Anglican Mainstream

After the Press Conference, Bishop Martyn Minns of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America who was attending the Primates Meeting with press credentials was surrounded by the Press. He commented:

This was a recognition of the division within the Episcopal Church. I believe they are trying to recognise a serious problem. The fact that the gospel is in the Covenant I am pleased at.

This communique is a serious recognition there is a difficulty. That is important. I hope Bishop Peter Lee of Virginia will recognise this.

Question: Will TEC stop same-sex blessings?

That is up to the EC to decide. These are very hard questions. Are they are part of mainstream Anglicanism?

We are not intruders. Our place has been recognised and explained in a better way than before. What we are doing is recognised as a valid Anglican Communion ministry. This encourages us to continue our ministry and flourish. We are really about showing the love of God for people.

The Anglican Communion is recognising the serious break in the TEC. It recognises that CANA does the work of the gospel. We want to be a gospel centred church.

What are the next steps? All of us have to go back and do the work of the church. We have to look at the document. We need to read it and understand it.

I do not want to see thousands of Christians evicted from their homes and churches. We want a process of mediation. We never started this. This is their initiative.

The primates who refused to take communion with Katharine Jefferts Schori take the Eucharist very seriously. They refused to take communion because their churches are in broken communion.. They are broken right now.

Martin Minns was interviewed by Anglican TV.

What is the most exciting part of this?

I am pleased that the AC leadership has faced into the seriousness of this.
CANA and AMiA are valid expressions of Anglican Life and need to be part of the solution.

These primates are world leaders and are used to sitting in meetings with people with whom they disagree. I was not at all surprised that they would behave themselves.

In Virginia there are legal actions. They primates are saying that all legal actions should stop. I hope so. The Presiding Bishop initiated the legal actions and she has signed on to a document that says that she will stop them.

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