More from David Virtue on ACC -14

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5/16/2009

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

The Anglican Consultative Council-14 conference meeting in Jamaica ended not with love, joy, unity, peace and good will among men (and women), but with chaos, turmoil, uncertainty and the realization that the Anglican Communion is in deep trouble, even dying, with little hope of its resurrection from the spiritual dead.

Devious attempts to keep out the fourth moratorium on the "cessation of litigation", (aimed at the Episcopal Church) succeeded with everything being sent to a working party set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury which will report back to the ACC and thence to the provinces for a final, worked over and rewritten Covenant.

The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, said that bishops had a moral and fiduciary responsibility to protect church assets and that the future of many of their clergy and congregations is threatened by it. She was supported by the Archbishop of Wales, Dr. Barry Morgan.

I have written a concluding analysis of the 10-day long conference where the greatest deficit was truth itself. For the moment, there will be no Covenant and the future of the Anglican Communion is bleaker now than ever. Global South bishops and archbishops were livid at the manipulations by the liberals and said so. What they will take back to the archbishops, one can only imagine.

We also learned that the Listening Process on human sexuality will continue in an enhanced form, funded by the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, initially until the end of 2011. I have critiqued this at length in today's digest. This process is designed to keep pansexualists at the table and to dilute the influence of the orthodox. It won't work. No one can broker sexual sin into the church without the cancer cells of sexual promiscuity infecting the whole body. God is not mocked., TEC, and in time, the Anglican Communion will reap what it is sowing.

A changing of the guard saw the leadership of the ACC move from ultra-liberal Auckland Bishop John Paterson to the evangelical Bishop of Southern Malawi, The Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga. The Church of England's lay representative, Elizabeth Paver, was elected vice-chair.

The ACC elected to its Standing Committee The Rev. Ian Douglas, clerical representative of the Episcopal Church; (liberal) Anthony Fitchett, lay representative of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia; (liberal) Dato Stanley Isaacs, lay representative of the Province of South East Asia; (conservative) Bishop Azad Marshall, episcopal representative of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. (conservative). They were chosen from a field of 11 candidates.

The primatial members of the Joint Standing Committee are Phillip Aspinall of the Anglican Church of Australia, (liberal); Mouneer Anis of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, (conservative); Henry Orombi of the Province of Uganda, (conservative);, Barry Morgan of the Church in Wales, (liberal); and Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church (liberal). Those members could not vote in the election. The primatial members are allowed to vote on most other ACC matters.

According to a list of provincial contributions asked and received, the Episcopal Church is the second-largest giver to the ACC after the Church of England. Together the two churches paid the ACC 768,903 pounds ($1,167,126) of the nearly 1.2 million it received. The total requested was 1,568,300 pounds sterling.

The Anglican Consultative Council also reaffirmed its two-state solution for Israel and , Palestine.

UK Homosexual leader Colin Coward of Changing Attitude again repeated (as he did the first time in Alexandria) that he knew of several Primates in the Anglican Communion who are homosexual, but when pressed to name them, refused to do so. So why have they not outed themselves and spared the communion much pain, anguish and doubt?

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