam frigidus esses aut calidus sed quia tepidus es et nec frigidus nec calidus incipiam te evomere ex ore meo." </blockquote> He who has ears to hear, let him hear.Aristotlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09114128425760261308noreply@blogger.com