NIGERIA: Anglican Archbishop Flexes Provincial Muscle over Marriage Definition

Sep 30, 2016 by

by David W Virtue, VOL:

The Archbishop of Nigeria, the Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, and the Standing Committee of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, confirmed the Primate as chairman of GAFCON and his place in the Anglican Communion at a recent meeting of church leaders in Awka, at the Cathedral of St. Faith.

The Standing Committee, which is the governing body in the church of Nigeria, blasted those parts of the Anglican Communion “which continue to pursue a revisionist theological agenda and negate the place of God’s Word written.”

“The Church of Nigeria restates its position that Christian marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman. Homosexuality and same sex relationships are not acceptable alternative or lifestyle, as our Church is a Bible believing Church.”

Nigeria is taking its leadership role within the Anglican Communion with African leaders, declaring that in many parts of the Anglican world, apostasy is the new orthodoxy. “The Standing Committee believes now is the right time to ask the Anglican world, ‘who is on the LORD’S side?'”

The Standing Committee resolutely and unanimously supported the Primate of all Nigeria as “he confronts ungodly and unbiblical developments within the Anglican Communion and calls all Anglican Christians, lay and ordained to a life of repentance, holiness and faithful dedication to the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“No voice that speaks in any way contrary to this faith from within Nigeria or abroad speaks in the name of this Church,” a veiled reference to the General Secretary of the Anglican Consultative Council, Josiah Idowu-Fearon, who has endorsed the theology of Archbishop Justin Welby on sexuality. Before being appointed Secretary General of the ACC, he was Archbishop of Kaduna in Nigeria.

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