Anglican Mainstream

 
GAFCON is a call to vision and action based firmly on the ‘faith once delivered to the saints’ and revealed in Scripture, to reform the church and transform persons, communities and societies through the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What might GAFCON and the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans mean for your Church?

1. It affirms our identity
GAFCON reminds us we belong to a large, vital, growing, diverse, faithful global Anglican family; a family we can be proud of; a family which wants to be united, not just by common links to Canterbury but by the doctrine which is revealed in Scripture. GAFCON is not schism, nor a church within a church, we are not splitting or breaking away from the Anglican communion. Instead, GAFCON creates a Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans which affirms the Jerusalem Declaration, a statement of the core of simple Christianity as we Anglicans have received it.

2. It offers Accountability and Order
GAFCON is about the renewal of Anglicanism. It address the sickness of the communion and the failure of the communion structures to deal with that sickness by creating three new realities:
a. The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans
b. The Jerusalem Declaration
c. The Primates’ Council
At the heart of GAFCON is the robust restatement of authentic Anglicanism in the Jerusalem Declaration.

3. It is a Movement not a Meeting
More than a joyful face to face encounter with brothers and sisters from around the globe, GAFCON indicates something of the way forward by creating a new confessing Anglican province in North America. And that is just the beginning…

Such endorsements may be recorded at www.gopetition.co.uk/online/20252.html

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