A New Covenant-One we can depend on - Phil Ashey
A New Covenant-One we can depend on - Phil Ashey
By Phil Ashey
March 30, 2012
"'The time is coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them', declares the LORD. 'This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,' says the LORD. 'I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people..." (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Dear Friends in Christ,
The Anglican Covenant is dead-or at least dead in the water throughout the Anglican Communion. On Saturday March 24, the mother church of the Anglican Communion, the Church of England, voted by a majority of dioceses to reject the proposed Covenant that was designed, in some sense, to hold the world-wide Anglican Communion together amid divisions over homosexuality and same sex unions.
The proposed Anglican Covenant was the institutional response to the unilateral decisions of The Episcopal Church (TEC) and The Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) to consecrate a partnered homosexual priest as a bishop of the church (and to proceed with further consecrations), and to bless same sex-unions, in flagrant violation of Biblical and Anglican Communion teaching against such actions (1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10 ). Direct and meaningful discipline of TEC and ACoC was postponed again and again, despite the call of the Primates Meeting in 2006 in Tanzania, in order to pursue the Anglican Covenant process.
The covenant was first proposed in 2004 as the principal outcome of the Windsor Report. For eight years the Archbishop of Canterbury has made this the hallmark of his leadership-despite at least three occasions which I wrote about last week and in our Anglican Perspective where he directly or indirectly de-railed the Covenant process himself. For eight years enormous time, effort and money has been spent in good faith by many leaders and provinces of the Anglican Communion to enact this Covenant. Now there is very little reason for other provinces signing the Covenant, because the mother church of the Anglican Communion will itself no longer be in the "first tier" of Anglicans supporting the doctrine and discipline meant to hold the Communion together.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Phil Ashey
March 30, 2012
"'The time is coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them', declares the LORD. 'This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,' says the LORD. 'I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people..." (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
Dear Friends in Christ,
The Anglican Covenant is dead-or at least dead in the water throughout the Anglican Communion. On Saturday March 24, the mother church of the Anglican Communion, the Church of England, voted by a majority of dioceses to reject the proposed Covenant that was designed, in some sense, to hold the world-wide Anglican Communion together amid divisions over homosexuality and same sex unions.The proposed Anglican Covenant was the institutional response to the unilateral decisions of The Episcopal Church (TEC) and The Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) to consecrate a partnered homosexual priest as a bishop of the church (and to proceed with further consecrations), and to bless same sex-unions, in flagrant violation of Biblical and Anglican Communion teaching against such actions (1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10 ). Direct and meaningful discipline of TEC and ACoC was postponed again and again, despite the call of the Primates Meeting in 2006 in Tanzania, in order to pursue the Anglican Covenant process.
The covenant was first proposed in 2004 as the principal outcome of the Windsor Report. For eight years the Archbishop of Canterbury has made this the hallmark of his leadership-despite at least three occasions which I wrote about last week and in our Anglican Perspective where he directly or indirectly de-railed the Covenant process himself. For eight years enormous time, effort and money has been spent in good faith by many leaders and provinces of the Anglican Communion to enact this Covenant. Now there is very little reason for other provinces signing the Covenant, because the mother church of the Anglican Communion will itself no longer be in the "first tier" of Anglicans supporting the doctrine and discipline meant to hold the Communion together.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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