Will the Real Schismatics Stand Up
http://www.anglicancommuniondioceses.org/signatures.asp
There has been a lot of talk of schism lately. As the new network of Anglican Communion Dioceses in North America forms, the corportists (those who see themselves Episcopalians first, Christians second) claim that conservative Anglicans in the US and Canada are the makers of schism. As such the signatories to the new Network Charter, linked to above, must be schismatics. Well I am a signatory to the charter, and have thus joined the new network, whose goal is to become Anglicanism in North America.
So are we schismatics? Yes we are. We are schismatics from the Episcopal Church (.02% of the Christian world?). We are in schism with a church that in its official positions has denied the gospel, the catholic faith, and early Christian doctrine and ethics, separating itself from the wider Christian world for a rather modern agenda. We are schismatics from modernist American religion, from a denomination that has declined at a rapid pace in the last 30 years. We are schismatics from agendists who have ignored tradition, thus excluding our ancestors, causing the ECUSA and other mainline churches to plunge into the toilet of public influence and relevance. Instead, despite the claims otherwise from those in charge, the Episcopal Church has no influence in our culture, whether morally, spiritually, or politically. Thus we are in schism with irrelevance.
However, remember that the Episcopal church is itself in schism with the Anglican Communion, as well as cut off from dialogue with other branches of the catholic Church (Orthodox and Roman Catholics have suspended or downgraded talks). We in the new network are breaking from ECUSA to be united to the Anglican Communion and in dialogue with the rest of the world. This is not separation over a mere doctrinal or moral ssue. This is about breaking from a regional church that has acted against the advising and wisdom of tradition and the catholic world. I cannot support the hubris of the Episcopal Church toward the Christian world, its unilateralism, no matter what I personally think about practicing gay bishops, or what agenda I might hold. As such, we in the network are in schism with schism, which makes us not schismatics, but catholics.
http://www.anglicancommuniondioceses.org/signatures.asp
There has been a lot of talk of schism lately. As the new network of Anglican Communion Dioceses in North America forms, the corportists (those who see themselves Episcopalians first, Christians second) claim that conservative Anglicans in the US and Canada are the makers of schism. As such the signatories to the new Network Charter, linked to above, must be schismatics. Well I am a signatory to the charter, and have thus joined the new network, whose goal is to become Anglicanism in North America.
So are we schismatics? Yes we are. We are schismatics from the Episcopal Church (.02% of the Christian world?). We are in schism with a church that in its official positions has denied the gospel, the catholic faith, and early Christian doctrine and ethics, separating itself from the wider Christian world for a rather modern agenda. We are schismatics from modernist American religion, from a denomination that has declined at a rapid pace in the last 30 years. We are schismatics from agendists who have ignored tradition, thus excluding our ancestors, causing the ECUSA and other mainline churches to plunge into the toilet of public influence and relevance. Instead, despite the claims otherwise from those in charge, the Episcopal Church has no influence in our culture, whether morally, spiritually, or politically. Thus we are in schism with irrelevance.
However, remember that the Episcopal church is itself in schism with the Anglican Communion, as well as cut off from dialogue with other branches of the catholic Church (Orthodox and Roman Catholics have suspended or downgraded talks). We in the new network are breaking from ECUSA to be united to the Anglican Communion and in dialogue with the rest of the world. This is not separation over a mere doctrinal or moral ssue. This is about breaking from a regional church that has acted against the advising and wisdom of tradition and the catholic world. I cannot support the hubris of the Episcopal Church toward the Christian world, its unilateralism, no matter what I personally think about practicing gay bishops, or what agenda I might hold. As such, we in the network are in schism with schism, which makes us not schismatics, but catholics.
